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Prince Harry to be 1st royal ever to testify in a phone-hacking tabloid trial

Prince Harry is doing something British royals have rarely done before: He's going to court. The Duke of Sussex is set to testify this week in a phone-hacking trial against British tabloids.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, at the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in May. He is suing the publishers of <em>The Daily Mirror</em>, which he says behaved unlawfully to gain access to his private life for stories.

LONDON — In the days after 13-year-old Milly Dowler went missing on her way home from school in 2002, her parents kept calling her cellphone. Her voicemail box was always full.

Then, four days after she disappeared, it suddenly rang through to voicemail. Someone had checked her messages. It gave her parents, Sally and Bob Dowler, hope that their

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