Prince Harry was recently made to feel “paranoid beyond belief” by alleged unlawful information gathering by the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, a court has heard via BBC.
Prince Harry is among seven claimants including Sir Elton John and Liz Hurley alleging the papers’ publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), committed “grave breaches of privacy” over a 20-year period.
The prince has felt his “every move, thought or feeling was being tracked and monitored just for the Mail to make money out of it”, according to a written submission by his lawyer.
ANL said the duke’s social circle was “known to be a good source of leaks” to the press and has repeatedly denied the claimants’ allegations.
Antony White KC, representing the publisher, said it was “a striking feature of the case that none of the articles were the subject of complaint by the claimants at the time of publication”.
“The pattern of misconduct the claimants seek to establish is simply not made out.”
Joining the duke in bringing the lawsuit against ANL are:
- Actors Liz Hurley and Sadie Frost
- Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish
- Sir Simon Hughes, the former Liberal Democrat MP
- Baroness Doreen Lawrence, a campaigner whose son Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack in south London in 1993
