Harry is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers at the High Court in London for multiple unlawful acts allegedly committed on behalf of its tabloids
Britain’s Prince William has settled a phone-hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. newspaper arm for a “very large sum” after a secret deal struck with Buckingham Palace, lawyers for the heir’s brother Prince Harry said in court documents., is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers at the High Court in London for multiple unlawful acts allegedly committed on behalf of its tabloids, the Sun and now defunct News of the World, from the mid-1990s until 2016.
“In responding to this bid by NGN to prevent his claims going to trial, the claimant has had to make public the details of this secret agreement, as well as the fact that his brother, His Royal Highness, Prince William, has recently settled his claim against NGN behind the scenes,” his lawyers said.They added NGN had settled with William “for a very large sum of money in 2020″. William’s office said it could not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.
Harry said Buckingham Palace “wanted to avoid at all costs” the reputational damage caused by publication in the 1990s of details of an “intimate telephone conversation” between Charles and the now Queen Consort Camilla, when his father was still married to his mother Princess Diana., had been involved in discussions and in 2017 had given her permission for him to pursue his case.
Harry, who now lives in California, was not in court, but would be watching proceedings by videolink, his lawyer David Sherborne said.
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