What Meghan Markle’s court win means for Royal Family - and the media

High Court judge rules that newspaper invaded Duchess of Sussex’s privacy by publishing personal letter to her estranged father

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The Duchess of Sussex has welcomed her “comprehensive win” in a High Court privacy case against The Mail on Sunday that pundits say has major implications for the Royal Family.

In a statement following the ruling yesterday, Meghan Markle said that the paper’s publisher Associated Newspapers had to be held accountable for its “illegal and dehumanising practices” in publishing extracts of a letter that she had written to her estranged father, Thomas Markle.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.