Anushka Sharma –
Published On: December 03, 2021 at 15:15 IST
The Duchess of Sussex won the final step of her privacy case against a British tabloid, when three Senior Judges declared that the newspaper’s publisher had Violated her privacy by publishing parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father.
The Court of Appeal verdict, Meghan Markle claimed, was a victory of ‘Justice versus Wrong.’ She urged people to ‘Reshape a tabloid industry,’ which has long been the scourge of celebrities and the British royal family.
Associated Newspapers, the losing Claimant, said it was considering taking the case to the UK Supreme Court.
The High Court of the United Kingdom ruled in February that the publisher of The Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline website violated Meghan’s Privacy with five articles that reproduced a large portion of a handwritten letter she sent her father, Thomas Markle, after she married Prince Harry in 2018.
The publisher appealed, and a hearing was held last month. Dismissing the Appeal, Senior Appeals Judge Geoffrey Vos said Thursday that “the Duchess had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of the letter. Those contents were personal, private and not matters of legitimate public interest.”
In a statement, Ms. Meghan (40) said the ruling was “a victory not just for me, but for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what’s right.”
“What matters most is that we are now collectively brave enough to reshape a tabloid industry that conditions people to be cruel, and profits from the lies and pain that they create,” she said.
Associated Newspaper’ lawyers disputed Meghan’s claim that she didn’t intend the letter to be seen by anyone but her father.