What really happened inside the courtroom in Prince Harry's £10m case. JAN MOIR had a ringside seat - and reveals the details that tell so much...
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At 10.22 on Tuesday morning, celebrity barrister David Sherborne walked into Court 30, handed his overcoat to an underling then turned around and smiled at everyone like a rock star acknowledging an adoring crowd. From the Press benches we drank in his gorgeousness with silent admiration; the sharply tailored suit, the dazzling white teeth, that thick sweep of unlikely hair. If you ask me (and nobody has) I would say regular applications of chestnut rinse along with matching man-dye eyebrows are responsible for such poodle-clipped splendour. But who knows? Perhaps nature has simply blessed him in the hair department as it has so richly rewarded him elsewhere.
![[Prince Harry had always vowed he would never settle. He saw himself as 'a crusader', he has said. Picture, the Duke of Sussex at a previous hearing last March]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/16/94441605-14318155-image-a-18_1737649927162.jpg)
For Sherborne is the first lawyer the A-list call upon in matters of defamation, privacy or confidentiality. The highly remunerated legal beagle has previously represented Princess Diana and, at the Rolls Building in London this week, he was representing her son Prince Harry and Lord (Tom) Watson in their blockbuster legal case against News Group Newspapers (NGN).
![[Barrister to the stars David Sherborne - standing next to client Tom Watson (left) - outside the High Court yesterday]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/16/94441567-14318155-image-a-17_1737649921694.jpg)
Yet, as showdowns come and go, this one came and went – turning out to be less of a rumble and more of a crumble in the jungle. We were all set for eight weeks of high drama; sifting through the events of at least a dozen years ago, testing the evidence from both sides and looking forward to Harry being cross-examined for four days by the formidable Clare Montgomery KC for NGN.
