Prince Harry became the first high-ranking British royal to take to the witness stand in more than 130 years this week.

Prince Harry ended his testimony in his trial against a newspaper group. “For my whole life, the press have misled about me and covered up their wrongdoing,” he said.

Prince Harry choked up in court as he concluded an eight-hour testimony in his lawsuit against a major British newspaper publisher, admitting he would feel an “injustice” if his claims of phone hacking were dismissed by the judge.

Harry has told the court he's determined to stop the "madness" of news outlets using alleged unlawful activities to obtain personal information.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyRoyalist is The Daily Beast’s newsletter for all things royal and Royal Family. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Sunday.In the late ’90s and early 2000s an unfounded rumor set tongues wagging the length and breadth of British society.

Prince Harry entered the courtroom on a mission to prove the publisher of the Daily Mirror tabloid hacked his phone and unlawfully snooped.

Harry was defended from online critics of his phone-hacking lawsuit heard in London this week, by a member of his mother's family.