London (EFE) , which he accuses of illegal practices to obtain exclusives.
The Duke of Sussex, who did not appear on Monday, as expected by the judge, Timothy Fancourt, appeared this morning at 08:39 GMT after arriving at the court in a black vehicle.
The youngest son of King Carlos III and the ill-fated Diana of Wales has filed a lawsuit against MGN alleging that journalists from its headlines -which include the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People- engaged in dubious methods to obtain information, such as tapping private phones and hiring to detectives to collect personal data.
The case of Enrique, who lives in the United States with his wife and two children, is exposed at the same time as those of three other accusations considered “representative” of celebrities in this country, as part of a judicial process that began last month and It will last about seven weeks.
According to the Duke, some 140 articles published between 1996 and 2010 contained information collected using illegal methods. Of those publications, 33 will be taken into account during this trial.
For its part, MGN has denied or not admitted them and has also argued that some of the plaintiffs have transferred their particular cases to court too late.
Enrique appeared last March before that same court in a preliminary hearing in relation to a separate accusation against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), owner of the Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday.
The Duke has also taken legal action against News Group Newspapers, owners of The Sun and the now-defunct News Of The World.