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Following a dramatic last-minute settlement in court, Prince Harry has again been victorious in his mission to take on the UK’s tabloid press. Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) – publishers of the Sun as well as the now defunct News of the World – offered the Duke of Sussex…

"She would be incredibly touched...and rightly proud," Diana's brother said of Harry's win.

Duke’s uncle says he showed ‘great tenacity’ in securing full and unequivocal apology from News Group Newspapers

Prince Harry has been engaged in a number of legal battles since stepping down as a senior royal in 2020

Earl Spencer said it was ‘wonderful’ Harry had ‘fought for – and gained an apology to his mother’

The earl praised the Duke of Sussex after he settled his case against the publisher of The Sun at the High Court.

This week Prince Harry achieved something few before him have: an admission of guilt and unlawful behaviour from the Murdoch media organisation. But he also fell short of his long-stated goal of holding the Murdochs to account in a public trial.

“Today the lies are laid bare. Today, the cover-ups are exposed."

The duke has received an ‘unequivocal apology’ from News Group Newspapers after ‘serious intrusion’ into his private life by The Sun.

Foreshadowing fresh restraints on media organisations, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said not everyone had the means to take media organisations on

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: By poisoning the well of journalism, phone-hacking undermined confidence in a trade that tries, for all its faults, to hold the powerful to account. Harry’s private battle has had a knock-on effect in aiding democracy – which needs a free press people can trust