One of the sensational claims in Prince Harry’s legal case against News UK appears difficult to prove
between Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper group and the monarchy to stop members of the royal family suing over phone hacking.Queen Elizabeth II
Harry says the existence of this deal is one of the reasons he waited until 2019 to file legal proceedings against News Group Newspapers, the parent company of the Sun and theThe problem is that Rupert Murdoch’s media company has denied such a deal exists and claims Harry simply missed a legal deadline to file his paperwork.
According to his legal filings, the deal between the royal household and “senior executives” at Murdoch’s company would ensure members of the royal family could only bring phone-hacking claims at the conclusion of ongoing phone-hacking cases, and “at that stage the claims would be admitted or settled with an apology”.
Harry claims Murdoch’s company tried to avoid keeping to its part of the supposed deal and issuing a public apology. “I suspect [Murdoch’s newspaper group] was banking on the public becoming bored of phone hacking after so many years and therefore, when it came to the end of the litigation whenever that would be, any apologies that it was forced to give wouldn’t really be newsworthy,” he said in his statement.
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