Prince Harry appeared to have failed to carry out basic resesarch and received a mauling in the witness box
THE MEGA AGENCY
For most of his life to date, the Duke of Sussex has relied on others to do the basics. Driving, picking up groceries, writing one’s autobiography, these are tasks he has been content to subcontract to others. But when making serious allegations against an opposing party in a court case it is best to have done one’s own homework, however tedious. Clearly, Prince Harry did not observe this rule before going into the witness box in the High Court this week to claim he had been the victim of “industrial scale” phone hacking by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).
Time and again, Harry, who is suing MGN for unlawfully violating his privacy between 1996 and 2011, was forced to admit that stories