Prince Philip's health: a right to press restraint

I have a soft spot for Prince Philip. He's funny and smart. I do find the way in which the press or the professional complainers damn him for anything the press say he has said and demand he shuts up whilst demanding that they have the right to say anything, even if they call for someone's death odd, though symptomatic of an inherent hypocrisy. 

Any way Prince Philip is in hospital after undoing a heart operation. I hope he makes a full and easy recovery as I wish all those in hospital or ill health. 

Now the press are in hot water because of their illegal use of private records, including medical ones. The worst of the press let us not forget, under Piers Morgan, published photographs of a mentally ill woman in hospital. Others published what a famous person said under therapy. The press hounded a dying Freddie Mercury out of the country because of the way they treated him. 

So with such a background is it a good idea for the press to publish private details of Prince Philip in hospital?

Quotes such as "Philip: Just let me go home!" are wrong. 

Now if we assume that the Daily Mail haven't made the quote up, and the press do make stuff up, how dare they trample over the right to privacy Philip or anyone has just for a story? Philip being ill is newsworthy but there is no right to hound a ill person in hospital. Medical records, or what is said to medical professionals are private. If people worry what they say will be splashed over the press then they'll think twice about saying anything embarrasing. That'll kill people. 

There is no justification for the press to hound an ill person. 

How can any paper be as stupid as the Mail today?