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Prince Harry’s Rep Reacts After Offer to Stay at Buckingham Palace Is \u201cWithdrawn at the Last Moment”<\/p>\n
Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a>, <\/span>Elton John<\/strong><\/a> and more stars are dealing with the aftermath of a lost legal battle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On July 7, British Justice <\/span>Matthew Nicklin<\/strong> ruled against a group of high profile figures\u2014that also included <\/span>Elizabeth Hurley<\/strong>\u2014in a lawsuit accusing the Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the <\/span>Daily Mail, <\/span><\/em>of unlawful information gathering.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAssociated Newspapers welcomes today\u2019s judgement, which is an overwhelming victory for the <\/span>Daily Mail<\/span><\/em> and its journalists, and for a free press generally,\u201d a spokesperson for Associated Newspapers said in a July 7 statement to E! News. \u201cThis is a magnificent vindication of the <\/span>Daily Mail<\/span><\/em>\u2019s journalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In the lawsuit, filed in 2022, the plaintiffs accused the newspaper organization of mobile phone hacking, landline bugging and even home bugging in 97 separate allegations<\/span>. <\/span>Following the ruling, Associated Newspapers applauded Judge Nicklin for how his ruling \u201caccepted the honesty of our journalists\u2019 evidence on how they sourced their stories.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The publisher went on to reiterate, as they did in response to the initial filing, that the since-dismissed allegations were \u201clurid\u201d and \u201cpreposterous,\u201d adding the claims \u201cwere a fishing expedition by the claimants and their legal teams in a politically motivated campaign to muzzle the free press.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prince Harry’s Rep Reacts After Offer to Stay at Buckingham Palace Is \u201cWithdrawn at the Last Moment” Prince Harry, Elton John and more stars are dealing with the aftermath of a lost legal battle.\u00a0 On July 7, British Justice Matthew Nicklin ruled against a group of high profile figures\u2014that also included Elizabeth Hurley\u2014in a lawsuit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2492076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Prince-Harry-Elton-John-Lose-50-Million-in-Fees-After.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492077,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492075\/revisions\/2492077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}