Prince Harry and six other claimants, including Elton John, David Furnish, Sadie Frost, Liz Hurley and Baroness Doreen Lawrence, have been ordered to pay an initial £9.54 million ($13 million) on account toward Associated Newspapers Ltd’s legal costs after losing a privacy case against the Daily Mail publisher. The group failed in July to prove allegations of phone hacking and other unlawful intrusion into private lives between 1993 and 2011. Mr Justice Sir Matthew Nicklin fixed the interim sum at £9,544,355, due by August 28, and declined to cap total liability, meaning the claimants could ultimately face up to the £34.5 million ($47.05 million) ANL says it incurred or an additional £25 million. He said the publisher’s costs appear exceptionally high and largely unexplained, with the conduct unreasonable to a high degree. The claimants took out insurance for around half of that total. The ruling comes two days after the announcement that Harry and Meghan are returning to the UK later this month and ends a trio of lawsuits against tabloid publishers. They have until Oct. 2 to decide whether to appeal.