Meghan Markle’s lawyers are heading to court this week to try and settle her lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, which she is suing for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement after they published excerpts from her 2018 letter to her father, Thomas Markle.
The Associated Press reported that Meghan’s lawyers asked a British judge to settle the lawsuit on Tuesday in her favor before it goes to trial, arguing that the publisher has “no real prospect” of winning the case. The Associated Press has been fighting back against the lawsuit from the beginning, and a full trial is scheduled to take place at the High Court in London in the fall of this year.
“At its heart it’s a very straightforward case about the unlawful publication of a private letter,” Meghan’s lawyer, Justin Rushbrooke, said at a remote hearing. He added that when Meghan right they letter, she fully expected that “a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father” would remain private, calling the publication of the letter “a plain and a serious breach of her rights of privacy.”
Lawyers for the Associated Press, however, are not having any of it. They’re firing back by accusing Meghan of making her personal information public by cooperating with the authors of the tell-all “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of the Modern Royal Family.” Though Meghan long denied collaborating with royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand for the book, she has since admitted that she allowed someone close to her to talk to them.
Thomas, who Meghan is estranged from, gave permission for Associated Newspapers to publish portions of the letter to “set the record straight” after reading a People article in which various close friends of Meghan’s talked about talked about his falling out with his daughter. He claimed in a witness statement submitted by the defense that the article in question “had given an inaccurate picture of the contents of the letter and my reply and had vilified me by making out that I was dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted, leaving a loyal and dutiful daughter devastated.”
“I had to defend myself against that attack,” Thomas continued. “The letter was not an attempt at a reconciliation. It was a criticism of me. The letter didn’t say she loved me. It did not even ask how I was. It showed no concern about the fact I had suffered a heart attack and asked no questions about my health. It actually signaled the end of our relationship, not a reconciliation.”
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