It was at 10.16am – just 14 minutes before the trial was due to start in court 30 of the Rolls building of the Royal Courts of Justice – that the deal was struck.
After a frenetic 24 hours of legal wrangling, it was agreed that Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) would issue an apology to Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and admit for the first time that beyond the well-chronicled criminality at the now defunct News of the World, there had been “incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for the Sun”.
