{"id":7764,"date":"2025-01-27T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/?p=7764"},"modified":"2025-01-27T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:36:01","slug":"royal-rift-continues-prince-harry-rejects-his-dads-generosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/royal-rift-continues-prince-harry-rejects-his-dads-generosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal rift continues: Prince Harry rejects his dad\u2019s generosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2019, Prince Harry filed a lawsuit against&nbsp;<em>News Group Newspapers, the publisher of&nbsp;<em>The Sun&nbsp;and defunct tabloid&nbsp;<em>News of the World. The Duke claimed the tabloids had obtained personal information illegally.\n\n\n\n<p>The long-running battle has finally come to an end, with Rupert Murdoch\u2019s&nbsp;<em>NGN&nbsp;offering the duke a public apology and an eight-figure settlement.\n\n\n\n<p><em>NGN&nbsp;issued the apology on their website. It read, \u201cNGN&nbsp;offers a full and unequivocal&nbsp;apology&nbsp;to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life, including incidents of unlawful activities carried out by private investigators working for The Sun.\u201d<img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/go.ezodn.com%5C/utilcave_com%5C/ezoicbwa.png%5C%22" alt='\"Ezoic\"'>\n\n\n\n<p>They also admitted they had intruded into the private life of Harry\u2019s late mother, Princess Diana.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/boreddaddy.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/10%5C/AD_4nXc8KQrBL7MeKB7WdSaoHWmTfvb6KBr_gzZti0NnMVC96ITJFczjdO6qis__XxbOsPpZUocAUDqJdu-OxKFLRVdEbH55SJfPxX7eCchRTpw-_q9GCtgCczyjyI3B8mjizFTq52uMujBbMuOXDOd4TIF3zks.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-67817\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Prince Harry during his visit to Colombia on August 15, 2024. | Source: Getty Images\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn a monumental victory today, News UK have admitted that The Sun, the flagship title for Rupert Murdoch\u2019s UK media empire, has indeed engaged in illegal practices,\u201d Harry and his co-claimant Tom Watson said in a statement read by their lawyer, David Sherborne, outside the High Court.<img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/go.ezodn.com%5C/utilcave_com%5C/ezoicbwa.png%5C%22" alt='\"Ezoic\"'>\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cToday the lies are laid bare. Today, the cover-ups are exposed. And today proves that no one stands above the law. The time for accountability has arrived.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>Before the court battle, which ended before it began, certain media outlets reported that&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/boreddaddy.com%5C/royal-source-reveals-king-charles-biggest-fear-in-meeting-with-prince-harry-the-key-to-ending-their-feud%5C/%5C%22">King Charles&nbsp;offered Prince Harry to stay at the Palace while in Britain.<img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/go.ezodn.com%5C/utilcave_com%5C/ezoicbwa.png%5C%22" alt='\"Ezoic\"'>\n\n\n\n<p>The Duke allegedly rejected the offer.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/boreddaddy.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2023%5C/09%5C/GettyImages-1140413157-1-768x1080-1-728x1024.jpg?ezimgfmt=rs:470x661%5C/rscb2%5C/ng:webp%5C/ngcb2%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-62037\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>LONDON, ENGLAND \u2013 APRIL 04: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attend the \u201cOur Planet\u201d global premiere the at the Natural History Museum on April 04, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips\/Getty Images)\n\n\n\n<h2 class='\"wp-block-heading\"'>Last year, Prince Harry disputed the Home Office\u2019s decision to cut his security protection while he was in the UK.\n\n\n\n</h2><p>Following his departure from royal life, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC) withdrew his automatic police protection. Additionally, his offer to pay for his own security was rejected because British police could not be hired privately.\n\n\n\n</p><p>\u201cIt was with great sadness for both of us that my wife and I felt forced to step back from this role and leave the country in 2020,\u201d Harry\u2019s statement, read by his lawyer Shaheed Fatima KC stated, as reported by&nbsp;<em><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.bbc.com%5C/news%5C/uk-67653280%5C%22">BBC.\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe UK is my home. The UK is central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the US. That cannot happen if it\u2019s not possible to keep them safe when they are on UK soil.\u201d<img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/go.ezodn.com%5C/utilcave_com%5C/ezoicbwa.png%5C%22" alt='\"Ezoic\"'>\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/boreddaddy.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/05%5C/GettyImages-2148962792-768x1070-1-735x1024.jpg?ezimgfmt=rs:470x655%5C/rscb2%5C/ng:webp%5C/ngcb2%5C%22" alt='\"\"' class='\"wp-image-65727\"\/'><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images\n\n\n\n<p>The Duke added, \u201cI cannot put my wife in danger like that, and, given my experiences in life, I am reluctant to unnecessarily put myself in harm\u2019s way too.\u201d\n\n\n\n</p><p>Royal experts argue that if Harry was indeed offered a stay at the Palace, he should have accepted it. Living inside the palace would have ensured him the security he was fighting for in court.\n\n\n\n</p><p>Please SHARE this article with your family and friends on Facebook.<img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/go.ezodn.com%5C/utilcave_com%5C/ezoicbwa.png%5C%22" alt='\"Ezoic\"'>\n\n\n\n</p><p>Love and Peace\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>In 2019, Prince Harry filed a lawsuit against&nbsp;News Group Newspapers, the publisher of&nbsp;The Sun&nbsp;and defunct tabloid&nbsp;News of the World. The Duke claimed the tabloids had <a class='\"mh-excerpt-more\"' href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/sciencesandnatures.com%5C/royal-rift-continues-prince-harry-rejects-his-dads-generosity%5C/%5C%22" title='\"Royal' rift continues: prince harry rejects his dad generosity>[&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7765,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencesandnatures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</a></p></div></figcaption></figure></p></a></em></p></figcaption></figure></p></a></p></figcaption></figure></p></em></p></em></p></em></em></em></p>