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“The majority of what was published was about the claimant’s own behavior, her feelings of anguish about her father’s behavior, as she saw it, and the resulting rift between them,” said Judge Warby. “These are inherently private and personal matters.”
The judge also noted that the duchess “had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private. The Mail articles interfered with that reasonable expectation.”
Lawyers for ANL had argued that the letter’s copyright belonged to the Crown, but attorneys representing
Queen Elizabeth II refuted that. The assertion was even made that former Kensington Palace communications chief