Prince Harry irks judge by skipping first day of trial

Prince Harry was accused of wasting the court’s time in his phone-hacking lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper, and left the judge overseeing his case “visibly irritated” because he did not show up for the first day of his trial, as the judge had instructed him.

The Duke of Sussex had been ordered by the judge to be present in the High Court in London Monday, in the expectation that the court would be ready for him to start testifying Monday afternoon against the publisher of the Daily Mirror. Instead, Harry left California Sunday evening having the spent Sunday celebrating the second birthday of his daughter.

— Martha Ross, Bay Area New Group