UK's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, departs the Rolls Building of the High Court in London, UK, 7 June 2023; Credit: Reuters/Toby Melville/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom's Prince Harry was awarded £140,600 (approx. €164,000) after London's High Court ruled on Friday 15 December 2023 he had been a victim of "modest" phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering by journalists at Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).

The prince - who became the first senior royal to appear as a witness in court for 130 years at the trial in June 2023 - had sued MGN, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.

Harry said he was targeted by MGN for fifteen years from 1996 and that more than 140 stories which appeared in its papers were the result of unlawful information gathering, though the trial only considered 33 of these.

Of those the judge found unlawful actions had contributed to fifteen articles during a period when he concluded that there had been extensive phone-hacking and widespread unlawful actions at the newspapers, of which some executives and in-house lawyers were aware.