The trials and tribulations of Harry - thread 2

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Continuation of

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_royal_family/4812092-ph-lost-bid-to-challenge-for-right-to-pay-home-office-for-his-security?page=10&reply=126688485

Colour me confused too

another bear of very little brain here

Yes, @polkadotdalmation . I thought it was multiple claimants all being heard together within one trial. They should all be judged on their own merits but the claimants are hoping that their claims will back each others up and influence the judge.

off the point of the thread …but,

@PicturesOfDogs I’d love this to be heard in front of Judge Judy 🤣🤣🤣

Can you imagine what she’d have said if you’d turned up late because you attended a toddler’s birthday party 😂

While I'm no admirer of Burrell either, let's not forget he's the man for whom the Queen had to lie suddenly remember a conversation in order to keep him out of a witness box

Makes me wonder what he might have said, but if it's something the RF wouldn't have enjoyed it's no wonder he has that smirk on his face all the time ...

Is the comment about FaceTiming his children a joke? He didn't actually say that, did he? In a court of law in the UK? This man who is 5th in line to the throne? I can't believe what I'm reading on here. This didn't really happen, did it?

Puzzledandpissedoff

the queen did that? Was it over the items he stole? I vaguely remember something about that

omg I wanna know what he knows and what keeps that smug smirk on his face! 😆

the queen did that? Was it over the items he stole? I vaguely remember something about that

Her Maj ended the trial with a last minute memory confirming a private meeting she hadn't realised was of significance where he'd informed her he was ladling Diana related valuables into a cardboard box for 'safekeeping'.

All very odd.

That was really, really strange @CathyorClaire

Here you go, MayQueeen:

Thank you 🙏

Omg what a topsy turvy saga 😂

You really couldn’t make it up, could you?

The police recovered 6 of 16 'explosive' tapes from Burrell's house but the rest have 'disappeared' along with another tape Diana apparently made with alleged royal household rape victim George Smith.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/mar/15/monarchy.davidleigh

Who knows what that man actually held?

Love how they’ve reported it, she just happened to remember during a car journey and the prince just so happened to say she should go report it, nothing to do with evading a court appearance 😂

and paul was so honourable keeping it private , until he didn’t, he sung like a canary at the last moment when he was prob feeling v desperate and stressed 😂

is there a musical about his life? I’d so watch it 😆

Someone should have warned Harry that court is no substitute for therapy and rarely offers the undiluted satisfaction of a clear win. For someone who is driven by emotion rather than detail, it is not the best venue to make him happy.

My thought was why would he be discussing the case with a four and two year old? Has he no boundaries? It’s totally inappropriate.

Yeah, I loved the Queen but that was a big, fat, juicy lie. He must know some good stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/06/from-the-gents-to-the-witness-box-harry-has-little-to-say

a fair summary… 🙃

That’s a very compelling, well-written article.

but the court artist!!!

Harry should sue. That is horrific. What did he do to deserve that?

It looks like grant mitchel with hair - to me
anyway 😂

I’m old enough to remember when Grant Mitchell actually had hair…

The closest to it is the the called Paul Burrell a 2 faced shit (I mean he is...). Given that Harry left a voice mail, does that mean it was in fact William that was hacked? It sort of makes sense as William settled out of court so he might have had something concrete on them

I think this is a very good point. Phone hacking means getting (illegal) access to a phone in order to obtain the information on it. Harry's voicemail was left on William's phone

To hack a phone don’t journalists need to know the person’s phone number?

Also how can it be proven that the hacking was done by the press rather than the journalists’ “source”?

From Jan Moir's account in the DM:

It came as no surprise that the prince’s level of truculence seemed to rise as the day progressed – you don’t need a dipstick to gauge the actual depths, but here he is, just the same.

‘Repeat the question,’ he demanded at one point. At other moments, he had trouble locating the evidence on the screen in front of him. ‘It is on the screen in front of you,’ Mr Green told him.

‘It is not,’ said Harry.

‘I think it is,’ said the lawyer.

‘If you say so,’ said Harry, a 38-year-old man who can still locate his inner Kevin the Teenager with distressing ease. Hour after hour, the Harry that emerged in court was a combustible mixture of victimhood and arrogance. The latter often took precedence but his broken side, the damaged side, was never far away.

My favourite exchange of the day was a deeply revealing one over a news item about Harry celebrating his 16th birthday in a Fulham gastropub. The prince was convinced that MGN had got hold of this story by illegal methods. Mr Green suggested that the celebrity chef who worked there might have called the newspaper himself.

‘As a chef, he would be too busy to make that call,’ said Harry. In riposte, Mr Green suggested that he would have other chefs working for him.

‘I have no idea, I have never worked in a kitchen,’ said the prince, somehow managing to contradict himself, behave like an entitled snob and make no sense, all at the same time.

Black belt barrister on You Tube providing quite a forensic review of day 1 for anyone looking for that