Prince Harry spent almost two days answering questions from the defense in London’s High Court this week. To the surprise of many, he did so with dignity and determination. Why his lawsuit against media group Mirror News Group affects us all in the end.
Day and a half of cross-examination in Courtroom 15 of the London High Court of Justice. That was almost eight hours on the witness bench, the hall occupied to the last seat with reporters from all the British media that Prince Harry is currently campaigning against. Those media outlets struggled to hide their malice ahead of Harry’s testimony in his lawsuit against the Mirror News Group. A royal speaks in public – Uncle Prince Andrew recently demonstrated that this can only go wrong. It took him just an hour with the “BBC” to talk himself into prison and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
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