Prince Harry gets emotional in court - The Latest
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | I think this is really important for Harry. |
| 0:14.0 | He wanted to have his day in court. |
| 0:16.0 | And a big part of this is the optics of turning up in the court, facing them down. |
| 0:20.0 | Harry, you feeling confident? |
| 0:22.6 | Good luck, sir. |
| 0:23.6 | Prince Harry has indeed arrived at the High Court in London at his case against the publisher of the Daily Mail. |
| 0:30.6 | On one side of the battlefield is Prince Harry and six of this country's most famous celebrities. |
| 0:36.6 | I think you've got to really see this in the full |
| 0:38.7 | context of Harry as a life lived in front of a camera lens, as a life lived and played out in |
| 0:45.3 | newspapers, right? It's well known that Harry thinks that newspapers were partly responsible |
| 0:50.1 | for the death of his mother. Prince Harry is back in court in his long-running battle against the tabloid press, |
| 0:56.6 | and this time it's the publisher behind the Daily Mail. |
| 0:59.7 | So what's at stake? |
| 1:00.9 | From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hop. |
| 1:06.3 | I'm joined by Aaron Sharp, senior national news editor. |
| 1:09.7 | Prince Harry has swapped the dappled sunshine and palm trees of Montecito for what feels like an ice blizzard in London to be in a freezing packed courtroom. |
| 1:20.0 | Sounds like it's been really tense this morning as he's taken to the witness stand, a day early, right? Yeah, he's back and he's back for a day of court drama. |
| 1:29.3 | I think this is really important for Harry. |
| 1:31.3 | He wanted to have his day in court. |
| 1:32.3 | So much of this, what he's been campaigning for down the years, |
| 1:35.3 | has been about really bringing tabloid news editors and the tabloid journalists who he feels |
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