HARRY WINDSOR has been awarded £140,600 after a High Court judge ruled the Mirror Group (MGN) had engaged in “extensive” phone hacking from 2006-11.

Mr Justice Fancourt concluded the practice continued “to some extent” during the Leveson Inquiry into media standards and that the duke’s phone was probably hacked “to a modest extent” by the publisher.

The royal sued MGN for damages, claiming journalists at the Daily and Sunday Mirror and Sunday People were linked to methods including phone-hacking, so-called “blagging” or gaining information by deception. He also alleged the use of private investigators for unlawful activities.