Prince Harry has dropped his lawsuit against British newspaper company Associated Newspapers.
On Friday, the same day the Duke of Sussex was ordered to produce documents related to the case, his lawyers informed London's High Court that he was withdrawing the case altogether. They did not reveal the reason for their choice.
As a result of the decision to drop the case, the 39-year-old is responsible for paying all of Associated Newspapers' legal costs, which the Daily Mail reports amount to 250,000 pounds (approximately $316,000). It is said to become.
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Prince Harry has dropped his lawsuit against the Daily Mail newspaper. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images for Invictus Games Düsseldorf 2023)
Last month, the father-of-two was ordered to pay nearly £50,000 (more than $60,000) in legal costs to his publisher after he unsuccessfully tried to settle the case without going to court.
A representative for Prince Harry did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
The lawsuit concerns an article published in February 2022 that it said attempted to hide its efforts to maintain publicly funded protection in the UK after leaving its role as a working member of the royal family. Ta.
Judge Matthew Nicklin ruled at the High Court in London at the time that the publisher had a “real prospect” that the statement issued on Prince Harry's behalf was misleading. He pointed out that the article presented by the crown prince as defamatory reflected an “honest opinion” and was therefore not defamatory.
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Prince Harry claimed that the Daily Mail published a defamatory article about him in 2022. (Viktor Simanovic/Anadolu Agency)
“Defendants may argue that this was a master class in the art of 'spinning,'” Nicklin wrote.
Charles III's second son claimed the article was “fundamentally inaccurate”. The newspaper believed the paper had defamed it by suggesting it had lied in its first public statement about its efforts to challenge the government's decision to strip the paper of classified information.
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The member of the royal family is embroiled in a separate legal case regarding the security of himself, his wife Meghan Markle, and the couple's two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan left the UK in 2020. (Chris Jackson)
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Regarding this ongoing litigation, Prince Harry argues that instead of the government's decision to provide security on a case-by-case basis each time family members come to the UK, they should be provided with security each time they enter the country. did. Prince Harry claims that hostility towards him and his wife on social media and relentless pursuit by the media threatens their safety.
He said he wanted his children to “feel at home” abroad, but that would not be possible “without the possibility of keeping them safe when on mainland Britain”. Ta.
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Fox News Digital's Stephanie Nolasco, Janelle Ash and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
