The jury in Britain's phone hacking trial has been shown an email from the News of the World's former royal editor Clive Goodman to Andy Coulson detailing payments to Palace police.
The two men are among eight people - including Rebekah Brooks - who deny several charges at the Old Bailey.
Long affair
It comes after yesterday's revelations in court that former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were having an affair, at the same time their reporters are accused of hacking into phones.
They both deny conspiring to hack mobiles - something the prosecution at the Old Bailey claims is not credible because of their close relationship while they were running the paper.
Six other people deny a range of charges against them.
The affair lasted for six years between 1998 and 2004, both Brooks and Coulson separately got married to other people during that period.
The reason it was read to the court, which the prosecuting counsel wanted to make abundantly clear, was not because he wasn't attempting to intrude on Brooks and Coulson's privacy but to demonstrate that they were so close that what one knew, the other knew, pointing to their shared involvement in a conspiracy at the News of the World to intercept voice messages and publish the results.
Journalist Roy Greenslade spoke to Newstalk's Pat Kenny show:
