LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids have made an extraordinary apology to Prince Harry to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit and will receive a substantial payout, his lawyer said Wednesday. .
Harry’s lawyer David Sherborne read a statement in court saying the newsgroup offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex” for years of illegal interference.
The Duke of Sussex’s trial at London’s High Court was just about to begin against the publishers of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World over decades of illegal spying.
Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles III, and another man were the only two remaining claimants out of more than 1,300 others who settled lawsuits against the newsgroup’s newspapers. Accused of hacking their phones And the investigators illegally interfered in their lives.
In all the cases that have been brought against the publisher since the massive phone hacking scandal. Murdoch was forced to close the News of the World in 2011.Harry’s case approaches trial.
