The BBC later reported that the settlements for Harry and his co-complainant, former Labour deputy leader Lord Tom Watson, cost NGN more than 10 million British pounds (or about $12 million), adding to the Rupert Murdoch –owned company’s more than 1 billion British pounds in payouts to settle claims over the long-running phone hacking scandal.

News Group Newspapers offered a "full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex for the serious intrusion by The Sun between 1996 and 2011 into his private life," Harry's attorney, David Sherborne,

Harry's settlement included an apology from NGN, who admitted to intruding on Diana's life when she was alive.