Meghan Markle has no plans to drop the legal action ahead of the hearing next year in her ongoing lawsuit against the publisher of the Mail on Sunday.
Thomas Markle,claiming that it breached her privacy as the letter contained her “deepest and most private thoughts and feelings.
Scobie also submitted a witness statement saying that the book was “independent and unauthorized,” adding that the couple had never been interviewed. However, in the book’s authors’ note, he and Durand acknowledged having spoken to the couple “when appropriate.” The hearing was the latest pretrial hearing in the duchess’s long and protracted legal action against the publisher of the, which in February 2019 published the letter Meghan had written to her father after her 2018 wedding. The defense claimed yesterday that the duchess discussed the letter with the communications team at Kensington Palace and had written it “with a view to it being read by third parties and/or disclosed to the public” in a bid to improve her public image.
The duchess, who has switched lawyers ahead of the court case in an effort to speed up proceedings, could come face-to-face with her father if he is called as a witness by the’s publisher. But while the face-to-face meeting would be deeply uncomfortable for Meghan, who has not spoken to her father for two years, she is adamant that she will have her day in court.
VF.com has also been told that the duchess has no plans to drop the legal action ahead of the hearing next year. “There’s no wavering,” a source close to Meghan said. “She is resolute that she intends to see this to the end. It’s costing a lot of money, but no one has been in the dark about the scale of this and what it’s going to cost. The duchess’s eyes were wide open when she went into this, and she feels as strongly now as she did then that she has to draw a line in the sand.
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