UK Duchess Meghan wins privacy case against tabloid newspaper

Meghan Markle had sued the British tabloid Mail on Sunday for publishing a letter to her father

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Britain in Sussex, on Thursday won most of her legal battle against a tabloid newspaper after a judge ruled over the printing of excerpts of a private letter she wrote to her father “Obviously too much and therefore illegal”.

Meghan, 39, wife of Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Prince Harry, claims publisher Related newspapers after a Post on Sunday tabloid recorded parts of the handwritten letter she sent to her fallen father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.

Judge Mark Warby ruled the articles violating her privacy, but said some issues related to the letter’s copyright had to be resolved at trial.

“The applicant had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private. Am Post Articles thwarted that reasonable expectation, ”said Judge Warby.

Ms Meghan wrote the five-page letter to Mr Markle after their relationship fell apart before she married Harry in May 2018, who lost her father due to ill health and after admitting he was setting for paparazzi photos.

In two days of hearings last month, her lawyers said the printing of the letter was “personal and sensitive” a “three-dimensional” attack on “her private life, her life. family and her letters ”and clearly violates her privacy.

The paper argued that The Duchess had always intended to make the content of the letter public and was part of a media strategy, revealing that she had admitted in court papers talking about about it with her communications secretary.

Am Post, which published sections in February 2019, said it did so to allow Ms Markle to respond to comments made by Ms Meghan’s anonymous friends in interviews with US magazine People.

“For the most part they didn’t do that at all,” Judge Warby said. “Taken as a whole, the publications were largely excessive and therefore illegal. No different judgment is expected following a trial. “

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