Although the prince wasn't successful attendance for the archetypal time of trial, his lawyer Barrister David Sherborne addressed the London court about the alleged harassment of his lawsuit from the media.

"We each retrieve the images of him walking down his mother's coffin," helium shared. "From that infinitesimal on, arsenic a schoolboy and from his vocation successful the service and arsenic a young big helium was subjected, it was clear, to the astir intrusive methods of obtaining his idiosyncratic information. It besides caused large challenges successful his narration with his ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy, and made him fearfulness for his and her safety."

Harry and Chelsy dated connected and disconnected from 2004 to 2010, and according to Harry's lawyer, she decided that "a royal beingness was not for her" arsenic a effect of alleged unlawful accusation gathered by MGN journalists.

Harry's case, which was filed in 2019, involves 148 articles published betwixt 1996 and 2010, according to BBC. He is also expected to instrumentality the basal successful June—marking the archetypal clip successful past a elder royal volition beryllium a witnesser successful court.

The Mirror Group Newspapers' apology comes a period aft it was made public that Prince William had privately settled successful the phone-hacking case.

Harry's ineligible squad stated successful tribunal documents obtained by Reuters—which NBC News has not independently verified—that a woody was reached betwixt the Rupert Murdoch-owned institution and Buckingham Palace connected behalf of Prince William.

The document stated successful part, per the outlet, "It is important to carnivore successful caput that successful responding to this bid by NGN to forestall his claims going to trial, the claimant has had to marque nationalist the details of this concealed agreement, arsenic good arsenic the information that his brother, His Royal Highness, Prince William, has precocious settled his assertion against NGN down the scenes."