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British royal family news reveal that Meghan Markle Duchess of Sussex is using British newspaper Mail on Sunday claiming invasion of privacy. Maybe someone forget to tell her that she is a public figure? At any rate, journalist Tessa Clarke claims that Meghan’s lawsuit had less to do with privacy and more to do with her being irate that the newspaper did not buy into her PR strategies.
Royal Family News – Meghan Markle Is Suing A British Tabloid
In 2019 the Mail on Sunday published a letter Meghan wrote to her father, Thomas Markle, and in response Meghan sued Associated Newspapers Limited which owns the Mail on Sunday. According to The Guardian, “She is also claiming damages over allegations that the newspaper did not handle her personal information correctly under data protection legislation and breached copyright laws by publishing large chunks of the letter without her permission.”
But the outlet claims that the letter was just another one of Meghan’s PR strategies and fully meant to be made public.
Royal Family News – Is Meghan Markle Telling The Truth?
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Now Meghan has been accused of giving conflicting statements to lawyers, never a good thing. She initially said she was the “sole author” of the letter, but later Jason Knauf, who was Kensington Palace’s press secretary at the time, was identified as helping her. Oops.
Meghan reportedly talked about the missive with Prince Harry, her mother, the communications team at Kensington Palace, her lawyers and her friends—hardly “private!”
Royal Family News – Meghan Markle Trying To “Censor” The Media?
Meanwhile, Tessa Clarke wrote on the website Spiked, “Meghan and Prince Harry’s crusade against the press (between them they are suing Britain’s three biggest tabloid publishers) shows that the royals are attempting to tightly control their images. They are keen to use the tabloids to get us interested in their various preferred causes and ethical views. But they want to censor the very same press whenever it prints something that has not been heavily airbrushed or rose-tinted.”
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Clarke added, “Meghan and Harry are not arguing for privacy, but for the press to become an extension of their PR strategy. In a democracy, that will not do.”
Harry and Meghan may find it tough sledding trying to convince anyone of anything now that they have supposedly quit social media, comparing its users to drug addicts. They also want to drastically change how social media can be used, but as Tessa Clarke would say, “In a democracy, that will not do.”
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