Britain’s Prince William has reportedly been accused of accepting large sums of money from newspaper owners to settle phone-hacking cases.
This comes after Prince Harry sued newspaper owners for illegally gathering information.
According to reports, the documents submitted by Prince Harry’s lawyer in the High Court during the legal proceedings against ‘News Group Newspapers’ have revealed this payment made by the newspaper owners in 2020, but in these documents It was not disclosed how much Prince William was paid in total to settle the historical claims.
According to a witness statement from Prince Harry, the newspaper’s owners made a ‘secret deal’ with Buckingham Palace officials to end legal claims made by members of the royal family.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the spokesman for the Prince of Wales has refused to comment on the aforementioned legal proceedings.
Harry’s lawyers claim that the deal, the details of which have not been disclosed in court, has caused delays in bringing their case to court.
Prince Harry says he first learned of the secret deal in 2012 and believed he and his brother had been personally targeted.
When William and Harry consulted their top lawyers, they said they were told they could not take legal action over the matter.
It was argued that a secret deal had been struck between the royal palace and senior executives of Newsgroup Newspapers, under which the royals would come forward with phone-hacking claims at the end of all other cases. will be brought and meanwhile the claim will be accepted and settled with forgiveness.
The reason for this was to avoid a situation where any member of the royal family would have to sit in the dock and divulge specific details of a private and highly sensitive subject.
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