‘Berating from royals': Meghan Markle says she wrote letter to father to save Harry

Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle penned infamous letter to her far requesting him to ‘stop talking to British press’ in order to protect her husband, Prince Harry, from “constant berating” by Royal family ahead of ir marri in 2018, according to a trove of text messs released by London’s Court of Appeal, accessed by UK’s Daily Beast.  Meghan talked about Harry’s strained relationship with Prince Charles in letter which was published by Mail on Sunday.

Duchess of Sussex later also sued Associated Newspapers Ltd. (ANL) alleging that media hampered her privacy and breached copyright. But ANL argued that Meghan had intended letter to be leaked as case was heard by London’s court. After appeal concluded Thursday this week, court released texts in redacted form. 

Meghan told ex-aide Jason Knauf to 'make this stop' 

As her relations with her far fell apart, Meghan, who wrote to her dad told an ex-aide Jason Knauf that Royals were t aware as to why she refused to visit her dad in Mexico. With family tussle intensifying, and Duchess of Sussex’s dad approaching media, Meghan told her aide to “make this stop” adding that situation causes “pain" to Prince Harry.

40-year-old n, agitated at Associated Newspapers Limited for leak filed a privacy case, but paper filed an appeal to overturn ruling at Court of Appeal heard this week. In w accessed letter briefly, Meghan allegedly told her former communications chief that her husband Harry was being pressured by his far and refore she decided to pen down letter to Thomas Markle, her dad. 

“ catalyst for my doing this is seeing how much pain this is causing H. Even after a week with his dad and endlessly explaining situation, his family seem to forget context—and revert to ‘can’t she just go and see him and make this stop?” Duchess of Sussex said in texts to her ex-aide Knauf, content for which was cited by Daily Beast. 

“y fundamentally don’t understand so at least by writing H will be able to say to his family… ‘She wrote him a letter and he is still doing it.’ By taking this form of action I protect my husband from this constant berating, and while unlikely perhaps it will give my far a moment to pause” texts furr read. 

While Meghan won privacy case against ANL with a “summary judgment” and judge decided that re might be chance for paper to win case, ANL submitted an appeal to court to contest judgment. new text, email, and witness statements are evidence submitted by Knauf that undermines Meghan’s narrative. He had also reportedly reached out to ANL, saying that he “regretted” t handing evidence earlier. 

(IM: AP)