Prince Harry’s courtroom defeat could drive up legal insurance premiums Insurance Prince Harry’s High Court defeat to the owner of the Daily Mail could send legal insurance premiums soaring, experts have warned, after the Duke and six other high-profile figures were left on the hook for an uninsured bill of £19m. The Duke of Sussex, Sir Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, actresses Liz Hurley [...]
Prince Harry hit with £9.5m Daily Mail legal bill Legal Prince Harry and six other high-profile figures have been ordered to pay £9.54m towards the Daily Mail publisher’s legal costs after losing their long-running privacy case. Judge Matthew Nicklin Nicklin ruled on Friday that the claimants must make an interim payment of £9,544,355 to Associated Newspapers by 28 August, after the publisher ran up costs [...]
Prince Harry braces for eye watering legal bill after Daily Mail defeat Lawsuit The litigation costs Prince Harry and a group of six other household names will have to pay the Daily Mail’s publisher are set to be decided on Friday after the group lost their high-profile phone-hacking case. The celebrity group waged a long-running legal battle against Associated Newspapers over allegations of illegal information gathering and phone [...]
Hacking scandal? Inside Prince Harry’s costly legal battle over privacy July 9, 2026 The phone hacking scandal, which first emerged 15 years ago, has cost the owners of Britain’s most prominent newspapers over a billion pounds in legal damages, keeping law firms and the courts busy for more than a decade, writes Maria Ward-Brennan. The phone hacking saga returned to the headlines in spectacular style this week after [...]
Prince Harry defeated in phone hacking legal battle against Daily Mail publisher July 7, 2026 Prince Harry and a group of six other high-profile household names have lost a long-running legal battle against Associated Newspapers over allegations of illegal information gathering, including phone hacking, after an 11-week trial earlier this year. Mr Justice Nicklin said in a 436-page judgment the group of claimants had failed to prove the allegations and [...]
The Capitalist: RAC is not a roadside assistance firm March 26, 2026 Breakdown…in comms The Capitalist was shocked this week after being approached by a spokesperson for RAC, telling City AM off for referring to the company as a roadside assistance firm in a recent story. RAC is not, in fact, a roadside assistance firm, said the spokesperson, who was from PR company Brunswick. Which is funny, [...]
Prince Harry’s love letter to Britishness is thin gruel November 10, 2025 Prince Harry has never posed as a deep thinker, but his paean to “banter” written from his mansion in Montecito is beyond a joke, says Eliot Wilson If immigration is one of the most contentious subjects in contemporary British politics, then British identity is in turn one of its knottiest elements. What does it mean [...]
The Capitalist: Davos, Prince Harry and the City’s unstoppable salad cult January 23, 2025 Dispatches from Davos, Prince Harry's settlement and the salad's unstoppable conquest on the City: catch up on the latest City gossip.
Prince Harry settles as The Sun’s publisher offers ‘unequivocal apology’ for phone hacking January 22, 2025 Prince Harry has settled his legal case with the News Group Newspapers a day into a mega-trial at the English High Court.
Prince Harry’s best-selling memoir Spare drives sales at book publishing giant September 25, 2024 The success of Prince Harry’s best-selling memoir Spare helped drive sales at book publishing giant Random House, it has been revealed. The business, which is part of the Penguin Random House group, saw its turnover jump by 13.2 per cent to £262.3m in 2023, helped also by the Board of Lunch series which focuses on [...]