Tabloid group confesses to illegal information gathering on Prince Harry.

The publisher of the Daily Mirror has admitted to unlawfully gathering information about Prince Harry and apologized for it in court filings. The admission was made at the outset of Harry's first phone hacking trial against the former publisher of the Daily Mirror. The publisher denied hacking phones but acknowledged "some evidence of the instruction of third parties to engage in other types of unlawful information gathering." The trial is the first of Harry's three phone hacking lawsuits and threatens to put a royal on the witness stand to discuss embarrassing revelations.