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Duchess Meghan (archive picture): Went successfully against the tabloids
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The statement was announced on the front page of the tabloid "Mail on Sunday": The British newspaper group Associated Newspapers has publicly admitted that it had lost a legal battle against Duchess Meghan over the publication of a letter to her father.
After hearings in January and May, the court found the Duchess of Sussex right, the brief statement said.
It found that "Associated Newspapers infringed their copyright by publishing excerpts of their handwritten letter to their father in" The Mail on Sunday "and in" Mail Online "".
A "financial compensation" had been agreed.
Associated Newspapers made no apology.
The newspaper group failed a few weeks ago with an appeal against the judgment from last February.
"The content was personal, private and not of legitimate public interest," judge Geoffrey Vos justified the decision in early December.
Meghan said after the decision this was a victory for anyone who is afraid to stand up for what's right in life.
"The most important thing is that we are now collectively brave enough to change a tabloid industry that causes people to be cruel and that benefits from the lies and pain it causes," Meghan said in a statement.
Tabloids are tabloids in the UK.
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.
Lengthy litigation
Meghan had sued Associated Newspapers for infringement of their privacy and copyright and sought damages.
The judges gave Meghan right on several occasions - but the Associated Newspapers publisher appealed.
At a hearing, the publisher's lawyers argued that Meghan had always known 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 stop 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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