Mail defends its story about Harry girlfriend

THE royal editor of the Daily Mail has told the High Court that information for a story about the Duke of Sussex giving details about his girlfriend at the time around a campfire in Botswana came from someone who was there.

- PRESS ASSOCIATION REPORTERS

Rebecca English, who joined the Daily Mail in 1999 and became royal editor in 2020, was giving evidence in the trial of claims of unlawful information gathering brought by a group of household names against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), which publishes the Daily Mail and The Mail On Sunday.

The publisher strongly denies the claims and is defending the case brought by Harry, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Sir Elton John and others.

Yesterday, barrister David Sherborne, for the group of high-profile figures, asked Ms English about an article, headlined “How Harry fell in love”, which is one of 14 stories at the centre of the duke’s claim.

The story, which was published in December 2004, reported that the duke had shared details of his relationship with Chelsy Davy around a campfire in Botswana.