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Prince Harry suffered a major blow amid his ongoing cases running in the London High Court.
The Duke of Sussex, who has been going back and forth with his cases, was granted a partial summary judgment with his case against NGN, with the judge dismissing his phone hacking claims on he basis that it has expired. There is a six-year period in which such claims can be brought in Britain.
According to Newsweek chief royal correspondent, Jack Royston, said during The Royal Report podcast that prince harry is in dire need of a win before he starts to look like a failure.
“It would have been a major victory for him if he could get that ruling,” he said of the phone hacking claim. “There’s also the issue of the kind of general smell of failure. Like, you don’t want to smell of failure. You want to smell of success, and so this is another kind of dent in the armour.”
The expert noted the Sussexes have already been in a midst of a business crisis since June when Spotify parted ways with them and their Netflix deal was hanging by a balance. Prince Harry was also majorly snubbed after his best-selling memoir, Spare, became the most discarded book by holidaymakers.
“It’s another knock for Harry on the back of a whole load of others,” Royston continued.
“From the collapse of [Harry and Meghan’s] Spotify deal to the kind of big cultural backlash against Harry’s memoir. So, you know, a victory on the remaining bit of the case would really help to offset that.”