Prince Harry hails 'monumental' legal win over Murdoch newspapers

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Prince Harry claims a ‘monumental’ victory over Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group on Wednesday, January 22.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/europe/prince-harry-monumental-legal-win-over-murdoch-newspapers/

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00:00Prince Harry claims a monumental victory over Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group on Wednesday, January 22

00:06The publisher settles the lawsuit, admitting unlawful actions at the Sun tabloid for the first time and paying substantial damages

00:13Harry had been suing News Group Newspapers, or NGN, publisher of the Sun and the now-defunct News of the World

00:19for allegedly illegally obtaining his private information from 1996 till 2011

00:25NGN also admits it intruded into the private life of Harry's late mother, Princess Diana

00:30A source familiar with the settlement says the damages involved an eight-figure sum

00:35NGN has paid out hundreds of millions of pounds to victims of phone hacking and other unlawful information gathering by the News of the World

00:42It's settled more than 1,300 lawsuits involving celebrities, politicians, well-known sports figures and ordinary people

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