Prince Harry vs Daily Mail: Privacy Invasion Trial

0:00On March 2nd, in a London High Court trial, Prince Harry and other celebrities like Elton John are suing the Daily Mail's publisher for invading there, privacy through unlawful info gathering. The focus turned to Royal Editor Rebecca English, who denied asking a South African freelance reporter for sensitive flight details on Harry's trips, with past girlfriends, emails between English and the freelancer, Mike Baer, were shown in court, revealing details like Harry's flights to Cape Town, and back to London. Around Christmas, English said she didn't recall the messages and insisted they didn't match their usual chats. Harry's lawyer challenged her, pointing out her stories had precise travel info that others lacked, suggesting shady sources. English fired back their rival papers ran similar pieces and blamed colleagues or tipsters for the details, not Baer. She also described a rocky working relationship with Baer, and tough dynamics for women in journalism, for a 2004 story on Harry & Chelsea Devi, she credited a news desk tip from a campfire

1:03contact. The case rolls on with more testimony ahead, shedding light on how tabloids chased royal secrets. But for a 2004 story on Harry & Chelsea, she credited a news desk tip from a Campfire Contact. The case rolls on with more testimony ahead, shedding light on how tabloids chased royal secrets.