Release of private letter: Duchess Meghan sues "Mail on Sunday"

Duchess Meghan has initiated a lawsuit against the British newspaper "Mail on Sunday". Background is the publication of a private letter. This was "unlawful" and part of a "campaign by this media group to publish false and deliberately derogatory stories about her and her husband," said the law firm Schillings.

Because of the violation of privacy and copyright, they have therefore launched a lawsuit against the newspaper and the parent company Associated Newspapers, the law firm said.

Meghan and her husband, Prince Harry, claim to be paying for the costs. They want to donate possible compensation payments to a charity that campaigns for the fight against bullying.

"It destroys people and it destroys life"

Prince Harry said his wife had "sadly become one of the youngest victims of a British tabloid campaigning against individuals regardless of consequences." He spoke of a "ruthless campaign that escalated last year" - during Meghan's pregnancy and during her first months with her newborn son.

"I have been a silent witness of her private suffering for too long," Harry writes. But: "To hold back and do nothing would contradict everything we believe in." There is a point where one can do nothing but defend against this behavior of the media, "because it destroys people and it destroys life".

It was his biggest fear that the story would repeat itself. He saw what would happen if someone he loved were no longer treated like a normal person. "I lost my mother and now I see my wife fall victim to the same forces." In 1997, Harry's mother, Princess Diana, died in a car accident in Paris after being followed by photographers through the streets.

On Wednesday, the trip to Africa ends with Meghan and Harry

Prince Harry and Meghan spent the past few days traveling with their son Archie in southern Africa. On Wednesday they fly from Johannesburg back to London.

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At the conclusion of the ten-day trip, Meghan had once again campaigned for more women's rights in Johannesburg. If a woman has power, change that "absolutely everything" in a community, she said on Tuesday in conversation with academics and students of the university there.