A British court has dismissed an appeal by a tabloid paper against a ruling that it had breached the privacy of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, by printing parts of a handwritten letter she wrote to her estranged father.
Key points:
- The Mail on Sunday was seeking to overturn a High Court ruling that it breached Meghan's privacy and copyright by publishing a letter to her father
- Meghan had penned the five-page letter to Thomas Markle following a collapse in their relationship in the run-up to her wedding
- The Duchess of Sussex said the win was for "anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what's right"
The Mail on Sunday newspaper was seeking to overturn a High Court ruling that it breached Meghan's privacy and copyright by publishing parts of the letter she sent to her father Thomas Markle in August 2018, three months after her wedding to Prince Harry.
The decision spares Meghan from having to appear at a trial in which her father would also have given evidence.
The appeal was launched after high court judge Mark Warby earlier this year ruled in Meghan's favour, concluding the paper should print a front-page apology and pay her legal bills.
Lawyers for the Mail argued that Meghan, 40, had penned the letter knowing it could become public, a suggestion she rejected.
During the hearings at the appeal court last month, the paper's legal team produced a witness statement from her former communications chief Jason Knauf which they said cast doubt on her account.
Mr Knauf's statement also showed she and Harry had discussed providing assistance to authors of a biography about the couple, something she had previously denied.
That led to the duchess apologising but she said she had not intended to mislead the court.
The Court of Appeal said that this was "at best, an unfortunate lapse of memory on her part, but did not bear on the issues, and had been given no prominence in Associated Newspapers’ oral argument".
Meghan penned the five-page letter to Mr Markle following a collapse in their relationship in the run-up to her wedding, which her father missed due to ill health and after he admitted posing for paparazzi pictures.
The paper, which published extracts in February 2019, argued Mr Markle wanted the letter public to respond to anonymous comments attacking him by Meghan's friends in interviews with the US magazine People.
The Duchess of Sussex said in a statement that the win was not just a victory for her, but it was "for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what's right".
ABC/Reuters
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2021-12-02 10:58:01Z
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