London | The publisher of a British tabloid has apologised to Prince Harry for unlawfully seeking information about him, at the start of a lawsuit the royal is bringing over alleged industrial-scale phone hacking in which he is due to give evidence.

Prince Harry and some 100 celebrities including actors, sports stars, singers and TV personalities, are suing publisher Mirror Group Newspapers, accusing its titles of habitually accessing private information by widespread phone hacking, deception and other illicit means between 1991 and 2011.

Reuters