Doukas sued Mail on Sunday for defamation, claiming that a report alleging that he had tried to keep a legal dispute with his bodyguards secret had caused him “significant blow, embarrassment and agony”. The story goes that after the newspaper first published the news that Prince Harry was seeking a judicial review of the government’s decision not to provide police protection during his family’s visits to the UK, his public relations engine “tried to give a positive twist to the controversy “. . Both parties appeared before Justice Nicklin asking the judge to determine the meaning of the offensive article. Justin Rushbrooke QC, for Prince Harry, said articles, print and online, claimed that the Duke “lied in his initial public statements that he was always willing to pay for police protection in the UK” when, he insisted, real position was that he had made such an offer only recently, following a visit to the United Kingdom last June. He said the story suggests that the Duke had “unjustifiably and cynically tried to manipulate and confuse public opinion by authorizing his” spin doctors “to make false and misleading statements about his willingness to pay for police protection immediately after his revelation. Mail on Sunday. sue the government “.
