LONDON: Prince Harry is to return to London this week for the trial into his claims that a UK newspaper group unlawfully gathered information, in the royal&#39;s last case in his long-running crusade against the <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/daily-mail-publisher-asks-uk-court-to-limit-prince-harry-lawsuit" style="color:#0073e6;">media</a>. The trial, expected to last up to nine weeks, is scheduled to start at London&#39;s High Court on Monday. It is the third and final case brought by the prince, who is said to see holding the media to account as a personal mission. Harry has long blamed the media for the death of his mother, Princess Diana, who was killed in a Paris car crash in 1997 while trying to shake off the paparazzi. King Charles III&#39;s younger son is bringing the case along with six other high-profile complainants, including pop icon Elton John and John&#39;s husband David Furnish. The seven accuse Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, of allegedly carrying out or commissioning unlawful activities such as hiring private investigators to place listening devices inside cars. They also allegedly impersonated individuals to obtain medical information &mdash; a practice known as blagging &mdash; and accessed private phone conversations. The media group has firmly denied the allegations, calling them &quot;lurid&quot; and &quot;preposterous.&quot; Rare UK trip&nbsp;Harry is expected to attend for some of the first three days of opening statements. He is then due to take the stand for a full day of testimony on Thursday, according to a draft trial schedule shared with reporters by lawyers. Actor Elizabeth Hurley is set to give evidence the following week, followed by John and Furnish in early February. Actor Sadie Frost is also among the complainants. In 2023, Harry made history by becoming the first senior British royal to give evidence in court for more than a century, when he testified as part of his claim against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). It will be a rare trip back to Britain for the prince, also known as the Duke of Sussex, who stepped back from royal duties in 2020 and relocated eventually to California with wife, Meghan, where they live with their two children. During his last UK visit in September, Harry met with the king, seeking to start to repair a bitter rift with his immediate family. But UK media have said there are no plans for Harry to see Charles during next week&#39;s visit. &#39;Blagging&#39; claim&nbsp;The new trial follows earlier cases brought against Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Group Newspapers (NGN) and Mirror Group. Last year, Prince Harry settled out of court in his action against Murdoch&#39;s UK tabloid publisher. NGN &mdash; publisher of tabloids The Sun and the now defunct News of the World &mdash; agreed to pay him &quot;substantial damages&quot; in January 2025 after admitting intruding into his private life, including by hacking his phone. In a statement, NGN offered a &quot;full and unequivocal apology&quot; to the prince for &quot;serious intrusion&quot; into the private lives of Harry and his mother, Princess Diana, by The Sun, and also &quot;phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators instructed by them at the News of the World.&quot; In his other case against Mirror Group, a High Court ruling in December 2023 said Harry had been a victim of phone hacking by journalists working for the group and awarded him &pound;140,600 ($179,600) in damages. Media lawyer Mark Stephens told AFP much had changed in the British media in recent years, but that this final case would primarily be about &quot;press freedom.&quot; &quot;Press freedom is essential, but so is freedom from being illegally spied on,&quot; he said. &quot;I think we&#39;re not going to be looking so much at yesterday&#39;s gossip. I think this case is going to be more about tomorrow&#39;s accountability for the media more generally,&quot; he added.

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The trial, expected to last up to nine weeks, is scheduled to start at London's High Court today; it is the third and final case brought by the prince, who is said to see holding the media to account as a personal mission.


Harry set for final courtroom battle against UK media

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LONDON, Sept 10: Prince Harry&#39;s foundation is to donate $500,000 to projects including the World Health Organisation to help develop prosthetics and provide other support for children from Gaza and Ukraine, his office said on Wednesday. The announcement came on the third day of the prince&#39;s visit to Britain, where he visited the Centre for Injury Studies (CIS), part of Imperial College London, to learn more about its work, especially its focus on injuries suffered by children and those sustained in natural disasters. &quot;No single organization can solve this alone,&quot; he said in a statement. &quot;Gaza now has the highest density of child amputees in the world and in history. It takes partnerships across government, science, medicine, humanitarian response and advocacy to ensure children survive and can recover after blast injuries.&quot; The CIS said children were seven times more likely to die from blast injuries than adults. The three grants announced by Harry and his wife Meghan&#39;s Archewell Foundation include $200,000 to the World Health Organization to support medical evacuations from Gaza to Jordan, and $150,000 to the Save the Children charity to provide ongoing humanitarian support in Gaza. The third grant of $150,000 was to the Centre of Blast Injury Studies, part of CIS, to help its efforts to develop prostheses that can support injured children, particularly those injured from the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. The Duke of Sussex, 40, opened laboratories of the Centre for Blast Injury Studies in 2013. Harry himself spent 10 years in the British military, during which he served two tours in Afghanistan, and he has made campaigning for veterans a priority, founding the Invictus Games for military personnel wounded in action. NOT JUST THE MONEY He was joined on Wednesday by WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for a tour of the CIS, where he met with research teams working on a number of world-leading projects. &quot;I&#39;m really pleased about what he&#39;s doing, especially for the children of Gaza,&quot; Ghebreyesus said. &quot;It&#39;s not the money, it&#39;s also the passion and commitment I think I see.&quot; Showing him round was double leg amputee Dave Henson, a CIS ambassador, who has known Harry for more than a decade and was the first captain of the British Invictus team in 2014. &quot;It&#39;s been hugely important for raising the profile of the centre,&quot; Henson, who lost his legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2011, said of Harry&#39;s involvement. Harry, who now lives in California after stepping down from official royal duties in 2020, has spent the week visiting charities, including one in Nottingham, central England, where he announced a 1.1 million pounds ($1.49 million) donation to help young people in communities blighted by violence and knife crime. However, in a sign of his estrangement from his family, much of the media focus of the trip has been on whether he will meet his father King Charles, whom he last saw 20 months ago, shortly after it was announced that the 76-year-old monarch was undergoing treatment for cancer.

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Prince Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation pledged $500,000 in grants to support children injured in Gaza and Ukraine, funding medical evacuations, humanitarian aid, and prosthetic research. Harry toured blast injury labs with WHO chief Tedros, highlighting his long-standing advocacy for war victims.

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Harry set for final courtroom battle against UK media

Prince Harry donates $500,000 to help wounded children in Ukraine and Gaza