Prince Harry gives evidence in Mirror Group phone-hacking trial – live | Prince Harry

Green is fixing on the issue that Harry is basing his claim on 147 specific articles, yet may not be able to specifically recall reading the individual articles and how they specifically caused him distress.

Harry is arguing that all articles published about him – every single one – caused him distress.

“Every one of these articles played an important role – a destructive role – in my growing up,” Harry says.

Harry in his witness statement says he is bringing the claim to “hold people accountable for what they’ve done”, Green says.

“How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness,” Harry says in his witness statement.

Who has blood on their hands? Green asks.

“Editors and journalists for causing a lot of pain and in some cases inadvertently death,” Harry says.

Harry says this is a broader statement rather than referring to a specific individual.

How can you say the articles caused you distress if you can’t recall reading them at the time of publication? Green asks.

I never said I didn’t read them, Harry says.

Harry says newspapers were often found in the royal household, he says.

Green gives one example of an article and asks if Harry can remember reading it, Harry says he can’t recall reading it at time of publication.

“I was a child, I was at school, these articles were incredibly invasive, every single time one of these articles was written it would have an impact on my life, the people around me, my mother in this case,” Harry says.

Green says Harry is essentially after recompense for general press intrusion rather than specific articles.

Prince Harry has been sworn in.

David Sherborne, his barrister, confirms that after being referred to as “your royal highness” in the first instance, the duke will be subsequently referred to as “Prince Harry”.

Jim Waterson

Prince Harry has entered the courtroom, shaking hands with members of his legal team including former Lib Dem MP Evan Harris, who now works on phone hacking cases.

Jim Waterson

I’m inside Court 15 at the Rolls Building in central London, where Prince Harry is about to become the first senior royal to be cross-examined in court since 1891.

It’s almost four years since Prince Harry started his phone hacking claim against Mirror Group Newspapers. And today he finally gets to put forward their side of the story, in his own words, under oath.

It could be brutal. Other individuals who have already given evidence in this trial have been visibly shaken by the experience of being cross-examined.

Harry will argue that journalists from the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and People hacked his voicemails and illegally used private investigators to obtain stories about him and his relationships.

The Mirror’s barrister, Andrew Green KC, will do his best to undermine Harry and cast doubt on both the prince’s evidence and his motive for bringing the claims. Harry will have to remain calm for two days of cross-examination, with every one of his allegations picked apart.

Dozens of television crews and photographers from around the world have gathered outside the Rolls Building in central London. Harry said he brought the case in order to draw attention to alleged wrongdoing in the British media. Now, with the world watching – and no lawyer telling him what to say – he’s got to make his case.

The Duke of Sussex has arrived at the High Court to give evidence in his case against the Daily Mirror’s publisher over alleged unlawful information gathering.

Prince Harry arrived in a black Range Rover, which pulled in quickly outside the Rolls Building in central London. Dressed in a dark suit, the duke walked straight into the court, passing the pack of photographers and other media waiting outside.

On Monday, Harry’s individual case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) got under way.

He is suing the publisher, claiming journalists at its titles – which also include the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People – were linked to methods including phone hacking, so-called “blagging” or gaining information by deception, and use of private investigators for unlawful activities.

His barrister David Sherborne claimed the duke was subjected to unlawful information-gathering activity “right from when he was a young boy at school” into adulthood, adding: “Nothing was sacrosanct or out of bounds.”

Andrew Green KC, acting for MGN, said there was no evidence that hacking of Harry’s phone took place. “Zilch, zero, nil, de nada, niente, nothing,” he said.