Prince Harry’s trial against Murdoch tabloids to go ahead, but hacking claims too old

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex arrives at the Rolls Building of the High Court in London, Britain June 7, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry can take some of his lawsuit against media magnate Rupert Murdoch's tabloids to trial, London's High Court ruled on Thursday, but claims of decades-old phone hacking were thrown out for being filed too late.

The court also rejected one of Harry's central arguments, that there had been a "secret deal" struck between Buckingham Palace and Murdoch's newspaper group to keep quiet the illegal hacking into voicemails of royals' mobile phones.