Meghan and Harry left royal frontline office earlier this year (File)
Britain:
The Duchess of Sussex is seeking a court order to prevent the names of five friends from being released in her high-profile dispute with Associated Newspapers, one of her headlines said Thursday.
Meghan Markle sues Associated, her newspaper Mail on Sunday and the website Mail Online, for violation of privacy, data protection rights and copyright for the publication of extracts from correspondence with her ex-father , Thomas, after his marriage in 2018 to Prince Harry.
The Mail argued that it was justified to publish the extracts, because it declared that the five friends had revealed the existence of the correspondence during a preliminary interview with the American magazine People.
The five were cited as sources for the article in legal documents submitted by Meghan to the court last month.
The newspaper group claims that this article gave it the right to publish new extracts.
But the Duchess says she was not involved and has now said that the Associated threatened to publish the names of the friends, Mail Online reported.
“These five women are not being tried, nor am I,” she said in a statement. “The publisher of Mail on Sunday is the one at trial.
“I respectfully request the court to treat this legal matter with the sensitivity it deserves and to prevent the publisher of the Mail on Sunday from breaking the precedent and abusing the legal process by identifying these anonymous individuals.”
Earlier this month, the Duchess claimed in leaked legal documents that she had been “unprotected” by the royal family from “false and damaging” press articles when she was pregnant.
These documents also claimed that his friends were “rightly concerned for his well-being”.
Meghan and Harry left royal frontline office earlier this year, an event dubbed “Megxit,” and waged an increasingly bitter battle with the media, particularly the British tabloid press.
The couple now live with their young son, Archie, in California, and have created a non-profit organization to promote education, mental health and well-being.
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