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Prince Harry Settles Case Against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids as News Group Newspapers Offers ‘Full and Unequivocal Apology’
News Group Newspapers have agreed to pay substantial damages and has apologized for phone hacking
Having previously said he wanted to see his case into phone hacking and unlawful information gathering go to trial, the royal has now reached a settlement before an argument was even made in London’s High Court. In a last minute deal made the day after the trial was due to start, Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has agreed to pay “substantial damages” to Prince Harry and issued an apology, read by his lawyer David Sherborne, of the “serious intrusion by The Sun into his private life … including the unlawful gathering” of information on him. Among the accusations are issues such as phone hacking and unlawful information gathering, while the trial was also set to assess whether senior figures at the papers knew what was happening and withheld or even destroyed evidence.
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