Prince Harry's legal battles with the press
Prince Harry has had a turbulent relationship with the media and holds the press responsible for the death of his mother Princes Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997 as she fled from paparazzi.
Harry and his wife Meghan in 2020 stepped back from royal duties and relocated to California, in part blaming media attention for the move.
The prince has vowed to make reforming the British media his life's mission and has waged several battles with UK tabloids over privacy concerns.
Here is a breakdown of his legal cases:
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The High Court in London ruled on Friday that Harry was a victim of phone hacking by journalists working for Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), and awarded him £140,600 ($179,600) in damages.
The judge agreed that 15 of 33 sample articles submitted by Harry as evidence in his lawsuit against MGN, which publishes The Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, were based on unlawfully gathered material.
Bosses at the Mirror «could and should have put a stop to it» but instead «turned a blind eye to what was going on, and positively concealed it,» said the judge, as he awarded the prince damages and compensation «for the distress that he suffered».
However, the judge also said that his phone was «only hacked to a modest extent» between the end of 2003 to April 2009.
Harry, who is among a number of celebrity claimants seeking damages from Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over unlawful information-gathering, called the verdict «vindicating and affirming».
«The mission continues,» he added.
His is one of four representative cases selected for a trial that will also help the court decide the level of damages if their
