Bitter defeat for Prince Harry (35). The press regulator has voided the complaint about inaccurate reporting filed by the Duke of Sussex against the British tabloid "Mail on Sunday". The Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO) sees no misleading readers in the article "Stunned and captivated … what Harry didn't tell you about these impressive animal photos". Prince Harry had said otherwise about the publication that was released in April last year.
Did Prince Harry veil the truth?
Background: The 35-year-old published a series of pictures of wild animals on Instagram on April 22, including photos of a rhino and an elephant. The Royal later wanted to raise people's awareness of flora and fauna, he argued. But the gossip newspaper presented it differently in his eyes. In the article, she assumed that the duke had told "not the whole story": parts of the picture were said to have been retouched or even completely cut away so as not to let people see that the animals were sedated or chained at the time of the picture.
Prince Harry opposes: In his complaint, reports, among other things, the London newspaper "Evening Standard", it is said that he would be assumed to be a "superior nature photographer", "who took the pictures under dangerous circumstances". However, that is not the truth, says the 35-year-old. In his opinion, there was no deception, since the picture comments explicitly mentioned that the animals were photographed as part of a resettlement. It was therefore not necessary to mention the stunning or chaining of the animals.
The Duke of Sussex further argued that parts of the pictures, such as the elephant's ankle bracelets, were not shown, solely because of the specified picture format on Instagram.
IPSO advocates newspapers
In front of the press regulatory authority IPSO, the Royal has now lost out. According to the report, yesterday, Thursday, the verdict was that "Mail on Sunday" neither published the article nor violated the accuracy standards, nor "significantly misled the readers".