Prince Harry in settlement talks with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers

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Prince Harry’s lawyers are in eleventh-hour negotiations with Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspaper business to settle claims over illegal information gathering at the publication, London’s High Court has heard.

It Duke of Sussex previously insisted it was determined to continue the case even after other claimants, including Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller and numerous 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 QC, acting for the publisher, told the High Court that the two sides were involved in “settlement discussions”.

The court heard that the youngest son of King Charles III is the sole plaintiff in the High Court case, along with former Labor deputy leader Lord Tom Watson, whose lawyers are also negotiating.

NGN was not immediately available for comment.

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