Another day, another royal charge.
Meghan Markle said Thursday that a letter she wrote to her father in 2018, which was later leaked to the British press, was Queen Elizabeth II’s idea. Newsweek reports about it.
Markle, who made the explosive claim in the fifth episode of the Netflix documentary Harry and Meghan, revealed that she went to the late monarch for advice when her father Thomas began going public. say derogatory words about her wedding.
The Duchess of Sussex said it was “very embarrassing for the family” and “a problem”. had to be solved… they wanted me to stop it.”
“And of course I turned to His Majesty and said, ‘This is what is happening. What do you want me to do? “I want whatever advice you give,” said the 41-year-old. “But ultimately it was suggested by the Queen and the Prince of Wales [now King Charles] I will write to my father.”
Markle spoke on the series about how she “took great pains to get this letter to my dad very carefully.”
In October 2018, Britain’s Mail on Sunday published excerpts from a letter sent by the elder Markle, which contained what he called a “dagger to the heart.”
Markle recalls that the reaction to the leak was “horrific”.
Both the Duke and Duchess decided to sue the paper for printing the private message.
“We talked with the institution’s lawyer [monarchy] and senior members of the palace,” Markle recalled. “And in those meetings, I reminded them that I wrote that letter under the guidance of senior members of the family.”
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Markle and her husband went ahead on their own after the palace claimed time had stopped. Markle describes the moment as a “tipping point” for British media. “Everything changed after that,” he told Netflix.
The courts ruled in Markle’s favor, saying the former royal “had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of the letter and that the content was private, private and not of legitimate public interest.”
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