Prince Harry's lawyers announced on Wednesday that they had reached a settlement with Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers over accusations of illegal intelligence gathering. It's an abrupt end to a lawsuit Prince Harry presented as his last chance to hold the tabloids accountable for years of predatory behavior. .
News Group Newspapers issued a “full and unequivocal apology” to Harry for hacking his phone and intruding into his private life, and said that a private investigator hired by one of the tabloid newspapers, The Sun, “unlawfully admitted to the act. This is the first time a news group has admitted to wrongdoing involving the paper.
The company also apologized for past intrusions by journalists into the private life of Prince Harry's mother, Princess Diana, who was chased by photographers and died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.
“We acknowledge and apologize for the pain we have caused the Duke and the damage we have caused to his relationships, friendships and family, and have agreed to pay him significant compensation,” the company said in a statement. was given another title, “Duke''. Duke of Sussex.
The settlement, announced a day after the long-awaited trial was scheduled to begin, will clear News Group Newspapers of phone hacking and other charges it used to dig up information about Prince Harry and other celebrities more than a decade ago. He was spared weeks of damaging testimony about illegal methods. .
And Prince Harry, 40, the second son of Charles III, was spared major financial risk no matter how he behaved in court. According to British law, Harry would have had to pay the legal costs of both parties had the court not awarded him a settlement amount offered by News Group Newspapers.
The News Group newspapers have not disclosed how much they have agreed to pay to Prince Harry and his fellow claimant, former Labor Party deputy leader Tom Watson, but the News Group newspapers did not disclose the amount they had agreed to pay to Prince Harry and his fellow claimant, former Labor Party deputy leader Tom Watson, but the News Group newspapers did not disclose the amount they had agreed to pay to Prince Harry and his fellow claimant, former Labor Party deputy leader Tom Watson. In both cases, he issued a clear apology. He said the amount was “considerable.”
The company apologized to Watson for the “unwarranted intrusions into his private life by the News of the World from 2009 to 2011 while he was in government,” including that Watson was “intruded into his private life in 2009 and 2011.” “This included being placed under surveillance by journalists.” “News of the World'' and those who were directed by it. ”
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