U.K. tabloid The Mail on Sunday’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, lost its appeal to overturn the High Court’s ruling that it infringed upon Meghan Markle’s privacy when it published parts of a private letter she sent her father, Thomas Markle.

Per NBC, senior judge Geoffrey Vos said the contents of the letter “were personal, private and not matters of legitimate public interest.”

Hello! added that three judges made the decision in the Court of Appeals, with Vos reading their judgement: “It was hard to see what evidence could have been adduced at trial that would have altered the situation,” Vos said. “The judge [who originally decided the case] had been in as good a position as any trial judge to look at the article in People magazine, the letter and The Mail on Sunday articles to decide if publication of the contents of the letter was appropriate to rebut the allegations against Mr. Markle. The judge had correctly decided that, whilst it might have been proportionate to publish a very small part of the letter for that purpose, it was not necessary to publish half the contents of the letter as ANL had done.”

Meghan first won her case in February. It was and remains a major victory for the Duchess of Sussex who has been continually targeted and abused by British tabloids since joining the royal family.

Meghan released a candid personal statement today, reflecting on what winning the appeal meant to her. She included a delicate jab at the Daily Mail (The Mail on Sunday’s weekly counterpart) at the very end, writing, “These harmful practices don’t happen once in a blue moon—they are a daily fail that divide us, and we all deserve better.”

Read her statement in full below:

This is a victory not just for me, but for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what’s right. While this win is precedent setting, 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.

From day one, I have treated this lawsuit as an important measure of right versus wrong. The defendant has treated it as a game with no rules. The longer they dragged it out, the more they could twist facts and manipulate the public (even during the appeal itself), making a straightforward case extraordinarily convoluted in order to generate more headlines and sell more newspapers—a model that rewards chaos above truth. In the nearly three years since this began, I have been patient in the face of deception, intimidation, and calculated attacks.

Today, the courts ruled in my favor—again—cementing that The Mail on Sunday, owned by Lord Jonathan Rothermere, has broken the law. The courts have held the defendant to account, and my hope is that we all begin to do the same. Because as far removed as it may seem from your personal life, it’s not. Tomorrow it could be you. These harmful practices don’t happen once in a blue moon—they are a daily fail that divide us, and we all deserve better.
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