Prince Harry was awarded 140,600 pounds, or about $240,430 Cdn, after London’s High Court ruled on Friday he had been a victim of “modest” phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering by journalists at Britain’s Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).
The prince — who became the first senior royal to appear as a witness in court in 130 years at the trial in June — had sued MGN, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.
Harry said he was targeted by MGN for 15 years from 1996 and that more than 140 stories which appeared in its papers were the result of unlawful information