withdrawing an offer of accommodation at Buckingham Palace <\/a>for the night.<\/p>\nThe duke had requested to stay there on his flying visit to London ahead of his Invictus Games one-year countdown in Birmingham this week. Buckingham Palace pointed to too little notice being given by the duke for appropriate hospitality and staffing provisions.<\/p>\n
As the written judgment was handed down remotely by the judge, Harry was speaking at Chatham House, the international affairs thinktank\u2019s building in central London, addressing the first of a series of events celebrating his Invictus Games. He kept his head down and made the speech, then left the room for a while. The claimants\u2019 barrister, David Sherborne, was seen entering the building,<\/p>\n
Harry has been publicly critical of the refusal of his father, and his estranged brother, Prince William, to take on the media themselves. Charles proclaimed such legal battles a \u201csuicide mission\u201d, according to Harry\u2019s bestselling memoir, Spare, in which he accused his family of complicity with the media through alleged leaking.<\/p>\n
He wrote that he told Charles and William: \u201cI might learn to endure the press, even forgive their abuse, I might, but my own family\u2019s complicity, that was going to take longer to get over. Pa\u2019s office, Willy\u2019s office, enabling these fiends, if not outright collaborating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry\u2019s response to the loss did not hide his anger at defeat. In a joint statement with Lawrence, the two condemned the ruling as \u201ca complete and obvious whitewash but sadly not altogether unexpected.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the lengths to which the court has gone to exonerate the Mail is as shocking as it is totally unwarranted.\u201d<\/p>\n
They had sought justice and accountability, they said. \u201cBut we have received neither.\u201d It was \u201cone rule for the newspapers and another for the claimants\u201d.<\/p>\n
He has been resolute in his own mission, haunted by the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, while being chased by paparazzi, and determined to protect his own family from similar media scrutiny.<\/p>\n
He may have claimed victories in the past. But there were few words of solace in Tuesday\u2019s unequivocal judgment.<\/p>\n
His visceral dislike of some sections of the media, and his absolute insistence that his social circle was not leaky, may have led him to strongly suspect \u2013 indeed utterly believe \u2013 some stories were gained unlawfully. But, as the judge impressed in his ruling, suspicion is not proof.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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