This Tuesday, the prince harry is presented in the London High Court, after failing to appear at his summons on Monday due to his daughter’s birthday celebration. There he will testify in his lawsuit against the British tabloid Daily Mirror, whom he accuses of telephone hacking and other illegal acts.

Harry did not appear in court on Monday, as expected, but will give evidence on Tuesday, becoming the first senior British royal to testify in court in 130 years. In this way, the youngest son of King Carlos joins the list of more than 100 personalities who have sued to the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN)editor of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, for alleged irregularities committed between 1991 and 2011.

MGN apologized at the beginning of the trial for admitting on one occasion that the sunday people there was illegally searched for information on Harry, accepting that he was entitled to compensation. But he has denied the rest of the accusations, claiming that there is no proof of them and it is likely that the Buckingham Palace figure prominently in Harry’s questioning, as MGN maintains that part of the information came from the royal house.

The trial began last month, when lawyers representing Harry and three other plaintiffs tried to show that the illegal collection of information was carried out with the knowledge and approval of editors and senior executives. Harry’s lawyer, David Sherborne, explained in court on Monday that the lawsuit was not part of a retaliatory battle against the press, but was intended to focus attention on the alleged illegal activities.

Sherborne claimed that during the period covered by the allegations, a few 2,500 articles on Harry’s private life in the MGN headers, with nothing being “sacrosanct or off limits” and whatand the protagonists did not have “any protection” against these illegal methods of collecting information.

Harry’s absence on Monday

Harry was expected to appear in court on Monday, but Sherborne said he had flown in from his Los Angeles home on Sunday night, after attending his daughter Lilibet’s second birthday party, and that his travel and security arrangements were a challenge. little “complicated”. Judge Timothy Fancourt was “surprised” by Harry’s absence, while MGN lawyer Andrew Green said that his absence was “absolutely extraordinary”.