Meghan Markle has shone the spotlight on Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie in explosive court documents.
In a series of statements made in legal papers submitted to the High Court, the 38-year-old noted that the royal sisters retain their titles while working.
The Duchess was responding to claims made in documents that she was "a member of the royal family and does not undertake paid work”.
Meghan questioned the suggestion by pointing to Beatrice and Eugenie, along with Prince Michael of Kent.
The latter royal runs a consultancy business, while Eugenie worked at an online auction firm before becoming a director at the London art gallery Hauser & Wirth.
Beatrice has worked at venture capital firm Sandbridge and later software company Afiniti, where she is currently employed as the Vice President of Partnerships & Strategy.
Meghan's assertion was made as part of a lawsuit she is bringing against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), the owner of The Mail On Sunday newspaper and MailOnline.
The former actress has raised issues with five articles, which included reproduced parts of a handwritten note she had sent to her father in August 2018.
Meghan claims her dad’s decision to make the letter public breached her privacy, copyright and data protection rights.
In a major development this evening it emerged in confidential papers that Meghan not only identified her pals who spoke anonymously to People magazine, but insisted she didn’t know they were doing so.
Meghan said she "did not know about the interview having been given, and only found out about it, and any reference to the Letter, after the People magazine article was published".
The friends have never been named, with the magazine only referring to them as “Meghan's inner circle – a longtime friend, a former co-star, a friend from LA, a one-time colleague and a close confidante”.
They are detailed as friends A, B, C, D and E in redacted documents but named in confidential papers submitted to the court.
Meghan’s lawyers insist the Duchess “discussed with Friend A that she was writing a letter to her father at the time of penning it', which was seven months before the article was published in People in February 2019.
Meghan also insisted her wedding to Prince Harry generated £1billion of tourism revenue for the UK.
The papers say this “far outweighed” the contribution of taxpayers' money towards crowd security.
This figure has been previously doubted by consulting firm Brand Finance, MailOnline reports, with a figure of £300million closer to the mark.
