Meghan launched legal action after a tabloid printed a letter it had been shown by Thomas Markle.
The middle-market weekly newspaper has now issued its defence, leading to the possibility that Meghan and her father could be called to testify against each other. Her father, an award-winning former lighting director now living in Mexico, did not attend the wedding after staging paparazzi photographs and being hospitalised with chest pains in the build-up.The letter was written in August 2018 and published in February 2019 shortly after the US magazine People ran a story citing Meghan’s friends talking about the letter, which shed light on her troubled relationship with her estranged father.
Her lawyers said at the time that the publication was “part of a campaign by this media group to publish false and deliberately derogatory stories about her, as well as her husband.”Harry said in an accompanying statement: “The contents of a private letter were published unlawfully in an intentionally destructive manner to manipulate you, the reader, and further the divisive agenda of the media group in question.
The paper’s sister publication the Daily Mail said on its front page Wednesday that Markle would be prepared to give evidence against his daughter.