Prominent among the many claims in Prince Harry’s legal case against The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World is the allegation that there was a secret deal between the British royal family and News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of the media. previously mentioned and owned by tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
As the Duke of Sussex has alleged before the London High Court, his brother, Prince William, would have received a large sum of money as part of a deal to silence illegal wiretapping of family members that would have been carried out by the publisher, which had already faced multiple phone and computer hacking scandals.
According to Meghan Markle’s husband, both her late grandmother, Elizabeth II, and her brother, the Prince of Wales, were aware of the deal that ensured that the Windsors could only file legal claims for those wiretaps after the rest of the cases that were concluded. the publishing company had open in court.
The aim of the deal, Prince Harry claims, was also to ensure that members of the British royal family were kept out of the witness box in the Murdoch group’s landmark hacking case and to ensure there was no public feud with that powerful media group, which could write negative stories about the Windsors for decades to come.
This new revelation is part of one of the lawsuits that Prince Harry has against various British tabloids. Publishing group NGN urged Judge Fancourt to dismiss the High Court lawsuits on the grounds that they had been filed too late.
For this reason, the prince, who was following the hearing by videoconference from Los Angeles, has uncovered that secret agreement that according to him benefited his brother, because due to the deal he had not been able to sue at the time it occurred. According to the lawsuit, Enrique would not have benefited from that deal, and for this reason he is claiming the publisher, whose senior officials deny that there was such a secret agreement with the Windsors.
According to the Daily Mail, this statement from Prince Harry also includes that his family was “incredibly nervous about this (the Murdoch group’s wiretapping) and wanted to avoid it at all costs” after the damaging Tampongate call intercepted between King Charles and Queen Camila in 1989, who could not be judged because it was said that it was a random listening by an amateur who recognized the voices.
This revelation comes when Prince Henry is a few days away from seeing his family again in London for the coronation of Charles III. This will be the first time he’s met with the rest of the Windsors since he published his explosive memoir, though judging by this latest revelation, the prince isn’t running out of these truth bombs.
