Duchess Meghan had to admit that she leaked private information to the authors of "Finding Freedom".
Duchess Meghan (39) has apparently admitted that she leaked private information to the authors of "Finding Freedom", the biography about her and her husband Prince Harry (36). This emerges from court documents that are available to the "Daily Mail", among others. The documents are part of the process the Duchess is conducting against the British newspaper "Mail on Sunday" and its publisher Associated Newspapers.
Accordingly, the 39-year-old was concerned that the portrayal of her father Thomas Markle (76) that the Duchess had broken off all contact with him had found its way into the book. Therefore she allowed a third person, who had already been contacted by the authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, to tell her side of the story in order to "prevent any further misrepresentation".
The Duchess insists, however, that she has never been in direct contact with the authors and that she does not know whether the royal press office has provided information on her behalf. Nevertheless, this is a piquant detail: So far, the Duchess's lawyers had denied any cooperation.
Court admits biography
The occasion for the trial of the "Mail on Sunday" is the publication of a handwritten letter from Duchess Meghan to her father Thomas from 2018, which was printed from the sheet. The Duchess sees this as an abuse of private information and violates her personal and data protection rights.
The other side, however, wants to use "Finding Freedom" to show that the Duchess worked with the authors of the book published on August 11 to present her version of certain events – the defense of her personal rights is thus questioned. At the end of September, the court initially followed this line of argument and approved the biography for the publisher's defense.
The trial is scheduled for January 2021 and should last ten days. Meghan should then also meet her father in court.