Duke of Sussex & Others vs ANL: thread 3

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This is the third thread discussing the case Prince Harry (and 6 others) are bringing against the Daily Mail (Associated Newspapers) for alleged unlawful information gathering (UIG).

Thread 1

Thread 2

Since the celebrities have given evidence, there has been limited direct reporting from court; what there is has mostly been on this link
Sky News link to court case

Thanks for the link @CraftyGin

Thanks @CraftyGin

Archive link Telegraph https://archive.is/MlkYf

Archive link Independent https://archive.is/hVUnp

Archive link Yahoo https://archive.is/ogPi0

Archive link Express and Star https://archive.is/2cGNI

Even the Guardian is reporting on Rebecca English’s evidence today.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/02/daily-mail-royal-editor-denies-using-private-investigator-to-blag-harry-information

Agree @binkie163.

The fact the information has been sent to a couple of people, and wasn't used, indicated it wasn't information that was originally requested by the DM.
The line of questioning also suggests that, as there's no indication that they have evidence (e.g. emails) of any request.

I would love to read the original article to see how it was written. I wonder if it is available anywhere,

Thanks @TheAutumnCrow

Archive link Guardian https://archive.is/nUzis

"Mr Sherborne said Prince Harry had told the court he would not have shared such “intimate information” with strangers"

Does Sherborne really not appreciate how ridiculous this sounds when Harry's done precisely that in his book and interviews?

Okay so he was getting paid then, but the lawyer didn't caveat it with "He might share info for money"; he said Harry doesn't do it full stop, and that makes no sense at all

Thanks for the updates and especially the cut and paste- it is difficult to read links so appreciate all the additional information.

This is the list of articles PH is complaining about - I haven't looked them all up yet

https://archive.is/7TYEk

Have a look in here: Sitemap Archive | Daily Mail Online

You have to search day by day, and try not to fall down a rabbit-hole. There are lots of mentions mid-month, with extensive input from Mr Davy.

@craftygin, thanks so much, haven’t found the Harry one, but it’s an interesting look at headlines around that time.

BBC short report

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxdy01z0r8o

He’s really got a thing about resurrecting his own love life and the names of all his ex girlfriends, hasn’t he?

I’d never heard of some of them. Till now.

What I find interesting is Harry’s (and others) insistence that so much of this super private information must have come from voicemails.

I know it was a different time, but were people really in the habit of ringing people up and leaving lots of detailed and interesting voicemails discussing deeply personal things? Surely it’s far more likely to have been something you got overheard talking about in person, than that you happened to leave a voicemail about it and that voicemail was hacked.

I agree with that, @elessar. And even I knew to change the PIN number for accessing voicemail back then in the early ‘noughties’.

Press Gazette report https://archive.is/A3I2A

Not really relevant to this thread, but I do wonder what would have been the situation for the Sussexes, if they had still been in Jordan when the strikes started.

Also, that little information was shared at the group campfire, but all on voicemail.

Surely that's what you do at campfires - talk and talk into the small hours. That's what happened in my campfire days. You share secrets, tell ghost stories, etc.

It would have been just their luck wouldn't it? I suppose they would have been stuck with everyone else.

They would have thrown a hissy fit at the UK Consulate, and if that didn't work, done the same to the American one

most likely.

Thank you for saying this, as my voicemail memories consist of someone saying it's so and so, call me. No one left long messages.

Too true! , there was a cut off , how many times I ended up with only half my mother’s rambling , I can’t recall.

Actually it’s just their luck that they happened to have got out just before it all kicked off.. Whilst I obviously wish them no harm I do wish they had got stuck there for a bit. It might have taught them a lesson and made them a bit more cautious in the future. Maybe they’d have realised that doing all these tours in the absence of the full protection afforded to official Royal tours through foreign office diplomacy etc is a bit unwise.
As it is I doubt they have given it a thought. 🙄

What a fucked up thing to think let alone say. Anyone else you’d like stuck in a potential war zone or just these two?