Prince Harry loses legal battle against Daily Mail publisher as top U.K. court dismisses all claims
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Prince Harry loses legal battle against Daily Mail publisher as top U.K. court dismisses all claims
By Frank Andrews
Updated on: July 7, 2026 / 10:26 AM EDT / CBS News
London -- Britain's Prince Harry has lost his long-running legal battle against the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday tabloid newspapers, according to court documents seen by CBS News on Tuesday. All claims were thrown out by the court in what is widely expected to be the last of the prince's courtroom battles against British media outlets.
Harry, the Duke of Sussex, was among several claimants in the case -- along with pop star Elton John and actor Elizabeth Hurley -- who accused the publisher of the popular tabloids, Associated Newspapers (ANL), of unlawfully gathering information about them through methods such as phone tapping, intercepting voicemails and impersonating people to obtain personal information.
Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, arrives at Chatham House in London, England, July 7, 2026.
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In its ruling on Tuesday, the U.K. High Court dismissed the claims, saying they could not be proven.
Lawyers for Harry and the other claimants said the alleged acts took place between 1993 and 2011, but that the behavior continued into 2018.
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