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\"Meghan
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – MARCH 09: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attends the Commonwealth Day Service 2020 at Westminster Abbey on March 9, 2020 in London, England. Credit: Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The treatment of the Duchess of Sussex by the British tabloids is widely thought to have played a major role in her and Prince Harry\u2019s decision to step back as senior royals and relocate from the UK to the U.S. in early 2020. Now, Meghan Markle has won a major battle<\/a> against one such publication, <\/span>The Mail on Sunday,<\/span><\/i> which published contents of a private letter she had written to her father, a story spread across five different articles in February of 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Markle won the privacy and copyright infringement case against Associated Newspapers<\/a> with the judge, Mark Warby, saying Markle “had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private. <\/span>The Ma<\/span><\/i>i<\/span><\/em>l<\/em> articles interfered with that reasonable expectation.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to the ruling, Markle said that she was “grateful to the courts for holding Associated Newspapers and The Mail on Sunday<\/em> to account.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“These tactics (and those of their sister publications MailOnline<\/em> and the Daily Mail<\/em>) are not new; in fact, they’ve been going on for far too long without consequence,” she wrote in a handwritten statement. <\/span><\/p>\n

“For these outlets, it’s a game. For me and so many others, it’s real life, real relationships, and very real sadness. The damage they have done and continue to do runs deep.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“The world needs reliable, fact-checked, high-quality news,\u201d she continued. \u201cWhat The Mail on Sunday<\/em> and its partner publications do is the opposite. We all lose when misinformation sells more than truth, when moral exploitation sells more than decency, and when companies create their business model to profit from people’s pain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

“But for today, with this comprehensive win on both privacy and copyright, we have all won. We now know, and hope it creates legal precedent, that you cannot take somebody’s privacy and exploit it in a privacy case, as the defendant has blatantly done over the past two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“I share this victory with each of you\u2014because we all deserve justice and truth, and we all deserve better.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Markle finished by thanking her husband, mother, and legal team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Meghan
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – FEBRUARY 13: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walk through the corridors of the Palace of Holyroodhouse on their way to a reception for young people at the Palace on February 13, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Credit: Andrew Milligan – WPA Pool\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Markle and Prince Harry have spoken out numerous times against the press, most notably when the Prince likened the way Markle has been treated to the way his late mother, Princess Diana, was treated before her untimely death in 1997. <\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement released on the couple\u2019s now-defunct website, Prince Harry wrote that his \u201cdeepest fear\u201d is history will repeat itself: \u201cI\u2019ve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person. I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope this win is a move toward a better treatment of women in the media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9593,"featured_media":13409,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"\nMeghan Markle Wins Legal Battle Against The British Tabloids For Letter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The treatment of the Duchess of Sussex by the British tabloids is widely thought to have played a major part in her and Prince Harry\u2019s decision to step back as senior royals and relocate from the UK to the USA in early 2020. 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