In the legal dispute between Prince Harry and the British Mirrornewspaper group there is an out-of-court settlement. King Charles’ son has filed the remaining parts of his lawsuit against the British tabloid’s publisher Daily Mirror Settled over phone hacking in return for payment of a “significant sum”.
Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) wants to make an interim payment of 400,000 pounds (around 468,000 euros) within the next 14 days as reimbursement of costs and damages for the invasion of Harry’s privacy and other illegal snooping, said Harry’s lawyer David Sherborne on Friday at the High Court in London.
The final compensation amount is still being calculated, Sherborne continued. Harry did not attend the trial himself. The 39-year-old was last in London on Tuesday and Wednesday to visit his father, who was suffering from cancer. MGN said it was satisfied with the agreement.
In the legal dispute against the Mirrorgroup, Harry was awarded £140,600 in damages back in December after a judge found that phone hacking was widespread at MGN in the 1990s. Journalists of the newspapers Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People had obtained information about Harry’s private life by listening to telephone messages and marketed it for reporting.
Harry is involved in other court cases. These include lawsuits against the publishers Associated Newspapers Limited (Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday) and News Group Newspapers (The Sun), the tabloid that was discontinued years ago News of the World had published. This also involves illegal information gathering.