Frogmore Royal

Meghan’s reputation is in the gutter, and it’s not the Daily Mail’s fault.  If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s Instagram and Omid Scobie’s.  I am confused why everyone is rooting for the Daily Mail to stop posting untrue stories about Meghan, this lawsuit doesn’t come close to encompassing those issues.  Instead, this lawsuit is about when/if a paper may publish a private letter, and how that implicates a royal’s privacy. After more research into UK laws, I think Meghan *might* win her copyright infringement claim against the Daily Mail.  Except, and this is where it gets interesting, it was her friends that brought up the letter in the first place.  Let’s go back to the beginning of the lawsuit, in February 2019 Meghan sued the Daily Mail (and the Mail on Sunday and the parent corporation, the Associated Newspapers, but to save myself some typing I will continue to refer to it as the Daily Mail.)  She sued because they had published excerpts of a handwritten ...

Meghan Markle is not a lawyer.  I want to remind everyone that on Suits, Meghan didn’t even play a lawyer on TV.  She was a paralegal.  But I am personally surprised at how litigious she is, since she played a legal professional on TV, she should be able to spot a frivolous lawsuit from a mile away.  But she and Harry have proven that they are immune to seeing their own hypocrisy.   If you have not been following the Duchess of Sussex’s lawsuit, I’ll give you a brief summary.  Around the time of her wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan wrote her Father, Thomas Markle, a personal letter.  This same letter was later published by the Daily Mail, a tabloid in the UK.  Meghan then sued the Daily Mail alleging: breach of copyright, breach of data regulation, and a breach of her privacy.  I will be analyzing her arguments regarding her privacy claim at length in this blog post.   First, I’ll deal with the copyright claim.  In o...