It is essential to establish the following:
Does the hate/dislike of Harry matter more than the objective problematic of some media practices.
Freedom of the press:
Prince Harry is drunk and a self confesed drug user.
Not freedom of the press:
Prince Harry is drunk and a self confesed drug user, a woman rapist, batterer, and murderer.(without a shred of evidence)
Freedom of the press:
Harry's friend XYZ was in charge of supplying drugs from ABC.
Not freedom of the press:
A person (media) selling drugs to someone associated with Harry (even if the person doesn't use at all) to artificialy create ''evidence'' about drug usage.(even if nothing happened, just ''documenting'' the offering is enough to accuse)
Attempting to prevent his joining the military that way.
Your(ones) freedom, is to believe whatever you wish.
You (one) should not be able to ruin someones life, criminaly implicate them etc... by claiming/creating something without a shred of evidence.
From your post above:
''But I have no idea at all why whyHazno thinks he has anything at all to add to the debate?''
A Royal face
Global exposure of the case
Implication of individuals who were directly associated with both-the Government and Royals.(All Charles and Camillas spin doctors are one way or the other involved(of course it will fail)
A modern precedent (stand) but contrarary to media narratives Royals were in court(testified) before.(Edward VII example)
From your post:
''What a waste of everyones time and money, to indulge spoilt childish behaviour!''
The price of this (money in this) shouldn't matter.
You(one) should know, that's priceless, someone took it away from you (one), by lying.
Admitably, I don't understand why Harry should lose his case?
Because he is a traitor?
Because Peg, because I don't like them?
Because damage on them is desirable, even if it damages others?
Not sure who benefits from that.
Surely some of these things relate to issues across more than one area? Maybe there were times that Harold was hard done by the press in the pass, but, were these issues actually illegal? Which is what the Mirror case is about?
Some of these things surely are a difference of opinion? Are any of these illegal, or just ill advised? There is the whole Freedom of Information issue, The Public interest issue, the issues that arise from individuals selling their stories, eg Paul Burrell, friends or associates of Harry, and maybe even ladies like Angela Kelly.
Then add in issue around Hazno and his active service in Afghanistan, which must have caused so so many issues on a state level, I can imagine loads of indirect pressure and publicity around this, to prevent Hazno doing any kind of active service there, from all kinds of people, the RF, secret services, the military itself. because
Harold serving a war in Afghanistan was such a bad idea from a diplomatic point of view! I am no diplomat, but I studied history and have an educated awareness of the mess that is and was Afghanistan. Its a mess politically for so many different reasons, the Russians failed to sort things out, the Americans and British failed to sort anything out, its a religious fundamentalist state, whose people are in poverty, but it has a massive income from the poppies /drugs it grows, and from wealthy sympathisers like Bin Laden. so a mess. The minute Hazno arrived in Afghanistan to play at soldiers, he put a massive target over not only his head, but also over the soldiers he was serving with.
If he had been seized as a hostage, what kind of disaster would this have been?
In some ways:
The price of this (money in this) shouldn't matter.
You(one) should know, that's priceless, someone took it away from you (one), by lying.
Except that we all know that in reality, money in the current world in 2023, does matter a great deal. There is a virtual recession, people are needing to use food banks, far too many people are homeless, or struggling to survive. So a multi millionaire Prince, suing the British Press virtually for hurty feelings, looks extremely tacky to me, and a huge waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Exactly what was taken away from him? How did he actually miss out?
And did anyone actually lie about him, or did they instead distort the actual truth and embroider the facts a bit to suit their story? A bit like almost everything H & M do?