Prince Harry said his brother was paid a 'very large sum of money' in an out-of-court deal with the publisher of 'The Sun' and now-defunct 'News of the World.'
Harry wrote:"The reason for this was to avoid the situation where a member of the Royal Family would have to sit in the witness box and recount the specific details of the private and highly sensitive voicemails that had been intercepted by ["The institution was incredibly nervous about this and wanted to avoid at all costs the sort of reputational damage that it had suffered in 1993 whenand another tabloid had unlawfully obtained and published details of an intimate telephone...
Harry said William's claim was settled in 2020, which was after the Duke of Sussex had already filed his own litigation in September 2019. The court filing reads:"As [Prince Harry] explains, his brother, HRH William, Prince of Wales, similarly brought a claim against NGN which it settled for a very large sumThe filing added:"It is important to bear in mind that in responding to this bid by NGN to prevent his claims going to trial, [Prince Harry] has had to make public the details of this Secret Agreement, as well as the fact that his brother, His Royal Highness, Prince William, has recently settled his claim against NGN...
In some of the court filings it is unclear to what extent the agreement referenced related only to theHarry's case also alleges phone hacking atJack Royston is chief royal correspondent for
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