According to Prince Harry, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group paid a significant amount of money to Prince William in 2020 to settle claims that its journalists hacked his cellphone. Prince Harry, who is also suing Mr. Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, stated in a legal filing that the payment resulted from a “secret agreement” between the publisher and the royal family. The agreement allowed the family to defer legal claims against the company and avoid the embarrassment of testifying about embarrassing details from their intercepted voice mail messages.
Prince Harry did not disclose the terms or size of the settlement in the filing, nor did he refer to specific incidents in which his brother’s calls had been hacked. He stated that William brought a claim against News Group, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct tabloid News of the World, in 2019, years after the illegal activity took place and the bulk of the phone-hacking litigation had been wound…
2023-04-25 13:56:10
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