Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have had a fraught relationship with the British Royal family. Their discomfort living in Buckingham Palace reached its pinnacle in 2020 when the couple stepped down from their royal duties. This irked everyone including King Charles.
Recently, the Duke of Sussex’s court documents have unveiled that the royals paid a hefty sum to Rupert Murdoch over a phone hacking claim. Charles also reportedly tried to stop Harry from going to court for it. So let us find out the details of this phone hacking case.
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What Is The Phone Hacking Case Involving Prince Harry And Prince William?
According to CNN, Prince Harry is suing Rupert Murdoch’s ‘The Sun‘ newspaper over illegal information gathering. Murdoch’s News Corp had received an undisclosed settlement with Prince William.
The lawsuit states that the News Group Newspapers illegally hacked into the phones, intercepted voicemail messages, and obtained private information about the royals. Harry’s lawyers have said that Murdoch paid a “very large sum” to William to settle the phone hacking claims.
Harry has also unveiled that his late grandmother Queen Elizabeth II was also aware of these talks of settlement. In 2007, the news of the alleged phone hacking of the British royals surfaced. It again resurfaced in 2010 and 2011 when it was revealed that the UK police were also involved in it.
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King Charles Tried To Stop Harry From Filing The Lawsuit
Harry has revealed in a witness statement that he was “summoned to Buckingham Palace” to drop the lawsuit as it will affect his family’s reputation.
“The reason for this was to avoid the situation where a member of the Royal Family would have to sit in the witness box and recount the specific details of the private and highly-sensitive voicemails that had been intercepted,” he said.
Harry said that courtiers were “incredibly nervous” about the leak of an intimate phone call between King Charles and Camilla when the former was married to Princess Diana. In the court documents, Harry said in 2018 he was feeling “frustrated that nothing had been resolved” regarding the phone hacking claims.
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