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Before Prince Harry’s June 2023 court testimony, who was the previous British royal to face such an ordeal?
Prince Albert Edward was Queen Victoria’s eldest son, who became King Edward VII in 1901. One of the illegal Baccarat card games he attended came to trial in 1891, and the prince was called as a witness. This was the first time the heir to the throne was compelled to appear in court since 1411. In Prince Harry’s June 2023 court testimony, 130 years later, he accused the Mirror Newspaper Group of intercepting his voicemail messages and using other unlawful means to obtain personal information about him and his family. He claimed he wanted to take a stand against the news media he viewed as having “>blood on their hands”> for their role in his mother, Princess Diana’s death in 1997. The trial is expected to last several weeks.