Meghan Markle's bombshell court papers
Meghan Markle has made incredibly sensational claims in bombshell court papers that she felt “unprotected” by the Royal Family’s “institution.”
The Sun has reported the Duchess is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (who own The Daily Mail).
She stated in numerous documents that she was unable to defend herself, which left her friends “rightly concerned for her welfare when pregnant”.
The 38-year-old went on to claim she felt “tremendous emotional distress” by media coverage, while her pals felt “silenced” by Kensington Palace and unable to defend her.
The legal documents also revealed that Meghan denied saying in a personal letter that she felt “victimised” by her father.
Meghan is suing ANL for publishing the personal letter to her dad, although the media group claims Mr Markle made it public after five of her pals gave an interview about it to People magazine.
The Duchess today named the pals, although they are only referred to as A, B, C, D and E in the papers, and they could now be called to testify at a trial.
People magazine previously described them as “Meghan’s inner circle – a longtime friend, a former co-star, a friend from LA, a one-time colleague and a close confidante’”.
However the royal has denied authorising her friends to speak out to defend her in the magazine article.
She said she learned an article about her was due to appear shortly before it was published, but did not know it would be in People magazine or its contents.
The possible trial would focus on whether Meghan had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of the letter to her dad.
In 2019, the dad told the Mail on Sunday the the five-page letter was a “dagger to the heart” which left him feeling “devastated”.
Meghan though, says she didn’t feel “victimised” by him, and dismissed claims she told him she had “only one father”.
She felt he “raised concern Mr Markle had consistently allowed himself to be manipulated by the tabloid media despite her trying to persuade him not to speak to them for his own good”.
The Duchess says she believes she is entitled to a “reasonable expectation of privacy” and thought its contents would never be published.
In the documents, Meghan also spoke on that she believed her Royal Wedding made Britain $1.8 billion in tourism cash.
The Duchess believes the money that was raised from the wedding at Windsor Castle in May 2018 “far outweighed” the contribution stumped up by the taxpayer towards security.
Her legal team have stated the royal wedding was “not, in fact, publicly funded, but rather personally financed by HRH The Prince of Wales”.
The royal wedding that finished with a huge firework display, cost an estimated $57 million.
The legal team’s documents said: “Any public costs incurred for the wedding were solely for security and crowd control to protect members of the public, as deemed necessary by Thames Valley Police and the Metropolitan Police.”
Meghan also said she believes she should be allowed to do land work like her cousin-in-laws, Beatrice and Eugenie, and also mentioned Prince Michael of Kent.
She named the trio while clarifying that members of the royal are, in fact, allowed to undertake paid work.wnd hit back after it was stated in legal papers that she is “a member of the royal family and does not undertake paid work”.
Meghan said it was wrong to say as “several member[s] of the Royal Family do ‘undertake paid work’ including, for example, Princess Beatrice of York, Princess Eugenie of York and Prince Michael of Kent”.
Princess Beatrice works in finance and consulting and Princess Eugenie is a director at a London art gallery.
Meghan is estimated to have made around $7.2 million from her acting career before marrying Prince Harry.
Since quitting royal life she has resumed her career and recently narrated the Disney film Elephant.
In the legal documents, Meghan added that she “was also the founder of the commercially successful lifestyle website The Tig”.