The Duchess of Sussex has been the target of racist harassment for years.
Published February 11th
Written by Paul Meara
Meghan Markle has won a big legal battle against Associated Newspapers over privacy and copyright infringement.
On Thursday (February 11), the Duchess of Sussex issued a statement after winning her claim against the
Mail on Sunday’s publishers, who published five articles in February 2019 that reproduced parts of the handwritten letter she sent her father, Thomas Markle, following her royal wedding to
Prince Harry in May 2018. These tactics (and those of their sister publications
MailOnline and the
Daily Mail) are not new; in fact, they ve been going on for far too long without consequence, Markle said in her written statement, according to
Meghan Markle Wins Emphatic Victory in Tabloid Privacy Case
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The Duchess of Sussex sued the
Mail on Sunday for printing what her lawyers described as a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father.
In the handwritten note, she begged him to stop giving interviews to the media and accused him of breaking her heart into a million pieces.
Thomas Markle handed the document to the newspaper alongside an interview in which he said he was expecting an olive branch but instead found it to be an attack on him.
Meghan sued the newspaper for breach of copyright and privacy and applied for a quick and easy win with no trial, saying the