Victorious in her lawsuit against the English tabloid the Mail on Sunday, Meghan Markle is not going to fill her pockets either. As reported by several media outlets on Wednesday January 5, including AFP, the newspaper published by the Associated Newspaper group agreed to pay a symbolic book damages, to settle the legal proceedings between him and the Duchess of Sussex, for misuse of private information.
On the other hand, the wife of Prince Harry will receive a more “important” sum for copyright infringement. Sum which, according to a spokesperson for the Duchess, will be donated to associations. In addition, legal costs amount to 300,000 pounds sterling (360,000 euros), all to be paid before January 7, according to a court document made public to British journalists by the defense of the Associated Newspapers group . According to the BBC, this document formally confirms that the editor of the newspaper, who had indicated that he was considering an appeal to the Supreme Court, accepts his defeat.
The facts date back to 2018, shortly after the glitzy wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. the Mail on Sunday had published excerpts from a personal letter from the former American actress to her father Thomas Markle, with whom he is in the cold. A missive in which the new Duchess of Sussex begged him to stop his embarrassing and false interventions in the media. On December 2, the British justice had won the case against the mother of Archie and Lilibet (2 years and 7 months) by rejecting the appeal of the newspaper’s editor against a decision rendered 10 months earlier, which deemed illegal publication of the letter.
For sure, Meghan Markle must be delighted with this outcome, when we know that the media pressure and the tabloid attacks against her greatly motivated her departure from the British monarchy with Prince Harry. January 8 will mark the two years of “Megxit”. If the break with the Crown was done in pain, the Sussexes finally seem delighted with their new life in California with their two children, evidenced by their very first family portrait of four, unveiled last December as a card of wishes.