Meghan Markle wins first battle against British tabloids

Meghan Markle has just won a major court victory in the UK.

The Duchess of Sussex has beaten the Associated Newspaper, publisher of

, for having published excerpts from a letter she sent to her father.

This is reported by the Reuters news agency.

The British High Court of Justice, based in London, has decided in favor of the wife of Prince Henry of England, 39 years old.

The judge in charge of the case, Mark Warby, has affirmed that the publication of these articles violated the privacy of the Duchess.

However, Warby has explained that the issues regarding the rights of reproduction of that letter will still have to be clarified.

The case dates back two years.

In late February 2019, the Duchess threatened to sue the newspaper - which she eventually did - for the publication a couple of weeks earlier of a personal letter she had sent to her father, Thomas Markle in August 2018, after his royal wedding with the grandson of Elizabeth II on May 19 of that year.

"Dad, I am writing this to you very much to my regret, without understanding why you have chosen to take this path, turning a blind eye to the pain you are causing," the Duchess tore the letter, handwritten and five pages long, from which it was made. echo

 on February 10, 2019. “Your actions have broken my heart into a million pieces, not only because you have manufactured unnecessary and unjustified pain, but because of the choice not to tell the truth when you are a puppet in this.

Something that I will never understand ”.

“If you love me, as you tell the press, please stop.

Please allow us to live our lives in peace.

Stop lying, stop creating so much pain, stop exploiting my relationship with my husband ”, Meghan told her father, who lives in Mexico and who did not attend her wedding after meeting that he had agreed on some photos with some paparazzi and then of having a heart attack.

"If you take a moment to pause, I think you will see that being able to live with a clear conscience is more valuable than any payment in the world," she insisted.

As the British newspaper has argued, they published the letter to respond to the comments that a series of anonymous friends had made to

magazine

to defend it, just a few days before.

The duchess's lawyers have affirmed in the two days that the hearings have taken place that bringing to light a "personal and sensitive" letter has meant "a triple assault" on Markle: "On her privacy, on her family life and his correspondence, ”according to Reuters.