Prince Harry was suing News Group Newspapers over alleged unlawful activities carried out by journalists and private investigators working for its papers, The Sun and the now defunct News of the World,

Murdoch’s U.K.-based publisher of The Sun tabloid, News Group Newspapers, has agreed to pay “substantial damages” to settle Harry’s legal claim.

Prince Harry snagged a historic win in his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch ’s U.K. tabloids, receiving an unprecedented apology from the company for the intrusion and breach of privacy of the royal's life.

Prince Harry settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers (NGN) over alleged unlawful information gathering, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

Prince Harry has settled with Rupert Murdoch's NGN and received an apology over The Sun and News of the World claims.

In a last minute deal made the day after the lawsuit was due to start, Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers agreed to pay “substantial damages” to Prince Harry and issued an apology, read by his lawyer David Sherborne, of the “serious intrusion by The Sun into his private life … including the unlawful gathering” of information on him.

The deal means that Harry will not be able to seek a court ruling validating his allegations that News Group Newspapers' journalists went to illegal extremes to dig up dirt on his life and that executives at the company helped cover up the bad acts.

From the US to South Asia, leadership in media and television has been predominantly male-dominated, with men at the helm of networks worldwide. Whether it is Rupert Murdoch of Fox, Subhash Chandra Goenka of Zee,

Harry had vowed to take his case to trial to publicly expose the newspaper’s wrongdoing and win a court ruling upholding his claims.

The apology by Murdoch's UK newspapers to Prince Harry is the latest in a string of major blows to the once unassailable media empire

Prince Harry will receive an eight-sum payment from Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers (NGN) following the news the Duke of Sussex came to a surprise settlement, after taking t