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Today in Focus

Prince Harry versus the Mirror

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Prince Harry became one of the most senior royals ever to give evidence in an English court this week. Jim Waterson reports from the high court in London where tabloid phone hacking was back under the microscope. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.6

Today, the prince who testified, Harry gets his day in court and he battles with a British media.

0:18.6

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The build up to this trial has been very long and then very fast. You have had years,

1:36.1

literally years since Harry filed this case. It was in late 2019 when I was in the Guardian

1:41.5

Newsroom and it dropped that Prince Harry was going to sue both the publisher of the mirror

1:46.5

and the publisher of the Sun over alleged phone hacking.

1:53.4

And it was a complete break with Preston and we didn't know what was going on and we were

1:56.9

completely blindsided. It came out of nowhere. And for years there's been these phone hacking cases

2:03.5

that were the result of the Guardian's reporting back in the 2000s and early 2010s.

2:09.6

And most of the cases haven't had much coverage, so Harry getting involved was extraordinary.

2:14.0

Tonight Prince Harry firing another shot in his war with the tabloids. Buckingham Palace

2:19.0

confirming lawsuit have been filed after the illegal interception of voicemails.

2:23.4

Harry accusing the owners of the Sun and the Daily Mirror of intercepting voicemail message.

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