By Heather Cichowski and Zach Harper, with files from Danielle Stacey
March 03, 2021
Duchess Meghan has been granted an interim payment of £450,000 (approximately $795,000) in legal costs in her privacy case against Associated Newspapers Ltd. (ANL), the publishers of
Mail On Sunday and
MailOnline. The Duchess of Sussex sued ANL for infringement of privacy, breach of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act over articles that included parts of a handwritten letter she had sent to her father, Thomas Markle, in 2018. On Feb. 11,
Lord Justice Warby granted Meghan a summary judgment over her claim of the misuse of private information in the case. Then, he ruled there were aspects of the copyright claim to resolve.