# Harry Took a £9.5m Costs Bill at the High Court

> Nine and a half million by August 28, after every claim went down.

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Beat: Celebrities
Published: August 21, 2026
Source title: Prince Harry and six others ordered to pay initial £9.5m to Daily Mail publisher
Source URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04kwr9r1zlo
Tags: harry, high-court, associated-newspapers, daily-mail

## Article

Prince Harry just took a £9.5 million costs bill at the Royal Courts of Justice after an 11-week trial. All 97 of those allegations got dismissed last month at the High Court. Harry had the nerve to call the whole loss a complete and obvious whitewash in public. Mr Justice Nicklin still put indemnity costs on Harry and the six others, including Elton John, who sued Associated Newspapers with him. The publisher had claimed about £34 million in costs for defending the Daily Mail. Harry now has to pay £9,544,355 by August 28 along with the rest of them. He keeps selling a whitewash after the court found no evidence. Harry's costs invoice still says August 28.

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