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Duchess Meghan has won another victory in the legal battle with the British tabloids.
The newspaper group Associated Newspapers failed to appeal the verdict from last February.
A court in London had found Meghan right in the dispute with the British newspaper group Associated Newspapers over the publication of a letter to her father. The Court of Appeal in London has now upheld the High Court's judgment. "The content was personal, private and not of legitimate public interest," said Judge Geoffrey Vos, explaining the decision.
Meghan said after the decision this was a victory for anyone who is afraid to stand up for what's right in life. “While this victory sets a precedent, most importantly, we are now collectively brave enough to transform a tabloid industry that causes people to be cruel and that benefits from the lies and pain it causes «Said Meghan in a statement. Tabloids are tabloids in the UK. The courts had held the guilty party accountable, Meghan said, and everyone should do the same.
The ruling spared Meghan further public hearings.
The tabloids "Daily Mail", "Mail on Sunday" and the Internet portal "Mail Online" had published excerpts from a letter that Meghan had written to her father before her wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018.
Meghan's difficult relationship with her father
Meghan had sued Associated Newspapers for breach of their privacy and copyright law and sought damages.
The judges gave Meghan right on several occasions - but the publisher Associated Newspapers appealed.
At a hearing, the publisher's lawyers argued that Meghan had always known that the letter to the public would be punctured.
However, the court did not follow this line of argument.
Meghan has a difficult relationship with her father.
In the 2018 letter, she asked him to stop speaking to tabloids and making false claims about her in interviews.
The now 77-year-old pensioner passed the letter on to the journalists of the "Mail on Sunday".
Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry were married in May 2018.
In March 2020, the couple officially retired from the front row of the British royal family.
The family now lives mainly in Meghan's homeland, California.
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