Prince Harry Privacy Case: Battle With Mail Owner Begins

By Tom SymondsHome Affairs Correspondent

It's not often that hardened press photographers and film crews are surprised, but when the Duke of Sussex has emerged from a black cab at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday morning, their whispered expletives told their own story.

Prince Harry offered a 'morning, hi guys' to the pack and went to court. He had quietly returned to the UK to make what had clearly been planned as a dramatic entrance.

No one expected him to appear in person for a week of what were billed as complex legal arguments over whether seven people were okay known should be allowed to sue Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Mail headlines.

The Duke's manifesto is clear. As he writes in his book, Spare, "It's about not letting people get away with abuse and lies. Especially the kind of lies that can destroy innocent people."

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