Has Harry's war with the press finally run out of road?

Has Harry's war with the press finally run out of road?Image source, EPA/ShutterstockImage caption, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is currently visiting the UK ByTom SymondsNews correspondentPublished4 minutes agoThese are the dying days of what has become known as the "hacking scandal".The latest judge to grapple with sprawling allegations of wrongdoing at newspapers has handed down a devastating verdict on the evidence presented by the Duke of Sussex and his co-claimants.Judge Mr Justice Nicklin found the group had failed to prove the allegations of unlawful information gathering they made against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.The publisher's defence that there was no wrongdoing was vindicated.Dozens of journalists have been believed over their accusers. They include veteran Daily Mail crime correspondent, Stephen Wright, who told the court he was "devastated" by the allegation he targeted Baroness Doreen Lawrence with surveillance worthy of a police inquiry.In a joint statement released shortly after the ruling, Prince Harry and Baroness Lawrence called the decision a "whitewash". The prince's lawyers have not yet mentioned an appeal.A long battlePrince Harry has been part of the saga right from the start. His was among the royal phones that police discovered had been hacked by the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire way back in 2007, resulting in Mulcaire's conviction, and that of the News of the World Royal Correspondent Clive Goodman.Image source, ReutersImage caption, Prince Harry pictured in 2007 - the year police discovered his phone had been hacked by a private investigatorThat led to a 2009 Guardian newspaper investigation into whether other phones had been hacked. The paper said that many had, including a private investigator hacking into a phone belonging to the murdered teenager Milly Dowler, for a News of the World story.The News of the World was shut down...