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

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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, his decision to step down as a working royal and his 2020 move to California with his American wife Meghan Markle and their children.

London's High Court ruled that phone-hacking was "widespread and habitual" in the 1990s and early 2000s at tabloids run by the Mirror Group, and that newspaper executives not only knew about it — but tried to cover it up. The judge said Harry's cell phone was specifically targeted between 2003 and 2009.