Has Prince Harry had the last laugh over Rupert Murdoch?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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After a long battle against the tabloids, Prince Harry has won an 8 figure settlement from Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers. For the first time, a lengthy apology admits the paper group used unlawful activities at The Sun, and hired private investigators to get their stories. Will anyone be held responsible?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:10.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | I love my brother. I love my family. I always do. |
| 0:17.2 | Nothing of what I've done in this book or otherwise has ever been any intention to harm them or hurt them. |
| 0:22.6 | And after many, many years of lies being told about me and my family, there comes a point where, you know, again, going back to the relationship between certain members of the family and the tabloid press, those certain members have decided to get |
| 0:42.3 | to bed with the devil. |
| 0:43.3 | You might have recognised that voice, Prince Harry, who has at last settled a long-running |
| 0:49.3 | lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch's news group newspapers over the gathering of unlawful information, |
| 0:56.6 | phone hacking, in other words, various means of spying on private conversations, |
| 1:02.1 | and he's got a whacking great payout. |
| 1:03.5 | But where does this leave NGN's chief executive, Rebecca Brooks, |
| 1:09.6 | because for the first time ever, unlawful activity has been |
| 1:14.4 | acknowledged at the Sun after years of denial that they had done anything wrong. So is anyone |
| 1:21.9 | going to be held accountable for this illegal activity? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:30.6 | The newsagents. |
| 1:32.3 | It's John. |
| 1:33.2 | It's Emily. |
| 1:33.8 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:34.3 | And we three have met again. |
| 1:35.9 | We happy three. |
| 1:36.7 | We happy three. |
| 1:37.6 | Wait, when was the last time? |
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