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Prince Harry’s lawyers are in eleventh-hour negotiations with Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspaper to settle allegations of illegal information gathering by the publisher, the High Court in London has heard.
The Duke of Sussex had previously insisted he was determined to press ahead with the case even after other plaintiffs, including Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller and a host 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, representing the publisher, told the High Court the two sides were involved in “settlement discussions”.
The younger son of King Charles III is the only remaining plaintiff in the High Court case alongside former Labor deputy leader Lord Tom Watson, whose lawyers are also in settlement talks, the court heard.
NGN was not immediately available for comment.
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