Following a dramatic last-minute settlement in court, Prince Harry has again been victorious in his mission to take on the UK’s tabloid press. Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) – publishers of the Sun as well as the now defunct News of the World – offered the Duke of Sussex a “full and unequivocal apology … for the serious intrusion by the Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life, including incidents of unlawful activities”.
They have also agreed to pay him “substantial damages” as well as legal costs. The total is likely to amount to at least £10 million.
This was a humiliating climbdown for the Murdoch press, which has denied for years that the Sun was ever involved in unlawful activity. Over the last 15 years News Group has settled over 1,300 claims, costing the company around £1.2 billion.
