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  • Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has won her privacy case against the British tabloid, which printed extracts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father.

  • Ah London High Court judge issued a summary judgment in her favor on Thursday.

  • Meghan, who is the wife of Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince Harry, had sued publisher Associated Newspapers after the mail on Sunday printed parts of the hand written letter she sent to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.

  • Meghan wrote the five page letter after their relationship collapsed in the run up to her wedding in May 2018, which her father missed due to ill health and after he admitted to posing for paparazzi pictures in two days of hearings.

  • Her lawyers say printing the personal and sensitive letter was a triple barrelled assault on her private life, her family life and her correspondence and plainly breached her privacy.

  • The paper argued the duchess always intended the letter's contents to become public and it formed a part of a media strategy, pointing out she had admitted in court papers discussing it with her Communications Secretary Judge Mark Warby ruled the articles did breached her privacy.

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has won her privacy case against the British tabloid, which printed extracts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father.

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