‘Parts of Mail on Sunday story about Harry claim against Home Office defamatory’

A High Court judge has ruled that parts of an article in The Mail on Sunday which alleged that Harry tried to keep his legal claim against the Home Office ‘secret’ were defamatory (Peter Nicholls/PA)

Parts of an article in The Mail on Sunday which alleged that Britain's Prince Harry tried to keep his legal claim against the Home Office “secret” were defamatory, a High Court judge has ruled.

Harry is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) after the paper ran a story following the first hearing in Harry’s separate High Court claim over his security arrangements when he is in the UK.