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The London High Court on Friday dismissed part of a claim Meghan Markle filed against a tabloid newspaper for violating her privacy.
Meghan is suing Associated Newspapers for articles in her Mail on Sunday newspaper printed in February last year that included parts of a letter she had sent to her father, Thomas Markle.
In a hearing last week, the newspaper’s attorney argued that the allegations that he had acted dishonestly and fueled the family rift should be removed from the case along with references to other articles on royalty that Meghan says were false.
“I agree that all three categories of allegations should be removed from the details of the claim,” Judge Mark Warby said in his ruling.
The duchess’s lawyers say the newspaper’s publication of her letter was a misuse of private information and violated her copyright. They seek aggravated harm.
As part of the claim, they had accused the Mail and other tabloids of harassing, humiliating and manipulating Thomas Markle, and of contributing to the consequences between him and his daughter. The two have not spoken since their stunning wedding to Harry in May 2018.
The newspaper rejected the accusation that he had acted dishonestly or maliciously by publishing excerpts from the letter he sent to his father in August 2018 and said it was “remarkable” that the claim about Markle’s treatment had been made without the duchess would have contacted him to see if he accepted it.
“Today’s ruling makes it very clear that the core elements of this case are unchanged and will continue to move forward,” said a spokesman for Schillings, Meghan’s law firm.
He added: “The Duchess’s rights were violated; the legal boundaries around privacy were crossed. As part of this process, the extremes to which The Mail on Sunday used distorting, manipulative and dishonest tactics to attack the Duchess of Sussex they have been fully exhibited. ”
Meghan and Harry now live in the Los Angeles area after giving up their royal roles in late March.
The case will continue with a full trial, but a date has not yet been set for it.
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