Duchess Meghan
Was your leaked letter purely a calculation?
Duchess Meghan is still fighting a court case against the British tabloid media.
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Associated Newspapers’ lawyer accuses Duchess Meghan of having known that the letter to her father is likely to be leaked.
A legal dispute is still raging in front of a court in London over whether the “Mail on Sunday” and “Mail Online” should have published the content of a letter from Duchess Meghan (40) to her father Thomas Markle (77). In February this year, a judge had actually agreed that Prince Harry’s wife (37) was right. But the publishing house Associated Newspapers continues to contest this decision. At a new hearing on Wednesday (November 10th) accused his lawyer Andrew Caldecott of the Duchess according to “The Washington Post”for having written the letter knowing that it will most likely reach the public.
This emerges from conversations Meghan is said to have had with a man named Jason Knauf, who at the relevant time worked as communications secretary for Harry and Meghan, but also for Prince William (39) and Duchess Kate (39). As a witness, Knauf testified that Duchess Meghan “asked me to check the text of the letter and said: ‘Everything I wrote was done with the understanding that it could of course be published.”
Duchess Meghan strongly disagrees
She even asked Knauf if she should address her father as “Daddy” in the letter. “In the unfortunate event that it is leaked, it would affect people’s hearts,” his testimony continued. For attorney Caldecott it is therefore clear that the letter was “made with a public readership in mind”. According to his argument, the Duchess was even pleased when her lines to Thomas Markle found their way to the public.
According to “The Washington Post”, Duchess Meghan contradicts this representation. At no time did she think that her father would “sell or publish the letter. Mainly because it would not put it in a good light”. Rather, it was important to her to formulate the letter in such a way that “the risk of manipulation or misleading processing is minimized”. Meghan feared most of all that individual passages could be taken out of context. According to her statement, however, she did not expect that the entire content would come to light.