This is not the first time that Meghan Markle has not told the whole truth and is publicly backtracking. This time, the case concerns Finding Freedom (Harry and Meghan, free in the French version), their unofficial biography released in the summer of 2020, several months after their shattering departure from the royal family.
Meghan Markle admitted to the British courts of having provided information to the authors of Finding Freedom, contrary to what she had previously indicated in the lawsuit against a British tabloid.
The 40-year-old American actress won her privacy breach lawsuit in February against the Mail on Sunday. She accuses him of publishing a letter written in 2018, in which she asked her father Thomas Markle, 77, to stop pouring out and lying in the media about their broken relationship. The tabloid with large circulation is now contesting this decision, during an appeal examined until Thursday in London. The Duchess of Sussex’s accusations there appeared to have been weakened by testimony Wednesday from Jason Knauf, the couple’s former communications secretary now in California.
Bringing water to the mill Mail on Sunday who wants to demonstrate that Meghan Markle regularly sought to influence public opinion, the latter claimed to have provided on behalf of the couple private information to the authors of the unofficial biography of the royal couple, Finding Freedom. According to him, the book project being according to him “routinely discussed” and “directly with the Duchess, in person and by email“.
In written testimony provided to the court, Meghan Markle admitted to having been involved in the writing of the book – which she and her husband had always denied until then – and apologized for having misled the court by not having specified it at first instance. “I acknowledge that Mr. Knauf provided information to the authors and that he did so with my knowledge“, she explains, adding however that”the extent of the information he shared (was) unknown to him“.”I apologize to the court for not remembering these exchanges at the time“, continues the Duchess.
The Duchess of Sussex – out last night in a daring gown in New York City – however argued that the information shared with the perpetrators was “far from very detailed personal informations “that the Mail on Sunday had published.
Prince Harry, 37, sixth in the order of succession to the British crown, has repeatedly denounced media pressure on his couple and made it the main reason for his withdrawal from the royal family, effective since April 2020. The British tabloids, often mercilessly against the Duchess, have made a big splash with their backpedaling. The Sun devoted its front page Thursday to a cartoon of Meghan, nicknamed “Madam Stunned“, in reference to the series of children’s books Sir, madam.