Final arguments are being heard in a three-day legal battle by the Mail on Sunday to overturn a High Court ruling on its publication of a letter written by Meghan Markle to her estranged father.
Lawyers for the newspaper have said that the Duchess of Sussex crafted the letter to her father so that it would “pull at the heartstrings” if it was ever revealed to the public. They are trying to over turn the previous High Court ruling that the publication was unlawful by basing their case on this new evidence.
The Duchess of Sussex’s lawyers have said that, although Meghan Markle knew it might be leaked to the press, she did not want the letter to be seen publicly.
They argued in the court of appeal this morning that Meghan Markle would have had ample opportunity to disclose the letter to authors of an unauthorised biography but was “simply not prepared to go there”.
The Duchess of Sussex, 40, sued the newspaper’s publisher, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), over five articles that reproduced parts of a “personal and private” letter sent to her father Thomas Markle, 77, in August 2018.
