London – Britain's Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against News Group Newspapers, the British newspaper group owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, his lawyer told CBS News.

In a 2019 lawsuit filed by Harry along with a former senior British lawmaker, they sued the News Group for alleged wrongdoing by both tabloid journalists and private investigators working for its newspapers, The In the Sun and other newspapers in circulation: News of the World. It is one Many lawsuits filed by Harry Against British newspapers.

On Tuesday, Emma Jones, a board member of the Hacked Off advocacy group, which is working with Harry on his lawsuit, said the trial was scheduled to resume that morning, but both sides had asked for more time as settlement talks continued. .

Jones said “a huge amount of money will be transferred,” but he said he didn't know the exact amount.

He said Harry also wanted “some kind of admission … that goes to NGN (News Group). Some kind of acknowledgment of what happened,” Jones said.

“He doesn't want to just walk away from this with an apology. He wants something tangible that he can say well, you know, 'At least I've proven my point,'” Jones said as the talks continued on Tuesday.

The News Group has filed numerous lawsuits over allegations of phone hacking and illegal information gathering, and has settled more than 1,300 involving politicians and celebrities.However, it has always denied that the Sun newspaper was involved in any wrongdoing activities, or senior officials were aware of any illegality and tried to cover it up.

Harry previously said he wanted to go to court to get the truth, not to get a payout, after other claimants settled out of court.

In court documents that emerged in 2023. Prince Harry insisted that his brother, the heir to the British throne, Prince William, quietly received a “very large amount of money” in 2020 in a phone-hacking deal with Murdoch's British newspaper group.