Prince Harry returned to court on Wednesday morning for his second day of testimony in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). The media apparatus off the field was, once again, a lot. According to the BBC, dozens of journalists expected to see the prince arrive, which happened around 10:00 am Harry got out of a black Range Rover, said good morning but did not answer questions before entering the Rolls building.

Harry’s questioning by MGN’s lawyer ended late in the morning. During his time, Andrew Green accused Harry of profiteering. We are in the “field of total speculation about the origin of the information,” accused the lawyer.. “No, not at all, I don’t agree,” Harry replied. At issue was a story about the prince’s ex-girlfriend, South African Chelsy Davy, who cites a “palace source.” The prince said that he never discussed details of his relationship with his girlfriend with the palace, so he believes that this source is suspicious and affirms that what is attributed to this description is actually wiretapping. , describes the BBC.

After the lunch break, it was the turn of the prince’s lawyer, David Sherborne, to ask him questions. Harry says he found a tracking device in the car of his ex-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, and claims it was planted by a private investigator he’s accused in other cases. Also a friend of the prince, Mark Dyer, found a tracking device in the car, writes the BBC.

“The press has deceived me all my life, covered up irregularitiesso sitting in a courtroom knowing that the defense has the evidence in front of them and that Mr. Green [advogado do MGN] He says I’m speculating… I don’t know what to say about it,” said the King’s youngest son at the end of his testimony.

Prince Harry finished testifying around 2:30 p.m. However, he remained in court to hear testimony from a former Daily Mirror royal affairs editor, Jane Kerr. This witness was summoned by the MGN.

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the lawyers

Andrew Green KC is known as “the monster” and is famous for “gutting” the witnesses he questions, according to the Telegraph newspaper. The basis of his work are cases related to commerce, banks and insurance companies, however he specializes in the area of ​​fine arts and has already faced auction houses. The lawyer is not impressed by celebrities. I have in my resume several cases that artists oppose their record companies or publishers, as well as how he represented the boxer Lennox Lewis in a case against the promoter Panos Eliades and the soccer coach Alan Pardew when he was a Newcastle coach and he was against the Football Association, in 2013.

On the side of Prince Harry and the other three plaintiffs, David Sherborne leads the legal team. He has already had several celebrities as clients, one of them being Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, but also Tony Blair and Donal J. Trump, all of them in cases related to the press. However, this list of famous names also includes Paul McCartney, Michael Douglas, Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss, Elton John, Harry Styles and, recently, Johnny Depp and Colleen Rooney, wife of footballer Wayne Rooney in a very advertised. in the UK, according to the New York Times.

Sherborne has plenty of experience dealing with the British tabloid press. It was he who represented the plaintiffs in the famous case known as the Leveson Inquiry, which exposed phone hacking practices in Murdoch’s publications in 2012. He is also responsible for the case of Prince Harry against News Group Newspapers (owned by businessman Rupert Murdoch), is say, for two of the three cases that the King’s youngest son has against the British press.

A very media case

After failing to appear in court last Monday, Harry’s testimony began on Tuesday. The prince was in court all day, where after some five hours split between morning and afternoon, he answered questions from MGN lawyer Andrew Green KC. At the time Harry’s testimony began, his witness statement was made public.

“I have felt the hostility of the press since I was born”, said the prince right at the beginning of the interrogation, in one of the phrases that marked the day. Another was one of the phrases extracted from said statement. “Nationally right now, our country is judged by both the state of the press and our government, I think both have hit rock bottom.”

“The press and our government hit rock bottom.” Prince Harry appeared in court to testify

The youngest son of King Carlos III accuses the Mirror Group Newspapers media group, specifically the titles Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, of illegally collecting information about him to write articles. To do this, the prince gathered 33 articles published in the MGN newspapers between 1996 and 2011 to show how the published information could only have been obtained illegally. In the interrogation carried out by the MGN lawyer, in these two days the mentioned articles and the origin of the published information are reviewed. Harry must explain why he believes that the content of these news pieces was obtained through illegal means.

The prince isn’t the only one taking the group to court. He is accompanied by actors Michael Turner and Nikki Sanderson, both from the series Coronation Street, and Fiona Wightman, ex-wife of comedian Paul Whitehouse. They believe that journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People accessed voicemails from friends and family.

This is just one of the cases that Prince Harry has in the British court against the media. In March, the prince made a surprise appearance in London on the first day of the preliminary hearing in a case pitting seven celebrities against the Associated Newspapers group, which owns the Daily Mail newspaper, over alleged wiretapping and payments for confidential information that resulted in “serious intrusions of privacy”. Harry is joined by singer Elton John and her husband David Furnish, as well as actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost.

The third case is against News Group Newspapers and concerns the alleged tapping of the prince’s voicemails by The Sun newspaper in the early 2000s. In this case, the prince provided written testimony alleging that his brother, Prince William, received a “large sum” of money from Rupert Murdoch’s British media group in a secret deal to quietly settle allegations that the royal family’s mobile phones had been hacked in 2020. NGN denies the allegations. accusations.