Megan wins Mail on Sunday's privacy battle decision.
The Duchess of Sussex won the final stage of her lawsuit against the Mail editors on Sunday over a letter to her father. A judge previously won Megan after excerpts from the letter appeared in the newspapers.
Megan said it was a win, "not just for me, but for anyone who's ever been afraid to stand up for what's right." In a statement following the verdict, the Duchess said: "In the nearly three years since this began, I have patiently faced calculated fraud, intimidation, and assault."
He added: "The court has held the defendants accountable, and I hope we all start doing the same. Because no matter how far it is from your personal life, it doesn't. Tomorrow could be you. "This dangerous practice doesn't even happen on a blue moon - it's daily failures that separate us, and we all deserve better."
The appeals court accepted Megan's argument that the August 2018 letter to Thomas Markle was "highly personal." The judges were told that 585 of the 1,250 words in the letters in the five articles had been republished. The Supreme Court found in February that the facts were so clear that a full trial was unnecessary.
And on Thursday, the appellate judge said it was difficult to see what evidence in the trial would change the situation.
They added, "The judge rightly ruled that while it may be proportionate to issue a small portion of the letter for this purpose, it is not necessary to issue half of the letter." At a three-day hearing in November, Associated attorneys said the paper argued that Megan's lawsuits against the publisher for privacy and copyright infringement should be heard in full.
During the trial, it was revealed that Megan had allowed her former communications secretary, Jason Knauf, to collaborate with the author of a book about her and Prince Harry, which she had previously refused.
They also submitted a statement from Mr. Knauf, from whom it was known that the Duchess had written the letter, knew very well that it could be out of date.