Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British News Group Newspapers for an apology and "substantial damages." Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British News Group Newspapers for an apology and "substantial damages." Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British News Group Newspapers for an apology and "substantial damages."

Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, shared a statement of his own after Prince Harry received an apology from tabloid

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

In a last minute deal made the day after the lawsuit was due to start, Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers agreed to pay “substantial damages” to Prince Harry and issued an apology, read by his lawyer David Sherborne, of the “serious intrusion by The Sun into his private life … including the unlawful gathering” of information on him.

Rupert Murdoch’s UK publishing business has paid out more than £1bn over the phone-hacking scandal and its subsequent legal fees, with the latest settlement involving Prince Harry reported to be at least £10m.

Prince Harry settled on Wednesday a hotly-disputed lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloid publisher, which apologised for hacking the British royal's phone and agreed to pay him "substantial damages".

Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers, a Murdoch-owned UK firm, for alleged illegal practices by its tabloids. NGN issued an apology for past intrusions into Harry's private life by journalists and private investigators.

News Group acknowledged "phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators" aimed at Harry. NGN had strongly denied those allegations before trial.

Princess Diana’s brother says she would have been ‘rightly proud’ of Harry after apology from The Sun - Earl Spencer said it was ‘wonderful’ Harry had ‘fought for – and gained an apology to his mother

While few people have received an apology from a Murdoch-owned publication, Prince Harry now has. But if you think this is the end of the long legal saga, you may well be wrong.

Prince Harry — who shares kids Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet with wife Meghan Markle — issued a lengthy statement after the ruling.