Prince Harry has lost his privacy case against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, at London's High Court. Justice Nicklin ruled against the Duke of Sussex and six fellow claimants — including Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish, and actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost — dismissing every claim of unlawful information gathering. The judge said the allegations required more evidence to be proven in the civil case, and the outcome marks a significant setback for Harry after his successes in other press-related privacy actions.

The claimants had alleged "grave breaches of privacy" and other illegalities, including the interception of voicemails, tapping of landlines, paying off police officers, faking medical records and bugging celebrity homes. Associated Newspapers, which had denied the "lurid" and "preposterous" claims, called the ruling "an overwhelming victory" and noted that the judge dismissed all 97 allegations while accepting the honesty of its journalists' evidence. Harry and co-claimant Doreen Lawrence — mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence — branded the judgment a "complete and obvious whitewash", contrasting it with earlier hacking cases won against News Group Newspapers and Mirror Group Newspapers; Harry had settled his separate case against The Sun's publisher in January 2025 with a "full and unequivocal" apology.