The publisher also argued that Meghan made private information public by cooperating with Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, authors of Finding Freedom, a sympathetic book about her and Harry. "To be clear, I did not want any of it to be published, and wanted to ensure that the risk of it being manipulated or misleadingly edited was minimised, were it to be exploited," she said. The hand-written five page letter to Meghan's dad Thomas Markle was "deeply personal" and "self-evidently was intended to be kept private", lawyers said (ITV) In her own written evidence, Meghan, 40, said she had not believed that her father "would sell or leak the letter, primarily because it would not put him in a good light". Knauf said Meghan asked whether she should address her father in the letter as "Daddy", adding that "in the unfortunate event that it leaked, it would pull at the heartstrings". He quoted from a witness statement in which Knauf said the Duchess "asked me to review the text of the letter, saying 'obviously everything I have drafted is with the understanding that it could be leaked'." Correspondence between Meghan and her then-communications secretary Jason Knauf (pictured) shows the Duchess suspected her father might leak the letter to journalists (Getty)Ĭaldecott said the letter was "crafted with readership by the public in mind", and Meghan "was happy for the public to read it if Mr Markle were to leak it". Its lawyer Andrew Caldecott told judges at the Court of Appeal in London that correspondence between Meghan and her then-communications secretary Jason Knauf showed the Duchess suspected her father might leak the letter to journalists. However, Associated Newspapers disputed Meghan's claim that she did not intend the letter to be seen by anyone but her father. READ MORE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's fight for privacy after Oprah tell-all "The longer they dragged it out, the more they could twist facts and manipulate the public (even during the appeal itself), making a straightforward case extraordinarily convoluted in order to generate more headlines and sell more newspapers - a model that rewards chaos above truth."ĭuring the hearings, Meghan's lawyers had argued the five-page handwritten letter was "deeply personal" and "self-evidently was intended to be kept private".
The defendant has treated it as a game with no rules," Meghan said. "From day one, I have treated this lawsuit as an important measure of right versus wrong. The Duchess of Sussex issued a statement praising the win as one for everyone (YouTube/BrightlyStorytime)
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In her statement (read full statement below), the 40-year-old said she had "been patient in the face of deception, intimidation, and calculated attacks" during the three years of the case.
The Court of Appeal upheld the High Court ruling from February, which said the publication of parts of the letter Meghan wrote to her dad after she married Prince Harry in 2018 was "manifestly excessive and hence unlawful".
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