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Prince Harry, Elton John and others to pay initial £9.5m to Daily Mail publishers in legal fees

Claimants lost British high court case over allegations of unlawful information gathering

By Alistair Gray in London
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#1509
First seen
21 Aug 2026, 13:34 UTC
Last checked
22 Aug 2026, 04:50 UTC
Version history
2 versions
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Recorded article metadata

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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
21 Aug 2026, 13:22 UTC
Source updated
No update timestamp supplied
Byline
Alistair Gray in London
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Source-supplied excerpt
Claimants lost British high court case over allegations of unlawful information gathering
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    Prince Harry, Elton John and others to pay initial £9.5m to Daily Mail publishers in legal fees

    Claimants lost British high court case over allegations of unlawful information gathering

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    Prince Harry, Elton John and others to pay initial £9.5m to Daily Mail publishers in legal fees

    Claimants lost British high court case over allegations of unlawful information gathering

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Capture ID
#895
Observed
21 Aug 2026, 15:50 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
Raw payload
729,249 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
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