London | Prince Harry will get his long-awaited day in court against Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), as his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers for unlawful gathering of private information finally goes on trial in London.

Prince Harry is not expected to take the stand for at least the first two weeks of the trial, which will be devoted to “generic issues” relating to the practices of the papers from the 1990s to the early 2010s, when lawyers say their reporters routinely hacked the prince’s mobile phone and those of other celebrities to dig up intimate details.