Prince Harry breaks silence on 'monumental victory' against the British press in new documentary

In December, Prince Harry won a substantial part of his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).

A high court judge awarded him £140,600 in damages after ruling that Harry's phone was hacked “to a modest extent” from the end of 2003 to April 2009.

In the documentary, reporter Rebecca Barry asked the prince: "When you got the judge's ruling that you had been hacked, what was your reaction?"

Harry replied: "To go in there, and come out and have the judge rule in our favour was obviously huge.

"But to go as far as he did with regard to, you know, this wasn't just the individual people, this went right up to the top, this was lawyers, this was high executives.

"And to be able to achieve that in a trial, that's a monumental victory."

Following the trial, Prince Harry called for the authorities to take action.

He also criticised Piers Morgan, the former editor of The Daily Mirror, after settling the remaining parts of his phone-hacking claim against the publisher of the Daily Mirror.

The duke claimed that the former editor knew "perfectly well what was going on".

Morgan denied he had been aware of phone hacking during his time as editor.

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In a statement read outside his home, he said Harry “wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in his California-tanned face”.

Morgan also claimed Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, were trying to “destroy the British monarchy”.

The high-profile trial led to Harry becoming the first senior royal in more than 130 years to be cross-examined in a courtroom.

The landmark ruling found there was “widespread and habitual” phone hacking by MGN from 2006 to 2011, “even to some extent” during the Leveson inquiry into media standards.