Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers Apologizes To Prince Harry In Court As Settlement Reached In Privacy Case

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Rupert Murdoch‘s News Group Newspapers (NGN) has made a shock apology to Prince Harry and the pair have settled in court. In the past few minutes, the BBC reported NGN apologizing for phone hacking, and the impact this had on Harry as well as the impact of the “extensive coverage and serious intrusion on his private life,” including the coverage of his late mother, Princess Diana.

The NGN apology was “full and unequivocal” and for the first time included an admission of criminal activity by The Sun. “NGN offers an apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life, including incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun,” it read. “NGN also offers a full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators instructed by them at the News of the World.

NGN further apologises to the Duke for the impact on him of the extensive coverage and serious intrusion into his private life as well as the private life of Diana, Princess of Wales, his late mother, in particular during his younger years.” NGN went on to apologize to Lord Watson, the former deputy Labour Party leader who had also taken NGN to court. “Monumental victory” A statement from Prince Harry called the settlement a “monumental victory” and the apology a “historic admission” of guilt.

He said NGN had unlawfully engaged more than 100 private investigators on 35,000 occasions over 16 years. His lawyer David Sherborne read: “Far from being relics of a distant past, many of those behind these unlawful practices remain firmly entrenched in senior positions today,