Prince Harry looks set for a courtroom battle with The Sun newspaper’s publisher in the UK. The British royal’s damages claim over allegations of unlawful information gathering can go ahead to trial, a High Court judge has ruled.
The case could be heard next year. However, the Duke of Sussex’s claims of phone hacking were dismissed and won’t form part of the lawsuit.
Prince Harry claims journalists and private investigators working for The Sun and the News of the World have used unlawful methods to obtain information about him.
He made similar claims in his Netflix doc series Harry and Meghan. The News of the World was shuttered in 2011 after it emerged an investigator working for the paper had intercepted voicemails of the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, giving her family false hope she was alive.
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