LONDON — Prince Harry is taking to court in style.

A crisp navy suit with a clean white shirt and a maroon printed necktie was what the prince selected to wear for his first appearance at London’s Royal Courts of Justice, where he’s suing the Mirror Newspaper Group in a phone hacking trial.

The next day he wore the identical suit with a lightweight silver brick printed necktie.

On each days he wore his signature bracelets, which have been a part of his style for greater than 20 years. The beaded bracelets denote his love for Africa and it’s speculated that he bought them in 1997 right after the passing of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

The set of bracelets features a brown beaded set; a green rope with black beads and a silver bracelet, which he wore on his wedding day in 2018.

A member of the British royal family hasn’t been cross-examined in court for greater than 130 years.

In 1891, Queen Victoria’s eldest son, Prince Albert Edward took to the stand to testify as a witness for his friend, Sir William Gordon-Cumming, who was accused of cheating and lost the case. The prince went on to turn into King Edward VII in 1901 when his mother passed.

For Harry, the circumstances are albeit different. As he’s now not a working royal, he’s allowed to bring out a memoir and star in a Netflix special together with his wife, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex.

It’s not the prince’s first time at court. 

In March, he arrived at London’s Royal Courts of Justice for his lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Every day Mail, wearing an 800 pound Dior shirt embroidered with a tiny bee in 18-karat gold thread.

On the coronation of King Charles III, Harry wore a custom three piece suit by Kim Jones for Dior that included a black wool and mohair peak lapel tailcoat; gray wool and mohair pants; a classic white cotton shirt; a gray silk tie; a black wool and mohair peak lapel double-breasted vest and black leather derbies.

His tailoring has turn into sharper by adopting an American attitude to suits: slim silhouettes that border skinny quite than adhering with the British way of suiting, which regularly includes wider proportions.

“Harry’s suit has a sartorial elegance that’s elevated from the normal suits worn by the royal family — he looks sharper and more stylish than he looked up to now,” said said Peter Bevan, a London-based menswear stylist.

“His suits when he was a working royal would have been crafted by British tailors, like Gieves & Hawkes, who famously made suits for his father and older brother. The fit was often more classic, so as compared this suit is more fashion forward,” he added.

The Dior affiliation dates back to Princess Diana. She carried the mini Lady Dior handbag on the Met Gala in 1996, which was reissued last yr. 

At Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee last yr, Markle arrived wearing a belted coat from Dior with a vibrant white hat.

The outfit was from the Dior Haute Couture Spring Summer 2022 collection, in accordance with the corporate. 

The St. Paul’s service was the primary public engagement for the couple since stepping down in 2020.

Without the responsibilities of royal life, the prince quickly found a recent sleek, grove in California.

For his first Christmas card together with his family in 2021, shot by fashion photographer Alexi Lubomirski, he opted for a pair of slim fit jeans with a rip on the knee worn with a linen shirt in an identical shade together with his bracelets and no shoes.

It was after a yr of stepping down from official duties that Harry found his recent self — a meditative man identical to Don Draper in the ultimate episode of “Mad Men.”