Top Lawyer Explains How Prince Harry's Disastrous Legal Defeat Could Cost His Team $70 Million

Please remember to like and subscribe! Check out my Substack: https://theroyalist.substack.com/ Prince Harry’s war on the British tabloids has ended not with a bang but with a bill. A truly enormous bill. In this episode of The Royalist, I’m joined by top lawyer Marcus Johnstone to unpack the full, brutal scale of Harry’s defeat in his case against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. The High Court threw out every single one of the claims (yes, all of them) in a judgment so comprehensive that even Harry’s most devoted supporters have struggled to spin it as anything other than a catastrophe. And now comes the reckoning. Johnstone explains why the total costs exposure for Harry and his fellow claimants could balloon to an astonishing £50 million (around $70 million) once ANL’s legal fees, the claimants’ own costs, and the punishing consequences of losing at trial are all totted up. Who actually pays? How are costs apportioned between Harry and his co-claimants (a group that included Elton John and Baroness Doreen Lawrence)? Could Harry personally be on the hook for tens of millions? And what does English law’s “loser pays” principle mean for a man whose litigation habit has already consumed a significant chunk of his fortune?