Meghan Markle, legal strategy collapses: private letter written with the help of the Palace

It weakens Meghan Markle’s legal strategy who sued Associated Newspapers, editor of the Daily on Sunday, for publishing a private letter he sent to his father. Now it turns out that Harry’s wife wrote that letter with the help of Buckingham Palace staff.

In this way, the accusations that Meghan addressed to the British media of having violated his privacy for making public a private and confidential paper that she sent to her father Thomas. Lady Markle therefore moved legally because she claims that the publication of extracts from the “private and confidential” letter violated the law on the protection of sensitive data and copyright. It also seeks damages for the misuse of private information, contained in five articles published in February 2019.

However, from the court documents it emerges that the letter addressed to Thomas Markle was not written only by Meghan but she would have asked the help of the Palazzo staff to draft it. Therefore, the letter would not be “an intellectual creation”. If this were proved to be true, the case would skip.

Attorneys for the Associated Newspaper say the letter was “copied” from an electronic draft and that the Kensington Palace communications team “helped draft” the draft.

The documents read: “It is up to the applicant to prove that she was the only person who contributed to the drafting. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the defendant submits that Jason Knauf and / or other members of the Kensington Palace communications team contributed to the drafting of the electronic draft“.

The Associated Newspapers claims that Meghan leaked the details of the letter to the press through some friends and that Lady Markle was satisfied when five friends had confided and People to defend her, citing the famous letter.

Harry’s wife meanwhile took a first win slipping the cause almost a year. In fact, a 10-day trial was supposed to be held next January in which Meghan would probably be called to testify. The decision to postpone has been made despite Thomas Markle’s poor health. The man told the court: “None of the males in my family lived beyond 80 years. I could die tomorrow. The sooner this process takes place, the better ”. Thomas Markle now lives in Mexico and has explained his health problems in detail.

Meanwhile, Meghan lost another court battle to block claims that she collaborated with the bio’s authors. Finding Freedom, Carolyn Durand and Omied Scobie. The latter, who worked closely with the Sussexes for several years, recently exposed himself in defense of Harry for the refusal by the Palace to lay a wreath in his name in memory of the soldiers who died in service. To the point that the Sussex have decided to commemorate the Armed Forces with one of them particular ceremony in Los Angeles.

Meghan’s attorneys fiercely denied that Markle collaborated with the authors, even calling some passages from Finding Freedom “inaccurate and the fruit of creative license” in an attempt to remove her from it.

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