Prince Harry's claims - and how they were challenged

For 2 days Prince Harry has faced aggravated cross-examination successful the witnesser container astatine the High Court, making him the archetypal elder royal to springiness grounds successful a instrumentality tribunal successful 132 years.

His quality has focused connected 33 illustration articles from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People newspapers which helium claims were obtained done unlawful accusation gathering, including telephone hacking.

Mirror Group Newspapers denies telephone hacking successful this case, and Harry's grounds has been challenged by the publisher's barrister, Andrew Green KC.

Here are immoderate of the exchanges from the past 2 days successful court:

Among the articles Harry claims were linked to telephone hacking is an nonfiction successful The People from September 2007 which reported details of his alleged troubled narration with Chelsy Davy, his on-off woman for six years.

"Prince Harry's romance with Chelsy Davy is successful situation aft a drawstring of bitter bust-ups," The People's nonfiction said.

In his written statement, Harry said helium believed the accusation indispensable person travel from hacked voicemails.

"I ne'er discussed immoderate details with the Palace astir my narration with my girlfriend, truthful attributing specified accusation to a Palace root is incredibly suspicious," Harry told the court.

He alleges everything successful the nonfiction attributed to a Palace root is simply a effect of telephone hacking, due to the fact that the Palace would not person known astir specified information.

But MGN's barrister Andrew Green said: "We are successful the onshore of full speculation astir wherever this accusation mightiness person travel from?"

"Not astatine all. I disagree," Harry said successful response.

Harry is besides complaining astir an April 2006 nonfiction successful The People titled 'Chel shocked' which helium claims is linked to telephone hacking.

The nonfiction said Harry's past woman Chelsy Davy "blew her top" astir his "boozy" evening astatine a "sleazy portion joint", and included details of a telephone telephone betwixt the pair.

MGN barrister Andrew Green argued that the communicative astir his travel had already been reported successful different publications, namely the Daily Mail.

But successful response, Harry said the Mirror was encouraged to look for further accusation astir it.

"In truthful acold arsenic the nonfiction successful The People of which you kick raises the information that Ms Davy was angry, it was not adding thing successful substance that had not been implied successful different articles?" Green asked.

Harry replied: "That's a classical illustration wherever a communicative originates from a antithetic insubstantial and past the Mirror oregon different insubstantial - which is 1 measurement down - is encouraged to spell retired and get other information."

This was a communal taxable passim Harry's cross-examination - whenever it was enactment to him that the accusation had already been reported earlier the Mirror papers got to it, Harry successful crook claimed it encouraged MGN journalists to usage unlawful techniques to find caller angles.

September 2002 - and the Daily Mirror reports there's "No Eton trifles for Harry", revealing his 18th day had been a spot of a damp squib due to the fact that helium spent the evening travelling backmost to schoolhouse from his father's estate.

The communicative said he'd had luncheon with member William and had received a acceptable of play clubs from his precocious mother's brother, Earl Spencer. In his witnesser connection helium said it had been an perfect juncture for him to beryllium targeted by journalists looking for backstage information.

But the Mirror's barrister told the tribunal the communicative could beryllium sourced to an interrogation the prince had agreed to bash with the Press Association - and asked him if determination was thing successful the communicative that could person travel from voicemail interception, alternatively than the interview.

"Did you look backmost astatine the interrogation earlier signing disconnected your witnesser statement," asked Andrew Green.

As helium took the duke done the interview, helium said helium could "see the similarities" with the Mirror story.

"Do you inactive support that the Daily Mirror nonfiction revealed backstage accusation without your consent," asked the barrister.

"I judge the nonfiction was connected to an invoice," said Prince Harry.

"The timing is suspicious."

"So what you're suggesting is that though the nonstop aforesaid accusation was released by you successful an interrogation and appeared successful different articles, you deliberation that what happened was [the Mirror's royal editor] hacked your telephone to effort and get further information?"

"Based connected the ineligible squad and what I've seen, yes."

In different exchange, Prince Harry was quizzed connected differing accounts successful his witnesser connection and successful his memoir Spare.

A communicative successful The People successful 2003, which is portion of his case, revealed a backstage disagreement betwixt him and his member astir however to grip Paul Burrell, their mother's erstwhile butler.

In his witnesser statement, the prince said helium did not privation to conscionable Burrell, but successful his publication Spare helium said helium did.

Asked by Andrew Green to clarify his position, the duke replied: "I can't retrieve whether I wanted a gathering with him oregon not."

In the paper article, Prince Harry is quoted arsenic calling Mr Burrell a "two-faced shit" - helium says journalists whitethorn person got that from a voicemail interception.

He told Mr Green helium could not callback leaving a circumstantial voicemail connection for his member utilizing that connection due to the fact that of the transition of clip betwixt present and then, but added: "I was leaving voicemails for my brother, and that is simply a terminology I utilized describing Mr Burrell, yeah."

The barrister suggested determination were sources talking astir this communicative wrong the Royal Household.

The Evening Standard's royal analogous Robert Jobson for 1 seemed to person spoken to them.

"I wouldn't needfully telephone them sources," Prince Harry responds. "Based connected a batch of what he's written, they whitethorn beryllium imaginary sources."

Prince Harry peculiarly remembered 1 nonfiction successful The People astir a meal enactment day with the precocious TV presenter Caroline Flack - an lawsuit helium said had near him "shocked" and "livid".

In April 2009 Harry and Ms Flack arranged to conscionable astatine the London location of his adjacent confidante Mark, oregon Marko, Dyer.

The Duke recalled helium discreetly near his Army grooming successful Lincolnshire and erstwhile helium got to Marko's, paparazzi from the representation bureau IKON were hiding underneath a car.

"There's nary mode I could person been followed. Only Marko, Caroline and I knew of the plans," helium said.

Team Harry asked however The People could person known, fixed the secrecy surrounding the meet-up.

But Andrew Green, for the Mirror Group, deed backmost saying The People paid IKON £2,500 for the communicative - suggesting its journalists had nary nonstop engagement successful immoderate portion of the newsgathering.

"Would you hold that if the writer astatine The People had known astir this communicative from telephone hacking, they wouldn't person paid £2,500 to a writer for this material?" helium asked.

Harry replied: "The communicative makes it precise wide the photographers were determination earlier I got there, they saw maine arriving. The evening was specifically betwixt maine [and] Caroline who is nary longer with us."

After the backmost and distant betwixt Prince Harry and the Mr Green, the justice had immoderate questions for Prince Harry.

Judges don't ever intervene successful the introspection of a witnesser - but erstwhile they do, it often leads to courtroom speculation astir what they are thinking.

Mr Justice Fancourt could person asked Prince Harry anything, but astatine the extremity of his evidence, helium was peculiarly funny successful a completely-overlooked portion of his witnesser connection successful which helium says helium recalls memories of the tell-tale signs of voicemail interception.

Over those 4 paragraphs of his statement, Prince Harry says helium remembers dependable messages connected his telephone would look not to beryllium new, adjacent if helium had not listened to them, oregon the icon for a caller connection would vanish from his surface earlier helium had had a accidental to entree the inbox.

There is nary quality that telephone hacking techniques past utilized by journalists could pb to messages disappearing this way.

"Can you assistance by identifying when... you experienced this unusual activity?" asked the judge.

"From the infinitesimal I had a mobile phone," replied Prince Harry, meaning astir the clip helium went to Eton College successful 1998.

"Are you saying this continued passim the period?"

"It ne'er stopped," said Prince Harry, earlier detailing his anecdotal recollections of friends asking wherefore helium had missed voicemails.

Is this speech important? Well, it could be.

The justice was asking Prince Harry astir thing successful his idiosyncratic cognition and experience, aft hours of allegations that the Mirror Group had said were speculative and unsupportable.

The Judge's appraisal of the Duke's credibility connected this reply whitethorn go important successful his conclusions astir whether helium mightiness person been targeted, adjacent if determination is nary insubstantial way to beryllium it conclusively.