Harry is set to testify in a UK case against a tabloid editor

Prince Harry will be the first high-ranking member of the British royal family to testify in court in more than a century when he appears on Tuesday in a case against a publisher accused of hacking phones and other functions.

Harry, fifth in line to the throne, failed to appear at London’s High Court on Monday as expected, where he and more than 100 others sued Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which publishes the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror newspapers. , over allegations of widespread wrongdoing between 1991 and 2011.

The youngest son of King Charles will face hours of questioning from MGN’s lawyer Andrew Green on Tuesday and Wednesday based on 33 newspaper articles illegally obtained.

This will make him the first senior British monarch to testify in 130 years.

The MGN trial began last month, with lawyers for Harry and other plaintiffs trying to prove that the illegal data collection was conducted with the knowledge and consent of teachers and senior administrators.

Harry is one of four test cases, and his specific claims are the focus of the first three days of this week.

However, Harry did not turn up on Monday, leaving the US, where he now lives with his American wife Meghan, for daughter Lilibet’s birthday on Sunday.