LONDON (AP) -- As his 16th birthday approaches tomorrow, Prince William feels the attention he's getting from the press is too personal.

Yesterday, Buckingham Palace said William and a tabloid newspaper had "amicably resolved" the first complaint lodged by the prince against the media.

A "grossly intrusive and inaccurate" article in The Mail on Sunday claimed to know everything from his innermost thoughts to his bedroom decor and said that girls he liked were vetted by staff and then invited to tea.

Not true, royal spokesman Sandy Henney said. "He is still only a young man. We felt the suppositions were intrusive to his privacy."

In the wake of the furor following Princess Diana's Aug. 31 death in a Paris car crash with the paparazzi in hot pursuit, the British Press Complaints Commission revamped the media code of conduct, putting the children of celebrities off limits while they are under 16 or still at school.

Under that voluntary code, William is still off limits.

And commission spokesman Tim Toulmin says, "Just because Prince William is suddenly 16 doesn't mean to say that they can suddenly start poking long lenses at him."

William is already shaping up to be as big a celebrity as Diana. The prince's height, rosy cheeks and coy smile wowed teenage girls who wolf-whistled at him when he visited Canada in March.