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Meghan Markle has lost the latest battle in her privacy lawsuit when the London High Court ruled that the tabloid could amend her case before a trial next year.
The judge, Francesca Kaye, said that while she did not weigh in on the strength of the Mail case, the amendments could not be said to be “indisputable or entirely fanciful.”
The tabloid, in a preliminary hearing last week, requested permission to amend its written defense of Meghan’s claim to argue that she “cooperated with the authors of the recently published book Finding Freedom to publish their version of certain events.”
The Duchess of Sussex is suing the tabloid over articles from February 2019, which featured parts of a ‘private and confidential’ letter from the Duchess to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.
Meghan’s legal team denied having “collaborated” with authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand for their royal biography Finding Freedom, arguing that the references in the book, published in August, were simply “excerpts from the letter drawn from the articles themselves. of the accused “.
Sussex’s lawsuit against the tabloid is based, in essence, on a letter. One the Duchess of Sussex wrote to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, after a series of high-profile dramas: first, her decision not to attend her daughter’s wedding in May 2018. Then a series of interviews after the media where she criticized her daughter and her husband.
During last week’s preliminary hearing, it was revealed that Meghan’s legal fees for her Superior Court case could cost up to millions of dollars.
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