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Paul Dacre [Daily Mail editor]: Prince Harry privacy case ‘conspiracy to destroy paper’
pressgazette ^ | July 8 | pressgazette

Posted on 07/08/2026 2:42:19 AM PDT by RandFan

Case was funded by 'orgy-loving racist' Max Mosley and actor Hugh Grant, says Dacre.

Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has given his reaction to an “overwhelming” High Court privacy trial victory versus Prince Harry saying the case was a “conspiracy” to destroy the paper.

“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin.

“Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante.

“The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50m and wasted a huge amount of valuable Court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession.

“Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper.

“Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press"

(Excerpt) Read more at pressgazette.co.uk ...


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Woah. These comments are not being reported widely but Dacre really put the boot into Harry for this action which he says could have destroyed the newspaper.
1 posted on 07/08/2026 2:42:19 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: All; dfwgator

I hope The Mail get full costs awarded with interest. This was one of the most expensive cases in modern times.

Time for the celebs to cough up. They tried to play the victim and destroy a newspaper.


2 posted on 07/08/2026 2:46:43 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan; All

Harry is a tool


3 posted on 07/08/2026 4:35:21 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: RandFan
Baroness Lawrence, you have some splainin' to do...

'I have the best relationship with the Daily Mail - it has been everything to me. Why would anyone turn on the people who have helped their case the most?' In a profoundly moving interview, Stephen Lawrence's father breaks his silence and speaks his mind

4 posted on 07/08/2026 4:37:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: RandFan

Since Harry aired his stuff, the only “thing”
left to question is... Yup...”Is it curved?” ..”Does it have a birthmark?”...Ahem harrumph...’Tailored or not?”


5 posted on 07/08/2026 4:44:01 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: mewzilla
From last Janurary. Seems to me this needs revisiting...

Prince Harry makes surprise appearance at Parliament ahead of his departure from the UK

6 posted on 07/08/2026 4:50:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

That Harry set foot in Parliament...

I’ve wondered why that didn’t create a hellacious stink, if not for Harry, certainly for his father.

Funny how that works, Daily Fail, your selective outrage.


7 posted on 07/08/2026 5:00:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: mewzilla

Because the royalty is toothless and everyone knows it?


8 posted on 07/08/2026 5:01:37 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup
Well, their Deep State is confident of it.

Meanwhile, from 2025, on the the guy the Duke of Hamas appeared with his first night back in the UK...

Renowned photographer Misan Harriman on Black Lives Matter, Gaza and finding hope in protest

On the appearance...

Prince Harry faces fresh scrutiny after posing alongside 'good friend' embroiled in controversy over alleged anti-Semitism A picture of Prince Harry posing next to his "good friend" Misan Harriman has sparked criticism online for one major reason.

Alleged...

Good one.

9 posted on 07/08/2026 5:27:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: SMARTY

HIS WIFE IS THE HANDLER


10 posted on 07/08/2026 7:19:56 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles; All

Yup ... and since she’s just one step up from the curb, SHE has handlers, too!


11 posted on 07/08/2026 7:26:10 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: RandFan

Yeah. Daily Mail has been critical of him and his half breed American slag of a wife. He had to do something so she wouldn’t yell at him.


12 posted on 07/08/2026 7:28:54 AM PDT by nonliberal (Pinochet did nothing wrong.)
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To: RandFan
I don't follow London Tabloids. And whatever the Daily Mail may have been when Heath, or even Thatcher, were PM, it is certainly a functional tabloid these days.

So what did the judge actually rule? The snippet I saw said that the Court found all the stories complained of were "lawfully sourced." That seems a long way from the Court finding that "the Daily Mail did not unlawfully access the voice mail of the Plaintiffs."

And just what does "lawfully sourced" mean when suing an UK Newspaper? If the paper hacks voicemail, gets a scoop unknown to the public, then goes and investigates the matter, conducts interviews it would not have known to conduct without the voicemail hacking, then publishes a story based on the interviews, was the story "lawfully sourced?"

13 posted on 07/08/2026 7:33:03 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: mewzilla
TWIMC:

As for what ghe UK enemedia, including the Daily Fail, has been sitting in/spiking for years, please allow me to offer this example from 2019...

I'm having an April baby! Meghan lets slip to well-wishers during a walkabout in Birkenhead she is now SIX months pregnant – but doesn’t know if it’s a boy or a girl as she wants it to be a surprise

Note the 7th and 8th words used in conjuction in the headline.

14 posted on 07/08/2026 8:18:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: RandFan
Wheels with wheels update. Seen in a couple of places, both dodgy sources, so from the lesser...

Prince Harry makes final decision on 'reunion' with Sarah Ferguson The royal family is on tenterhooks about what Prince Harry's UK visit

15 posted on 07/08/2026 9:38:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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