Prince Harry is now back in the US after giving evidence in the case last week, and while he won’t be here at the High Court today, he’ll certainly be keeping tabs on proceedings.
He took to the stand on Wednesday to give evidence in court, and was cross-examined by ANL’s legal team for about two-and-a-half hours.
He told the court: “I have never believed that my life is open season to be commercialised by these people.”
Twice during the hearing, the judge Mr Justice Nicklin politely reminded the duke that he did not “have to bear the burden of arguing the case”, but simply had to answer questions put to him. But Harry told him he had had a “bad experience” previously.
Responding after it was put to him that his social circles were “leaky”, Harry said he wanted to make it “absolutely clear” that they were not.
He said ANL had done “a very good job of stripping out all the colour from the situations the claimants have been in” and that stories about his private life were not in the public interest.
Harry’s written witness statement, in which he said he has had an “uneasy relationship” with the press since his mother Princess Diana’s death in 1997, was released to the court.
He said that he did not complain about articles written about him at the time “because of the institution I was in”.
“If you complain, they double down on you, in my experience,” he added.
It was right at the end of his evidence, as he mentioned his wife, Meghan, that he became emotional.
“They continue to come after me, they have made my wife’s life an absolute misery, my Lord,” he said, his voice faltering.
Watch: Prince Harry smiles leaving court
