QUOTES-Prince Harry gives evidence in court

Prince Harry began giving evidence on Tuesday at the High Court in London in his lawsuit against the publisher of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, which he accuses of phone-hacking and other unlawful acts. Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, has previously admitted its titles were involved in phone-hacking, but said there was no evidence that Harry had ever been a victim.

Below are quotes and highlights from the courtroom where Harry is due to face hours of cross-examination in the witness box on Tuesday and Wednesday: BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS?

Harry was asked about a passage in his witness statement on the British press, in which he said: "How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness?" Asked if the MGN journalists who wrote the articles at the centre of his lawsuit had "blood on their hands", he replied: "Some of the editors and journalists that are responsible for causing a lot of pain, upset and in some cases - perhaps inadvertently - death."

LIFE WASTED ON PARANOIA Harry said in his witness statement: "It's only now, realising what the defendant's (MGN's) journalists were doing, and how they were getting their information, that I can see how much of my life was wasted on this paranoia.

"I've always heard people refer to my mother as paranoid, but she wasn't. She was fearful of what was actually happening to her and now I know that I was the same." STATE OF PRESS AND GOVERNMENT AT ROCK BOTTOM

"On a national level as, at the moment, our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our government – both of which I believe are at rock bottom," Harry said in a written witness statement. "I may not have a role within the Institution but, as a member of the British Royal family, and as a soldier upholding important values, I feel there's a responsibility to expose this criminal activity in the name of public interest."

GIRLFRIENDS "At no point did I have a girlfriend or a relationship with anyone without the tabloids getting involved and ultimately trying to ruin it using whatever unlawful means at their disposal," Harry wrote in his witness statement.

"I genuinely feel that in every relationship that I've ever had – be that with friends, girlfriends, with family or with the army, there's always been a third party involved, namely the tabloid press." HOSTILITY TOWARDS THE PRESS

Harry: "I have experienced hostility from the press since I was born". Asked if he felt hostility to the press he said "Yes, that's correct." ON PIERS MORGAN

Harry added in the witness statement: "The thought of Piers Morgan and his band of journalists earwigging into my mother's private and sensitive messages (in the same way as they have me) and then having given her a 'nightmare time' three months prior to her death in Paris, makes me feel physically sick and even more determined to hold those responsible, including Mr Morgan, accountable for their vile and entirely unjustified behaviour." "Unfortunately, as a consequence of me bringing my Mirror Group claim, both myself and my wife have been subjected to a barrage of horrific personal attacks and intimidation from Piers Morgan ... presumably in retaliation and in the hope that I will back down."

Morgan, the Mirror's former editor and now a high-profile broadcaster, has denied any involvement in unlawful behaviour.