Back in February, the Daily Mail published a handwritten letter from Meghan to her father, dated August 2018.
It was the last straw in a series of Tom Markle scandals that saw Meghan’s horrible family (with the exception of her mom, who seems lovely) taking every opportunity to talk about her to the media.
And by media, I mean the tabloids like the Daily Mail, where journalists will sell their own mothers for the excuse to use the words “pert derriere” in a factually suspect article about a royal.
Fast forward to now, and Meghan is suing the Mail on Sunday for publishing her private correspondence, reports BBC.
Law firm Schillings, acting for the duchess, accused the paper of a campaign of false, derogatory stories.
The firm has filed a High Court claim against the paper and its parent company over the alleged misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018.
In a long, personal statement on his and Meghan’s official website, Prince Harry weighed in on the situation.
Unfortunately, my wife has become one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences – a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son.
There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face – as so many of you can relate to – I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been. Because in today’s digital age, press fabrications are repurposed as truth across the globe. One day’s coverage is no longer tomorrow’s chip-paper.
Up to now, we have been unable to correct the continual misrepresentations – something that these select media outlets have been aware of and have therefore exploited on a daily and sometimes hourly basis.
It is for this reason we are taking legal action, a process that has been many months in the making.
Referring to his late mother Diana, Princess of Wales, the prince said his “deepest fear is history repeating itself”.
He goes on to write and incredibly polite, yet angry, takedown of the Daily Mail.
The positive coverage of the past week from these same publications exposes the double standards of this specific press pack that has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months; they have been able to create lie after lie at her expense simply because she has not been visible while on maternity leave.
You tell ’em, Harry.
Any proceeds obtained for damages once the courts have issued a ruling will be donated to an anti-bullying charity.
I’m with the Royals on this one, so take them to the cleaners.
[source:bbc]
