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re: Prince Harry Must Pay Mail on Sunday £48,447 ($60,927) in Legal Fees
Prince Harry Ordered to Pay £48,000 to Mail on Sunday. The Duke of Sussex Must Pay £48,447 ($60,927) in Legal Fees by 29 Dec.
The Duke of Sussex has been ordered to pay the Mail on Sunday more than £48,000 in damages after he lost an attempt to strike out part of the papers’ defence in a libel case.
Daily Mail 13 DEC 2023
LONDON — A judge ordered Prince Harry on Monday to pay nearly 50,000 pounds (more than $60,000) in legal fees to the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid for his failed court challenge in a libel lawsuit.
The Duke of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article that said Harry tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the U.K. after leaving his role as a working member of the royal family.
Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled Friday in the High Court in London that the publisher has a "real prospect" of showing that statements issued on Harry’s behalf were misleading and that the February 2022 article reflected an "honest opinion" and wasn’t libelous.
"The defendant may well submit that this was a masterclass in the art of ‘spinning,'" Nicklin wrote, in refusing to strike the honest opinion defense.
Harry has claimed the article was "fundamentally inaccurate" and the newspaper defamed him when it suggested he lied in his initial public statements over efforts to challenge the governments’ decision to strip him of his security detail after he and his family moved to the U.S. in 2020.
Harry, 39, the younger son of King Charles III, also has a lawsuit pending against the governments decision to protect him on a case-by-case basis when he visits Britain. He claims that hostility toward him and his wife on social media and relentless hounding by the news media threaten their safety.
Nicklin said a libel trial lasting three to four days will be scheduled between May 17 and July 31.
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