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This is a global player original podcast. We are back now with Prince Harry preparing to become

the first British royal to take the stand in more than a century. He's part of a lawsuit against

British tabloids accused of phone hacking.

ABC's Lama Hassan is... America is getting very excited about Prince Harry appearing as a witness

in court in this phone hacking trial against the mirror. Here in London, a more quintessentially

British take on an encounter that happened in court.

Well, I'm taking a day off my normal parliamentary sketchwriting and political sketchwriting duties

to spend one day in court 15 at the Rolls Building with Prince Harry.

I thought, given that it was going to be a two and a half hour stretch,

that I should nip to the loo beforehand.

And I asked where the gents were, and I was sort of wandered down there.

And there was this big burly bloke outside.

And I kind of thought, that's strange.

Why have they got a bloke guarding the

door? But I just pushed past him and he didn't stop me and I wandered in. And there was Prince Harry

washing his hands. And we kind of looked at each other and I said, hello. He said, hello. And then, as men do in the toilets, we then avoided each other's

eyes and went our separate ways. He was genuinely affable. He didn't look at all upset to have

had his morning ablutions interrupted.

That was John Crace.

Normally parliamentary sketchwriter of The Guardian.

Today, court reporter, a nearly witness to, well, something else from Prince Harry.

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