Prince Harry's determined quest to hold U.K. tabloids accountable for decades of alleged unlawful intrusion into his life came to an unexpected conclusion as he settled his case against The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch,

The prince has agreed to receive a settlement from the paper's owner, bringing a long-running legal battle to an end.

Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids. The prince has accepted damages and an apology from News Group Newspapers over years of phone hacking and other unlawful intrusion.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, moved to California after stepping back as senior royals in 2020. They call the wealthy, coastal city of Montecito home.

Prince Harry dramatically settled his five-year-long privacy case with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) Wednesday moments before the case was due to open in London’s High Court.

Prince Harry's case against Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group is due to return to court on Wednesday with the possibility the warring sides have thrashed out a last-minute deal to settle claims of widespread wrongdoing at the publisher.

The deal means that Harry will not be able to seek a court ruling validating his allegations that News Group Newspapers' journalists went to illegal extremes to dig up dirt on his life and that executives at the company helped cover up the bad acts.

News Group Newspapers offered a “full and unequivocal apology” to Prince Harry for the “serious intrusion” into his private life by the The Sun between 1996 and 2011.

The Duke of Sussex’s decision to settle his claims against News Group Newspapers brings an end to his attempts to expose the publisher and their misdeeds in open court.

Prince Harry settled on Wednesday a hotly-disputed lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloid publisher, which apologised for hacking the British royal's phone and agreed to pay him "substantial damages".

NGN also apologized to the Duke for the impact on him of the "extensive coverage and serious intrusion into his private life as well as the private life of Diana, Princess of Wales."