William may have been target of Mail publisher blagging, Harry’s lawyer says

The prince and princess of Wales may be the targets of gathering illegal information by the Daily Mail’s publisher, Prince Harry’s lawyers said to the Supreme Court.

Prince William’s 21st birthday party in the mail, potentially “tear” by a special researcher, Catherine’s mobile phone targeted, Harry’s Associated newspapers Limited (Anl) felt a preliminary hearing against Privacy.

Harry is one of the few public figures, including Sir Elton John, Baroness Doreen Lawrence and Elizabeth Hurley – accusing AnL of “cemetery violations of privacy”.

Anl rejected “terrible” and “absurd” many times allegations.

Among them, the houses include allegations of making mistakes, telephone holding and gathering medical and financial information in an honest way.

In written posts, lawyer David Sherborne said that the comprehensive details in a daily e -mail story before Prince William’s birthday party were “obtained through Blagging”.

The invoice said that the Prince was one of the ‘African story Royal Party ENQs’ dated August 25, 2003 a few months after the African themed party in June.

Sherborne added that a separate record has shown that a journalist has assigned a “mobile phone transformation” about Catherine and a special researcher to provide phone numbers from a “family and friends” list.

The hearing of Wednesday saw that both sides went to the trial at the beginning of 2026 and discussed which allegations should be included in the allegations.

Two of the other plaintiffs, Sir Elton’s husband David Furnish and actress Sadie Frost, while Prince Harry seemed to be listening to the trials from afar.

For the publisher of the mail, lawyers argued that a part of the claim should be thrown because they contained illegal information gathering or “general” allegations related to other newspaper groups.

Antony White KC said that only “certain examples” “clearly defined factual problems should allow a fair and proportional manner.”

“In a few cases, it is unclear that the relevant targeting is made in the name of AnL, because the pleading is collected on the allegation that the relevant journalist worked in Mirror Group newspapers and/or news newspapers newspapers.”

Prince Harry had previously solved years of lawsuits for gathering illegal information against the Mirror Group Newspaper (MGN) News Group Newspaper (NGN).

Mr. White said: “UIG’s neutral general claims [unlawful information gathering]Especially in cases where they contain other journalists or more generally, they will not help the court in determining the individual claims of the plaintiffs. “

Mr. Sherborne said that the proposal of throwing some of the claim was largely “unreasonable and unjustly late” and should be rejected.

The two -day hearing will be concluded on Thursday and will be an expected decision at a later date. The hearing will take place in January and may take up to nine weeks.

CT It appeared in 2022 The prince and others, some of the allegations to court based on decimal years ago.

The publisher, claims that the allegations were brought “too late” in 2023 could not remove the case.

For the plaintiffs, lawyers have successfully defended that new evidence emerged and did not know how information was secretly acquired.

AnL’s lawyers have rejected the allegations called “insults” to the hard -working journalists whose lawyers have previously been “foundation” and their reputation underestimated.

AnL spokesman said that “journalists have” rejected the information derived from telephone hacking, telephone touch, error, computer or e -mail hacking or theft.

In the statement, he added: “Related stories, many of which were published 20 or more years ago and were not subject to any complaints at that time, are the product of responsible journalism based on legitimate resources”.

This is the latest newspaper publisher Harry has made legal proceedings on collection of information.