the barriers were going up yesterday outside court to keep the media from prince harry an arrangement which neatly symbolised what this case is really about. truth is, when the duke takes to the witness stand for up to two days cross examination by the mirror s barrister, the questions will be about a past era ofjournalism. before the famous put out their own news on social media, the tabloids had to get exclusives about their lives to sell papers. prince harry says headlines like this one about a back injury which prevented the then i7 year old prince playing rugby didn t come from royal sources, as the reporter claimed, but from hacking, or blagging. this one about drug taking involved payments to private investigators. and many of the stories he ll be asked about involve his former girlfriend, chelsy davy. his case stresses the damage, he says, the tabloids did to that relationship. this trial is ill tempered. when prince harry didn t appear yesterday due to travel
truth is, when the duke takes to the witness stand for up to two days cross examination by the mirror s barrister, the questions will be about a past era ofjournalism. before the famous put out their own news on social media, the tabloids had to get exclusives about their lives to sell papers. prince harry says headlines like this one about a back injury which prevented the then 17 year old prince playing rugby didn t come from royal sources, as the reporter claimed, but from hacking, or blagging. this one about drug taking involved payments to private investigators. and many of the stories he ll be asked about involve his former girlfriend, chelsy davy. his case stresses the damage, he says, the tabloids did to that relationship. this trial is ill tempered. when prince harry didn t appear yesterday due to travel and security arrangements, the judge was a little surprised. but the newspaper s lawyer, andrew green kc, found it quote