Prince Harry is fighting a legal battle against Associated Newspapers.
Harry, along with several other public figures, has sued ANL. PDO
Prince Harry testifies for third time in court against Associated Newspapers (ANL) lawsuit, says Hello Magazine.
Associated Newspapers is the publisher of the British newspapers Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday.
According to the magazine, Harry was on the verge of tears when giving a statement in which he described how the magazines have made his wife’s life “absolute misery”.
Harry is part of a group that has sued ANL for illegal data collection. The group includes Elton John and his spouse David Furnish, campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence, politician Simon Hughes and actresses Sadie Frost and Elizabeth Hurley.
ANL is accused of, among other things, eavesdropping. ANL has denied all the allegations.
Harry answered questions from ANL’s lawyer for about two and a half hours on Wednesday, followed by his own lawyer David Sherborne asked how the process felt.
– It’s completely wrong to put us through this again when all we wanted was an apology and accountability. This is a terrible experience, Harry said in the witness stand.
– They continue to chase me. They have made my wife’s life a complete misery.
Harry left the courtroom blowing his nose and wiping his eyes. He described the legal battle as a “repeated traumatic experience” and “to renew the past”.
– The claim that I don’t have the right to privacy is disgusting, he added.
In his earlier testimony, Harry described feeling as if his every move, thought and emotion was being watched and watched. He also said that this caused mistrust, suspicion, and made him paranoid and isolated.
According to his lawyer, all 14 articles on which Harry was sued between 2001 and 2013 focused mainly and very intrusively on the relationships he was trying to form before meeting his wife Meghan.
Lawyer defending ANL Antony White KC stated in court that the lawsuits were “thin” and filed too late. He defended that the information in more than 50 articles had been obtained “legally and reliably” from journalists, their contacts and previous reports. ANL also denied all alleged illegal data collection, such as voicemail eavesdropping.