According to court testimony, King Charles attempted to quash Prince Harry's hacking allegation.

​King Charles tried to stop the Duke of Sussex taking legal action against newspapers over alleged phone-hacking, court papers claim. Prince Harry was summoned to Buckingham Palace and told to drop the cases due to the effect on the family. The case is one of three major cases that Prince Harry has made against tabloid newspapers, all alleging unlawful information-gathering. Prince Harry accuses the Sun's journalists and private investigators of illegal intrusion into his personal life, dating back to when he was a teenager. In documents revealed at the High Court, Harry claimed that Buckingham Palace and the newspaper group had struck a backroom deal, which is why he did not bring a claim earlier. The Duke of Sussex has been accused of making a secret agreement with The Sun newspaper group to settle the phone-hacking claims of his father, Edward Young, and his father's private secretary, Clive Alderton. According to court documents, the agreement was made in 2020 and the payment was made in 2020. NGN has denied that any secret agreement existed, with Anthony Hudson KC saying Harry's claim was "flatly inconsistent" with other parts of his case and there was "extremely vagueness" surrounding the circumstances of the alleged deal. The Sun's owners say that the Duke of Sussex's claim for damages should be scrapped because Prince Harry has run out.​