London | Prince William quietly received “a very large sum of money” in a 2020 settlement with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire for phone hacking, according to court documents aired on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) in one of his brother’s lawsuits.

Prince Harry’s lawyer revealed the unspecified payout in a summary of arguments about why the royal’s lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun and now-defunct News Of The World should not be thrown out. The suit alleges the newspapers unlawfully gathered information in a scandal dating back two decades.

AP