Tampongate rears its ugly head again. Unfortunate timing for Charles and Camilla.

"Rupert Murdoch’s media business secretly paid Prince William a “very large sum of money” to quietly settle a phone-hacking claim, according to new court filings.

Details of the settlement were given in legal documents submitted by his brother, Prince Harry, as part of his own legal battle with the publisher, which returns to the high court on Tuesday.

The royal claims there was a secret agreement struck between the royal family and “senior executives” at Murdoch’s company at some point before 2012. As part of this supposed deal the princes would delay legal proceedings against the newspaper group in return for receiving an apology at a later date.

The royal family did this after being scarred by the “Tampongate” incident when several publications obtained a phone call between Prince Charles and Camilla recorded while the couple were having an affair in the 1980s."



https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...s-prince-harry