Prince William settled a secret phone-hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper arm for a “huge sum”, according to his brother Prince Harry.
Britain’s Prince William settled a phone-hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper arm for a “huge sum” after a secret deal struck with Buckingham Palace, the heir’s younger brother Prince Harry said in court documents.
Despite having the backing of the late Queen Elizabeth to take on the Murdoch group, Harry said attempts to get an apology from them had been stonewalled.Still, he said NGN had settled William’s claim “for a huge sum of money in 2020... without any of the public being told, and seemingly with some favourable deal in return for him going ‘quietly’ so to speak”.
The case, one of four Harry is currently pursuing against British publishers, comes in the wake of his Netflix documentary and memoir, in which he accused tabloids of widespread unlawful activity and said his family had colluded with them to enhance or protect their own reputations.His lawyers said under the secret deal, the royals had agreed to hold off from pursuing their claims against NGN until the conclusion of other outstanding phone-hacking litigation.
But despite the queen’s intervention, a year later the palace lawyer had told him “nothing could be done as NGN were not in a position to apologise to Her Majesty the Queen and the rest of the Royal Family at that stage” in case it incriminated the Sun.After turning to outside lawyers to launch his own litigation in 2019, he said he was summoned to Buckingham Palace and told to drop it by his father and senior aides.
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