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

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Prince Harry’s lawyers are in hours-long negotiations with Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloid business to resolve claims of illegal information-gathering at the publisher, the Crown Court. The High Court in London heard.

the Duke of Sussex had previously insisted that he was determined to continue the case even after other claimants, including Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller and many other public figures, had accepted offers from the Murdoch News Group newspapers to drop their demands.

But on the opening day of the trial, Anthony Hudson KC, representing the publisher, told the High Court that the two sides were engaged in “settlement discussions”.

The young son of King Charles III is the only remaining plaintiff in the High Court case along with former Labor Party deputy leader Lord Tom Watson, whose lawyers are also negotiating a settlement, the court said. the judgment said.

NGN had no immediate comment.

This is a developing story