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Prince Harry and tabloid reach financial deal

Prince Harry had initiated legal proceedings against Rupert Murdoch’s group.

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Prince Harry has reached a financial agreement with the owner of the tabloid “The Sun” ending the proceedings he had initiated against Rupert Murdoch’s group, David Sherborne, the lawyer for the youngest son of King Charles III, announced on Wednesday.

This last-minute agreement allows Harry and News Group Newspapers (NGN), owner of the “Sun” and the defunct News of the World, to avoid a trial, which was initially scheduled to begin Tuesday and last several weeks.

Harry accused the publications of having used, in particular through private detectives, illegal processes to collect information intended to feed articles about him more than a decade ago.

“I am pleased to announce to the Court that the parties have reached an agreement,” the prince’s lawyer said Wednesday morning before the High Court in London.

NGN has apologized to Harry for “phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators” working for News of the World, which closed in 2011, and will pay him compensation. “substantial damages,” continued the lawyer.

Concerning the tabloid T’he Sun, the group apologizes for the newspaper’s “serious intrusion” between 1996 and 2011 into Harry’s private life, “including incidents linked to illegal activities carried out by private investigators” .

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The group also apologized to the prince for “the impact that the extensive coverage and serious intrusion into his private life and that of Diana, Princess of Wales, his late mother, had on him, particularly during his young years.

Responsible

Prince Harry, 40, has launched a legal battle against the powerful British tabloid press.

He always held the paparazzi responsible for the death of his mother Diana in 1997 in .

In 2023, he won a major victory against the tabloid press by obtaining the conviction of the editor of the “Daily Mirror” for articles resulting from the hacking of telephone messages.

In 2023, Harry testified against the publisher of the Daily Mirror (MGN), becoming the first member of the royal family to give evidence in court in over a hundred years.

The Duke of Sussex, now retired from the royal family, lives in California with his wife, Meghan, and their two children.

(afp)

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