Prince Harry describes hacking ruling as "monumental"
Prince Harry has described a judge's ruling that he had been hacked as a 'monumental victory' in his first major interview since the conclusion of his court case with Mirror Group Newspapers in a new ITV1 documentary.Speaking in Tabloids On Trial, which airs on ITV1 & ITVX at 9pm on Thursday, Prince Harry tells ITV News' Rebecca Barry that just to have the judge rule in his favour was 'huge'.The first British royal in living memory to give evidence in court - in December 2023, a judge ruled The Duke had been the target of unlawful information gathering.He says: "To go in there and come out and have the judge rule in our favour was obviously huge. But for him 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."
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00:00When you got the judge's ruling that you had been hacked, what was your reaction?
00:06To go in there and come out and have the judge rule in our favour was obviously huge,
00:13but for him to go as far as he did with regard to, this wasn't just the individual people,
00:22this went right up to the top, this was lawyers, this was high executives,
00:26and to be able to achieve that in a trial, that's a monumental victory.