Monday, Prince Harry and Elton John appeared in court in London as the attorney for a group of British tabloids prepared to seek the judge to dismiss the lawsuit that the tabloids and several other well-known individuals filed alleging phone tapping and other privacy intrusions.
The Daily Mail, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and Mail.com are owned by the newspaper publisher Associated Newspapers Ltd.’s (ANL), which is accused of using illegal information-gathering techniques by the Duke of Sussex and a half-dozen other prominent people.
Actresses Sadie Frost and Elizabeth Hurley are other plaintiffs in the action, along with singer Elton John and his boyfriend, director David Furnish. Doreen Lawrence, a member of parliament whose son was slain in a racial attack, is the sixth plaintiff.
As a result of “everyone becoming a suspect,” the court heard on Monday, Prince Harry lost or “cut off” friends because he “was misled by the way the pieces were written into believing that those close to him were the source” of publications about him.
Legal arguments will be considered during a four-day preliminary High Court hearing in London that began on Monday. A judge will then decide whether the lawsuit will proceed. Associated Newspapers (ANL) is attempting to resolve the disputes amicably. The charges were “unsubstantiated and highly defamatory claims, based on no reliable evidence,” an ANL representative claimed at the time.
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