Prince Harry and Meghan moved out of the UK earlier this year and ended up in California through Canada. While they aimed to “focus on the next chapter” pulling away Starting with their real “superior” roles and working to become financially independent, the couple has still had to deal with the paparazzi.
Now Prince Harry and Meghan are suing unspecified defendants for violating their privacy.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday, says the couple announced their intention to move to North America to escape “the UK’s relentless tabloid manufacturing.” She says the Daily Mail advertised their location after they moved to Canada, and again when they moved to Los Angeles.
“In a matter of hours, the paparazzi settled hundreds of meters away on top of the ridge that dominates the residence, hoping to capture family photos,” the lawsuit says. Harry and Meghan were “forced” to put up a chain link fence to block photos, but it wasn’t enough. “Some paparazzi and the media have flown drones just 20 feet above the house, up to three times a day, to obtain photographs of the couple and their young son in their private residence (some of which have been sold and published ), “According to the costume.
He says others have flown helicopters over the backyard of the Los Angeles property.
“The family has tried to ignore these physical and constructive violations as best they can and continue with their daily routine in these unique moments,” he says. “But the plaintiffs recently learned that certain paparazzi and their facilitators have crossed the red line for any parent.”
The couple claims in the lawsuit that they discovered that someone is trying to sell photographs of their 14-month-old son, Archie, “falsely claiming to have taken them to a ‘recent’ public outlet ‘in Malibu.”
“But Archie hasn’t been in public, much less Malibu, since the family came here,” the lawsuit continues. “It is clear from a description of the photographs being purchased that were taken from activities in the backyard of the residence, without the knowledge of the [couple]”
“The fact that the images in question remain in the possession of an unknown adult, who has already been shown and shared with hundreds, if not thousands of potential buyers, is disgusting and incorrect,” the lawsuit says.
Harry and Meghan have “any parent’s desire and responsibility to do whatever it takes to protect their children from this manufactured feeding frenzy,” says the suit.
The couple has named the defendants as “John Does” since they do not know who took the photographs and who is trying to sell them. They seek the “right to discover to discover the identity of those who took the photographs and of those who seek to make a profit by selling them.”
In a statement obtained by CBS News, the couple’s attorney, Michael Kump of Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP, said that “every individual and family member in California is guaranteed by law the right to privacy in their home.”
“No drone, helicopter or telephoto lens can take away that right,” said Kump. “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are filing this lawsuit to protect their young son’s right to privacy in their home without the intrusion of photographers, and to uncover and arrest those seeking to benefit from these illegal actions.”
This is not the first time that the couple has taken legal action. Last year, Meghan sued the editor from the British tabloid, Mail on Sunday, alleging that he illegally published a private letter that he sent to his separated father.
The royal couple accused the tabloid newspaper and its parent company, Associated Newspapers, of misusing private information, infringing copyright and violating a UK data protection law that went into effect in 2018, according to an official statement. The publisher also owns the Daily Mail newspaper and MailOnline.
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