Prince Harry wins damages for phone-hacking by Mirror newspapers

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, departs the Rolls Building of the High Court in London, Britain June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry was awarded 140,600 pounds ($180,743)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 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 – had sued MGN, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People.