Prince Harry's Buckingham Palace "Phone Hacking" Claims Thrown Out Of Court

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Prince Harry’s lawsuit against media magnate Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids is officially set to proceed. Yet the Royal is facing a big blow after the claims of phone hacking were thrown out for being filed too late.

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00:00 Prince Harry's phone hacking trial is set to move forward.

00:02 London's highest court ruled that this will be proceeding,

00:04 but the claims of decades old phone hacking

00:06 were thrown out for being filed too late.

00:08 Prince Harry's lawsuit against media magnate,

00:14 Rupert Murdoch's tabloids is officially set to proceed.

00:17 Yet the Royal is facing a big blow

00:19 after the claims of phone hacking were thrown out.

00:22 It's Daniel Lewandow reporting all the details.

00:23 The court rejected one of Harry's central arguments

00:26 for his upcoming case.

00:27 Claims that there had been a quote, "secret deal"

00:29 struck between Buckingham Palace and tabloids

00:31 to keep the group quiet on the family

00:32 have been thrown out.

00:34 Harry, the youngest of the Royals,

00:35 is suing news group newspapers

00:37 over the alleged invasion of privacy

00:39 the family suffered by tabloids, including the son.

00:42 Other tabloids named in the suit include News of the World,

00:45 which ran from the 1990s until 2016.

00:47 Now, this is just one of four cases that Prince Harry

00:50 is pursuing at the High Court against British Publications.

00:53 His hope is to hold tabloid executives

00:55 for lying and covering up what he claims to be

00:58 a wide scale of wrongdoings against the Royal family.

01:00 Harry pointed out the media has been a large demise

01:03 for his personal relationships in life,

01:05 including the 1997 death of his mother, Princess Diana.

01:08 Back in 2012, NGN apologized for alleged hacking

01:11 by its journalists and shut down due to the backlash.

01:14 But the news group has rejected the claims

01:16 that the same allegations happened by staff at the son.

01:19 And Harry's lawyer said the Prince

01:21 did not make a claim sooner due to the standing agreement

01:23 between Buckingham Palace and figures at NGN.

01:26 In addition, brother Prince William settled for a quote,

01:29 "huge sum" against NGN for the phone hacking claims.

01:32 But in the latest update for the trial,

01:34 Judge Timothy Fancourt said that he could not conclude

01:36 that there was quote,

01:37 "a sufficiently plausible evidential basis"

01:40 for Harry to allege a secret deal occurred.

01:42 But the rest of Harry's claims are set to be included

01:44 in the trial of January of next year.

01:46 Harry's legal team will now have to submit new details

01:48 of claims against NGN,

01:50 excluding the phone hacking ahead of next year's trial.

01:53 In court documents, lawyers suggest some of the hacking

01:55 took place as recently while he was dating Meghan Markle

01:58 in early stages of their relationship.

02:00 Harry claims his son instructed a private investigator

02:02 to obtain information,

02:03 including her social security number.

02:05 Harry claims that King Charles and Camilla

02:07 conspired through royal aides into planting stories

02:10 about him in newspapers as well

02:12 to enhance their reputations

02:13 or distract from any wrongdoings they may have committed.

02:16 Now this has left a lot of people divided

02:17 on their stance on Prince Harry ahead of this trial.

02:19 Back in June of 2023,

02:21 Harry became one of the first royals

02:22 for more than 130 years to give evidence in court

02:25 where he appeared as part of another lawsuit

02:28 against Mirror Group newspapers.

02:29 For more on this story, you can find us on What's Trending.

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