Printing Meghan’s letter to father was ‘his reply’ to People article, court told

Mail on Sunday publisher says 2019 article had given duchess's letter to Thomas Markle a wholly misleading gloss'

The Duchess of Sussex was arguably" behind a nasty and untrue" article about her father published in People magazine in the US, which he had the right to publicly address, a court in London has heard.

On the closing day of a three-day appeal hearing brought by the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, lawyers representing Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) argued that Meghan had written a five-page letter to her father, Thomas Markle, with potential public consumption in mind" and there was a public interest in correcting assertions made in the 2019 article.