Meghan Markle gets front-page apology from British tabloid
- The Mail on Sunday was ordered to print the apology after publishing parts of a personal letter she wrote to her father soon after marrying Prince Harry
- A judge previously ruled that the publisher must pay 90 per cent of the Duchess of Sussex’s US$1.88 million legal expenses
After her lawsuit win, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, got a front-page apology from the British newspaper that published parts of a personal letter she wrote to her father.
A high court ruled in favour of the former Meghan Markle earlier this year after she alleged copyright infringement by The Mail on Sunday for reprinting portions of the five-page handwritten letter she penned shortly after marrying Prince Harry in May 2018.
As part of the ruling, the tabloid was required to print a front-page apology to the former actress.
“The court found that Associated Newspapers infringed her copyright by publishing extracts of her handwritten letter to her father in The Mail on Sunday and in Mail Online,” the 96-word note, which was also published online, reads. “Financial remedies have been agreed.”
A judge previously ruled that the publisher must pay 90 per cent of Meghan’s US$1.88 million legal expenses.
The Mail’s publication of her letter to father Thomas violated her “reasonable expectation” of privacy, the judge wrote in dismissing the newspaper’s appeal.