Prince Harry wins ‘significant damages’ in legal dispute with UK newspaper
Jenny Afia, a lawyer for the The Duke of Sussex, said in a statement to open court on Monday that “the baseless, false and defamatory stories published constituted not only a personal attack on the Duke’s character, but also wrongly brought into question his service to this country.”
The Duke has requested any damages received go to the Invictus Games Foundation, “so he could feel something good had come out of the situation,” his lawyer said. The settlement amount was not made public.
The Mail on Sunday published the article “Top General accuses Harry of Turning his Back on the Marines” on October 25, 2020, and the MailOnline published an almost identical piece.
Both stories alleged that the prince had “snubbed” the Royal Marines and the British military and ignored correspondence from Lord Dannatt, a former Chief of the General Staff.
“All these allegations are false as the Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline have now accepted, albeit after considerable damage was already done,” Afia said on Monday.
“The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline publicly admitted in open court that they pushed a completely false and defamatory story. And they’ve apologized for questioning The Duke of Sussex’s commitment to the Royal Marines and British Armed Forces,” a spokesperson for The Duke of Sussex said.
The publisher of the Mail on Sunday did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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