Judge says new royal book can be used in Meghan privacy case

publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper can use contents of a recent behind- scenes book about Duke and Duchess of Sussex in its legal defense for an invasion of privacy lawsuit brought by duchess, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Judge Francesca Kaye gave Associated Newspapers Ltd. permission to amend its defense to d “furr particulars” relating to book published last month, “Finding Freedom.”

former Meghan Markle, 39, is suing publisher over five February 2019 articles in Mail on Sunday and on MailOnline website that published portions of a handwritten letter she wrote to her estranged far, Thomas Markle, after her marri to Harry in 2018.

Associated Newspapers is contesting claim. Its lawyers argue that Meghan me personal information public by cooperating with authors of book “in order to set out her own version of events in a way that is favorable to her.”

Antony White, a lawyer for Associated Newspapers, said in written court submissions that book appeared to have been written with Meghan and Harry’s “extensive cooperation.”

Meghan’s lawyers deny that she collaborated with book’s authors, Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie.

American actress Meghan Markle, star of TV legal drama “Suits,” married Harry, one of grandsons of Queen Elizabeth II, in a lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle in May 2018. ir son, Archie, was born following year.

Early this year, couple anunced y were quitting royal duties and moving to rth America, citing what y said was unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of British media. y recently bought a house in Santa Barbara, California.

A full hearing in her lawsuit against Associated Newspapers is due to start in January.

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