The Associated Newspapers plans to appeal against a judge’s ruling that it invaded the privacy of the Duchess of Sussex by publishing parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father Thomas Markle after her 2018 marriage to Prince Harry, according to the Associated Press.
Meghan Markle sued the publisher for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement over 2019 articles in the Mail on Sunday, which reproduced portions of her letter to Thomas.
Judge Mark Warby ruled that she “had a reasonable expectation that the contents of the letter would remain private” and concluded the paper’s publication of large chunks of it was “manifestly excessive and hence unlawful.”