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Lawyers for Prince Harry are in eleventh-hour talks with Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloid newspaper business to settle claims of illegal information gathering at the publisher, the High Court in London has heard.
The Duke of Sussex had previously insisted that he was determined to go ahead with the case even after other claimants, including Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller and scores of other public figures, accepted offers from Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers to drop their claims.
But on the opening day of the trial, Anthony Hudson KC, acting for the publisher, told the High Court that the two sides were engaged in “settlement discussions”.
The younger son of King Charles III is the only remaining claimant in the High Court case alongside Labour’s former deputy leader Lord Tom Watson, whose lawyers are also in settlement talks, the court heard.
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2025-01-21 08:30:06
