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Speaker 1: Okay. A dispute between Prince Harry and the UK tabloids

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Speaker 1: has finally reached a settlement. Prince Harry has been suing

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Speaker 1: the publisher of the Sun for I legally obtained private

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Speaker 1: information about him which was obtained between nineteen ninety six

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Speaker 1: and two thousand and one. So it's been very expensive

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Speaker 1: for him. That he settled. He has agreed to a

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Speaker 1: deal said to be worth more than twenty million New

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Speaker 1: Zealand dollars, and Rupert Murdock's tabloids, but not Rupert himself,

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Speaker 1: have apologized to him for a serious intrusion into his

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Speaker 1: private life. So I'm joined now by Royal correspondent Victoria Arbata.

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Speaker 1: Hello Victoria, good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: How is Prince Harry. What's his response been?

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Speaker 2: Well? Prince Harry issued a statement via his lawyer and

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Speaker 2: he described the outcome the settlements as a monumental when

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Speaker 2: he appeared to be absolutely delighted, if not a little

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Speaker 2: relieved that it is all over. You do have to

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Speaker 2: wonder if there's a part Pim that's a little bit

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Speaker 2: disappointed because he has previously talked about being a dragon

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Speaker 2: slayer holding the figures that involved to account and wanting

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Speaker 2: to have his day in court. But at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, the UK justice system is prohibitively expensive

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Speaker 2: that the cost would have been absolutely eye watering. So

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Speaker 2: hopefully this has given him the closure that he has

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Speaker 2: so long for.

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Speaker 1: So earlier in the program, I said Prince Harry has

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Speaker 1: taken the money and run, and people say, well, look no,

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Speaker 1: he's held them to account. But the fact is, Prince

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Speaker 1: Harry always said the dispute was never about the money

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Speaker 1: he was wanting. It wasn't he wanting yes, an apology, yes,

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Speaker 1: or the admissions, but he was also wanting a verdict.

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Speaker 1: He's not getting that now he's getting a sentiment instead.

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Speaker 1: So has he you know, has he has he taken

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Speaker 1: the money and run?

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Speaker 2: Will you raise a number of very valid points here,

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Speaker 2: And this is where it becomes quite complicated, certainly online

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Speaker 2: he's getting a lot of criticism from people that he

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Speaker 2: has settled. Then this is what's tricky when you promise

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Speaker 2: that you're not going to settle and you're going to

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Speaker 2: be a dragon player. And it was just a few

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Speaker 2: months ago in a forum with The New York Times

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Speaker 2: that he was saying that for him, as you said,

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Speaker 2: that this was never about money. It's about justice. It's

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Speaker 2: about holding the responsible parties to account. But there is

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Speaker 2: only so much litigation one can take. But where it

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Speaker 2: becomes really problematic is the UK justice system, which I

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Speaker 2: mentioned before and so without getting too dull about this,

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Speaker 2: in the crux of things are if he was offered

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Speaker 2: a vast sum of money as a settlement and he

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Speaker 2: chose to turn that down, if he got even one

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Speaker 2: penny less having one from the judge, then he would

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Speaker 2: be responsible for both costs on both sides. That is

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Speaker 2: a sum that I think even some of the world

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Speaker 2: billionaires wouldn't be able to wouldn't be able to do.

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Speaker 2: So I think he's got part of what he wants.

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned that apology. He got an apology on

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Speaker 2: behalf of his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. But

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Speaker 2: what he has to achieved is the Sun newspaper being

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Speaker 2: shut down or individuals personally being held.

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Speaker 1: Responsible, and also giving a president into the law, which

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Speaker 1: could have been handy in the future. But there we are.

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Speaker 1: So this apology wasn't just for Prince Harry, but what

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Speaker 1: about the risks of the royal family who were snooped

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Speaker 1: on as well.

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Speaker 2: Well. Prince William actually was the one that really achieved that.

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and eleven, he quietly settled with Murdock.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting that Prince Harry has previously criticized his

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Speaker 2: brother for settling. He thought that that was sort of

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Speaker 2: the coward's way out. I think he was determined not

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Speaker 2: to settle. But interestingly it was Prince William. It was

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Speaker 2: his case that resulted in the News of the World newspaper,

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Speaker 2: another of mngn's titles, being shut down. There were responsible

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Speaker 2: parties there that were convicted and given jail time. William

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Speaker 2: also received a settlement. All of that money he donated

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Speaker 2: to charity, and he received an apology for himself and

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Speaker 2: the wider royal family. I don't think it's right to

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Speaker 2: compare the two brothers because they were sort of fighting

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Speaker 2: to different different battles, if you will. They were doing

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Speaker 2: this independently. But Harry has not achieved quite what his

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Speaker 2: brother did. But what he did get is that the

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Speaker 2: Sun admitted to unlawful practices, which it hasn't done before.

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Speaker 1: Victoria, it's always a pleasure to talk to you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for taking time for us today that

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Speaker 1: is Victoria Abata, Royal Correspondent.

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