"Prince Harry's Tabloid Phone Hacking Settlement Marks Continued Battle Against Media Intrusion"
Prince Harry accepts costs and damages from a tabloid publisher for phone hacking and illegal snooping, vowing to continue his mission to rein in the British media. Mirror Group Newspapers will pay all legal costs, substantial damages, and an interim payment of 400,000 pounds. The settlement avoids new trials over 115 more tabloid articles, and Harry still has ongoing cases against other publishers. The judge orders Mirror Group to pay some legal costs for other claimants and criticizes the publisher's attempts to conceal the truth. Phone hacking by British newspapers dates back more than two decades, and Mirror Group Newspapers has paid over 100 million pounds in phone hacking lawsuits over the years.