News Group Newspapers argued that Harry didn’t deserve an exception to the six-year time limit for bringing a legal claim because he was aware of the phone hacking by News of the World. Harry is expected to testify in that case in June.
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Two other suits involve phone hacking, including a case against the publisher of The Mirror going to trial next month - three days after the coronation of Charles. The lawsuit is one of several Harry has brought in his battle against British newspapers. “This is used very much by (Harry) as ‘a shield not a sword’ against NGN’s attack.”
“It is important to bear in mind that in responding to this bid by NGN to prevent his claims going to trial, (Harry) has had to make public the details of this secret agreement, as well as the fact that his brother, His Royal Highness Prince William, has recently settled his claim against NGN behind the scenes,” attorney David Sherborne wrote. throne, later settled for a large, but undisclosed, sum. The court papers said William, Prince of Wales and heir to the U.K. He began pushing for a resolution in 2017 but said he “had enough” after the publisher “filibustered.” He filed suit in 2019.
Harry said he would have brought a lawsuit earlier if not for the agreement. “The institution was incredibly nervous about this and wanted to avoid at all costs the sort of reputational damage that it had suffered in 1993 when The Sun and another tabloid had unlawfully obtained and published details of an intimate telephone conversation that took place between my father and stepmother in 1989, while he was still married to my mother,” Harry said in his witness statement. Harry alluded to an incident that became known as “tampongate,” in which recordings were leaked of intimate conversations in which his father, now King Charles III, speaking with his paramour, now Queen Consort Camilla, compared himself to a tampon.
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