What have Prince Harry and NGN said about their settlement - and what happens next?
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Prince Harry has settled his case against the publisher of The Sun – six years after he launched his lawsuit against the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Group Newspapers (NGN). The Duke of Sussex and Labour's former deputy leader Tom Watson were due to take their claims over alleged unlawful gathering to the High Court.
But on what should have been the second day of the trial, last-minute negotiations led to a settlement. Lawyers for both sides have issued statements - and while they've agreed to call off the trial, there are still discrepancies in how each team views the case.
What has NGN said about the News Of The World?. As NGN has pointed out, phone hacking at the News Of The World was not due to be part of the trial - but its statement opens with an "unequivocal apology" to Harry for "phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators" working for the Sunday paper.
Phone hacking allegations against the News Of The World were made public in 2006 when its then royal editor, Clive Goodman, and a private investigator were arrested. Both pleaded guilty to phone hacking and were jailed. Across the following five years, numerous other allegations against the News Of The World came to light and its former editor Andy Coulson was jailed for conspiracy to hack phones in 2014.
The paper was shut down by NGN in 2011, after allegations its staff had hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. As the News Of The World scandal unfolded, numerous public figures claimed they had been targeted by journalists at The Sun using similar, and they said illegal, tactics.
