Tuesday, Prince Harry showed up in a court in London to give testimony in his case against a publisher of a tabloid newspaper over suspected illegal information gathering.
Banks of photographers and television teams met the 38-year-old Duke of Sussex as he arrived in a black SUV, but he said nothing to the waiting reporters.
Prince Harry took to the witness stand on Tuesday in a U.K. courtroom, becoming the first British royal to do so in more than a century. He was grilled by the defense team in his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the publisher of The Daily Mirror. Harry accuses the publisher of using unlawful techniques on an “industrial scale” to get scoops.
In his 50-page written witness statement and a day of cross-examination from MGN’s lawyer Andrew Green, Harry said he had been targeted since 1996 when he was a schoolboy. He said he had experienced hostility from the press since he was born and accused the tabloids of playing “a destructive role in his growing up”.
