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Prince Harry wins landmark phone hacking case against one of Britain's major tabloids

A U.K. judge ruled against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, finding that the paper used phone hacking to gather information unlawfully on the Duke of Sussex.
Updated December 15, 2023 at 11:23 AM ET

LONDON – Hounded by paparazzi all his life, Britain's Prince Harry won a legal victory Friday against a U.K. newspaper group he accused of hacking into his voicemail in the early 2000s to get scoops.

It's a vindication for Harry, who has blamed what he calls a poisonous U.K. tabloid culture in part for a fallout with his family,

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