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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nina Massey

‘How Harry fell in love’ Botswana campfire story was given to Mail by someone present, High Court told

The source of press coverage of the courtship between Harry and Chelsy Davy was discussed during Monday’s proceedings (David Davies/PA) - (PA Archive)

The royal editor of the Daily Mail has told the High Court that information for a story about the Duke of Sussex giving details about his then-girlfriend around a campfire in Botswana came from someone who was there.

Rebecca English, who joined the Daily Mail in 1999 and became royal editor in 2020, was giving evidence in the trial of claims of unlawful information gathering brought by a group of household names against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), which publishes the Daily Mail and The Mail On Sunday.

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