Published : 07 Nov 2026, 02:50 AM
Updated : 07 Nov 2026, 02:50 AM
Britain's Prince Harry has applied for permission to appeal against a London court ruling which rejected his privacy lawsuit against the Daily Mail's publisher, in an attempt to revive his legal battle with the British press, his lawyer said on Friday.
The royal, King Charles's younger son, recently returned to Britain from the US with his American wife, Meghan, and was one of several high-profile figures who sued Associated Newspapers over alleged unlawful information gathering.
But London's High Court comprehensively rejected their cases in July, later ruling that the claimants could face an even higher legal bill because they brought the lawsuits unreasonably.
A lawyer for the claimants said in a statement on behalf of six of the seven claimants, including Prince Harry, singer Elton John and actor Elizabeth Hurley, that "the claimants respectfully disagree with those unprecedented decisions, which they consider to be legally and factually flawed".
There was no comment from a spokesperson for Harry. Associated Newspapers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Harry's lawsuit against the Daily Mail was the culmination of a long campaign against the British media, during which he won against the publisher of the Daily Mirror tabloid and settled a claim with Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm.
The royal has long blamed the press for the 1997 Paris car crash that killed his mother, Princess Diana, and compared her treatment to that of Meghan. Holding back tears in the witness box, he said the Mail made Meghan's life "an absolute misery".
