No love for the royal family, even lapsed royalty, but I’m pleased to see Harry beating the Scum at last because fuck them even more:
The Duke of Sussex has settled his high court legal action at the eleventh hour against the publisher of the Sun, News Group Newspapers (NGN).
NGN offered “a full and unequivocal apology” to Prince Harry “for the phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators instructed by them” at the News of the World.
It will also pay “substantial damages” as the two sides settled their legal claim, Harry’s barrister, David Sherborne, has told the high court.
On Wednesday morning, Sherborne said: “I am pleased to announce to the court that the parties have reached an agreement. As a result of the parties reaching an agreement I would ask formally that the trial is vacated.”
Slightly puzzled by this line in the apology, though:
It is also acknowledged, without any admission of illegality, that NGN’s response to the 2006 arrests and subsequent actions were regrettable.
I presume the arrests in question were those of Clive Goodman, the Scum’s royal editor, and Glen Mulcaire, the PI working with him. Both were arrested in 2006 and jailed the following year, then they both took action against the paper for unfair dismissal, which the paper settled with both. Is that what they’re calling “regrettable” here? And no “admission of illegality” despite having, you know, admitted that a couple of paragraphs earlier? I don’t know. But as long as they’re losing money from whatever they did wrong, I’m fine with it…
