Prince Harry V Rupert Murdoch
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
As Prince Harry brings his case against the News Group Newspapers (Murdoch) at the High Court, his lawyers have made an astonishing allegation: that his brother, Prince William, reached a payout over claims his phone had been hacked.
News of the settlement revealed in court documents - show the late Queen was involved in “discussions and authorisation” of the agreement.
The judge may yet decide to throw the case out for coming too late. But if not Harry, we are told, is determined to see it through to the end, whatever the personal cost. Murdoch has already paid out millions for phone hacking here - and last week nearly a billion dollars in the Dominion lawsuit. Was Tucker Carlson's rapid departure connected?
Also, we look at Joe Biden's 2024 presidential bid, discuss ageism in politics, and discover who Ming Campbell beat in a hundred metres race in Stanford in 1967.
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| 0:12.6 | The people that chased her through the into the tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying on the backseat of the car. |
| 0:21.7 | And those people that caused the accident, instead of helping, were taking photographs of her dying on the back |
| 0:27.7 | seat. And then those photographs made their way back to news desks. It is no secret that Prince Harry |
| 0:34.1 | loathes the press. We know that he blames paparazzi for the death of his mother, |
| 0:40.9 | and we know that he feels he threatened his wife and his family. But in real terms, what we are |
| 0:48.9 | seeing is Prince Harry prepared to go all the way to bring down a figure he has vilified one Rupert Murdoch, |
| 0:59.8 | who he believes is at the heart of so much of the damage that has been caused to him. |
| 1:05.6 | And he's taking him to court in a trial over phone hacking and over what the papers knew and spread |
| 1:15.0 | about his life over two decades ago. Harry isn't alone in this case. There are others who are with |
| 1:23.9 | him trying the case as well. But he is the most prominent and he has the biggest |
| 1:29.9 | potential to cause enormous damage, not only to the press and the way the press is organized |
| 1:37.3 | and its relationship with the royal family, but even the royal family in the institution itself. |
| 1:43.2 | It is clear that in his cold fury, Harry doesn't care. |
| 1:49.2 | He wants to destroy those people and those institutions, those papers that, frankly, he hates. |
| 1:56.3 | There is the potential for this to become the showdown of the decade. |
| 2:01.5 | Welcome to the news agents. |
| 2:06.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 2:08.6 | It's Emily. |
| 2:09.6 | And it's Lewis. |
| 2:10.5 | And in a moment, we're going to be hearing from John Sopal in Maryland with some... |
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