Mail on Sunday publisher says 2019 article had given duchess’s letter to
Thomas Markle a ‘wholly misleading gloss’
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The
Duchess of Sussex was “arguably” behind a “nasty and untrue” article about her father published in People magazine in the US, which he had the right to publicly address, a court in
London has heard.
On the closing day of a three-day appeal hearing brought by the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, lawyers representing Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) argued that Meghan had written a five-page letter to her father, Thomas Markle, “with potential public consumption in mind” and there was a public interest in correcting assertions made in the 2019 article.