Prince Harry has rejected a suggestion he wants to be a phone-hacking victim and raised concerns about the level of detail in an article about his visit to a strip club, a court heard on Wednesday.
The denial came as the duke during his second and final day of evidence as part of his case against the publisher of the Daily Mirror over alleged unlawful information gathering (UIG).
Towards the end of his evidence, Harry appeared to choke back tears as he talked about the experience of giving evidence for a day and a half, saying: “It’s a lot.”
At one point, a lawyer for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) accused Harry of wanting to be a phone-hacking victim and asked if he would be disappointed if he wasn’t, to which Harry responded: “Nobody wants to be phone hacked.”
Harry also said an article about a trip to Spearmint Rhino strip club in 2006 – headlined ‘Chel shocked’ -contained “very specific” information about a conversation with then girlfriend Chelsy Davy. He also said an article in 2008 concerning his withdrawal from Afghanistan was likely to have been sourced from UIG and that it had impacted his mental health.
MGN began Harry’s witness box appearance yesterday by apologising to him for an article published in 2004 about thehis visit to a London nightclub that it accepts was the product of unlawful information gathering. MGN denies all other wrongdoing.
Read all the key updates from Harry’s evidence below:
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MGN has said: “Where historical wrongdoing has taken place, we have made admissions, take full responsibility and apologise unreservedly, but we will vigorously defend against allegations of wrongdoing where our journalists acted lawfully.”
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