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LONDON (AP) \u2014 Prince Harry \u2032s longtime battle with the British tabloids reaches its climax Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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A judge in London\u2019s High Court will rule on the Duke of Sussex\u2019s privacy invasion lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail, ending a trio of lawsuits that accused the news media of unlawfully snooping on his life.<\/p>\n

Harry and six others are seeking substantial damages in the celebrity-studded lawsuit where the legal costs for the 11-week trial have been estimated at about 40 million pounds ($53.5 million).<\/p>\n

Harry, singer Elton John and actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost are among those who accused Associated Newspapers Ltd. of tapping their phones, intercepting voicemails and obtaining personal information through deception.<\/p>\n

The newspapers denied the allegations as \u201cpreposterous,\u201d insisting the roughly 50 articles at issue were based on lawful sources including friends, royal aides and publicists who offered information to reporters.<\/p>\n

The verdict coincides with Harry\u2019s visit home to the U.K., but the court case has been overshadowed by the question of whether he will bring his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, for a rare visit to their grandfather, King Charles III.<\/p>\n

Harry has long criticized the news business<\/h3>\n

Harry\u2019s self-proclaimed mission to reform the press for creating what he called a toxic environment is much deeper than headlines that documented his party boy youth and romantic ups and downs. His emotional testimony in February drove that point home.<\/p>\n

The prince has blamed the press for the death of his mother, Princess Diana, who was killed in a car crash in 1997 while being pursued by paparazzi in Paris, and for attacks on his wife that led the couple to leave royal life and move to the United States in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey continue to come after me, they have made my wife\u2019s life an absolute misery,\u201d he said as he choked back tears in the witness box.<\/p>\n

The phone hacking scandal that began in the 1990s and continued for more than a decade gave Harry the opportunity to break with royal family tradition and take his case to court. Three years ago, he became the first senior royal to testify in court in over a century.<\/p>\n

Harry won a judgment in 2023 that condemned the publishers of the Daily Mirror for \u201cwidespread and habitual\u201d phone hacking. Last year, Rupert Murdoch\u2019s flagship U.K. tabloid, The Sun, made an unprecedented apology for intruding on his life for years, and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit.<\/p>\n

The case against the Daily Mail<\/h3>\n

Attorney David Sherborne said the Daily Mail and its sister publication, Mail on Sunday, used its journalists, freelance reporters and private eyes for \u201cclear, systematic and sustained use of unlawful information gathering\u201d to snoop on his clients.<\/p>\n

He connected payments to detectives with dates of articles in question to try to show, for example, how journalists tracked down information about Harry\u2019s then-girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, and her travel plans.<\/p>\n

Harry testified at the start of the trial in January that press intrusions left him \u201cparanoid beyond belief,\u201d strained his relationships and took a toll on his mental health.<\/p>\n

Hurley accused the Mail of putting microphones outside her windows and stealing her medical records among \u201cother monstrous, staggering things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is like there is someone peeping into your life and into your home,\u201d the model and actor testified. \u201cMy private life had been violated by violent intruders \u2014 that there had been sinister thieves in my home all along and that I had been living with them completely unaware.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Other claimants in the case are anti\u2011racism activist Doreen Lawrence, former politician Simon Hughes and John\u2019s husband, David Furnish.<\/p>\n

Journalists were \u2018lining up\u2019 to testify in defense<\/h3>\n

Defense lawyer Antony White said the case relied on conjecture and inferences when the more likely source of information was \u201cordinary, legitimate journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

White said Harry was \u201cinclined to see unlawful evidence gathering, in particular voicemail interception, everywhere,\u201d despite a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n

The Mail trial has played out differently than the Mirror case, with White saying that journalists were \u201clining up\u201d to defend their work in court. Some reporters pointed to official mouthpieces, such as a palace spokesperson, and others named their sources to dispute Harry\u2019s assertion that his \u201csocial circles were not leaky.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were not all tight-lipped,\u201d Katie Nicholl, a former Mail on Sunday editor, said about Harry\u2019s associates. \u201cI had very good sources in the inner circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detective\u2019s testimony could make or break case<\/h3>\n

One issue at the trial is whether the claimants should have been allowed to bring allegations dating to the 1990s, long after a six-year limit expired.<\/p>\n

They avoided the deadline by saying they were unaware of the phone hacking until private investigator Gavin Burrows came forward in 2021 to \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and help those he had targeted.<\/p>\n

But Burrows, who once apologized to Harry in a BBC documentary for ruthlessly targeting him for tabloids in his teen years, testified at trial that he never worked for the Mail. He said a statement attributed to him was fabricated by the claimants\u2019 legal team and his signature was forged.<\/p>\n

Justice Matthew Nicklin repeatedly asked Sherborne what would happen to the case if he rejected Burrows\u2019 original statement.<\/p>\n

Sherborne said a wealth of other evidence implicated the newspapers, but White said the case collapsed with Burrows\u2019 testimony contradicting the witness statement he disavowed.<\/p>\n

Burrows denied switching sides to get revenge after a disagreement with Harry\u2019s legal team.<\/p>\n

Possible reunion with royal family overshadows the case<\/h3>\n

The judgment, which will be issued remotely without a hearing, comes as Harry is in London for charity events.<\/p>\n

Harry had been expected to bring his children to visit Charles, who is being treated for an undisclosed type of cancer, for the first time in years. Harry has been trying to repair a rift since he moved to America and aired family grievances in the scorching 2023 memoir, \u201cSpare,\u201d and a Netflix series.<\/p>\n

But a family reunion is up in the air as Harry haggles over security arrangements and accommodations. A government committee refused to authorize taxpayer-funded security, which was the source of disputes \u2014 including litigation \u2014 that Harry has repeatedly lost.<\/p>\n

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