MEGHAN MARKLE S father has said he wanted to set the record straight over his relationship with his daughter and in official court documents he claims the Duchess never told him she loved him.
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The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a triple-barrelled invasion of her privacy, the High Court has been told.
Meghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.
She claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.
Her lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers defence instead of a trial.
Meghan s lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has no prospect of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.
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The lawyers of Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), which Meghan is suing after the Mail on Sunday published extracts of a letter she penned for her father, have made this claim in court documents submitted ahead of today s hearing. In these documents to the High Court, ANL s representatives said the Re-Amended Reply (RAR) previously submitted by Meghan s lawyers lend much greater support to D[efendant]’s case, since they admit a series of facts which strongly suggest that the Letter was created with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some fu