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MURDOCH’S NEWS GROUP PAID SETTLEMENT TO PRINCE WILLIAM, COURT FILING SHOWS

A legal filing by Prince Harry in his own case against News Group claims his
brother received “a huge sum of money’’ to settle phone-hacking allegations.

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Princes William and Harry walked behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it
left Buckingham Palace last year. Harry has said that William brought a claim
against News Group, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct tabloid News of the
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By Mark Landler

April 25, 2023

LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group paid Prince William, the heir
to the British throne, a “huge sum of money” in 2020 to settle claims that its
journalists hacked his cellphone, according to his brother, Prince Harry.

Harry, who is also suing Mr. Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, said in a legal
filing that the payment grew out of a “secret agreement” between the publisher
and the royal family, in which the family would defer legal claims against the
company and thus avoid the spectacle of having to testify about embarrassing
details from their intercepted voice mail messages.







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