King Charles Tried To Stop Prince Harry From Taking Legal Action Against Rupert Murdoch's Newspaper: Report
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Court papers have claimed that King Charles tried to stop Prince Harry from taking against newspapers.
Prince Harry was summoned to Buckingham Palace and was told to drop the cases against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper, according to a BBC report.
The Duke of Sussex is suing Murdoch's News Group Newspapers (NGN) at the High Court in London for multiple unlawful acts allegedly committed on behalf of its tabloids, the Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, from the mid-1990s until 2016.
NGN, which has paid out millions of pounds to settle more than a thousand phone-hacking cases, is trying this week to strike out Harry's claim, and that of British actor Hugh Grant, arguing they should have taken action sooner, according to a report by Reuters.
Harry railed against senior NGN figures and his own family, whom he has accused of colluding with the press to protect their image, saying a "secret agreement" was struck between Buckingham Palace and senior figures at NGN to avoid embarrassment, according to a 31-page witness statement.
