Man Missing in the ‘Mirror’

Prince Harry and his actress wife Meghan Markle may have enjoyed celebrating their daughter Lilibet’s second birthday at their Riven Rock estate, but the Duke of Sussex’s behavior didn’t cut it with a top British judge.

The top legal eagle rebuked Harry’s barrister when King Charles III’s youngest son was “unavailable” on the first day of a major trial in which he is suing my former employer, the Daily Mirror, for alleged phone hacking.

Justice Timothy Fancourt said he was “surprised” Harry, 38, was not available to start giving evidence in his case.

The prince’s barrister David Sherborne said his client was in a “different category” because of his “travel and security arrangements.”

Harry is the first senior royal to give evidence in a British court since 1891 when he took to the witness box. The last was King Edward VII, Queen Victoria’s son, when he was a witness in a slander case centered around a game of baccarat gone wrong.

Harry is one of four claimants suing the newspaper group, which denies the allegations of hacking.

The judge said he didn’t want to spend any more time discussing the matter of Harry’s absence “as it appears nothing can be done.”

The case against the Mirror is expected to last for seven weeks.

Stay tuned…

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