British Royal Family News find that for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, it certainly pays to defend their good name. There’s a new report that says the Duke of Sussex has accepted damages from Mail on Sunday and Mail Online’s publishers over baseless claims in an article that was published last year. Here’s what you need to know.
According to reports, Prince Harry’s legal team has accepted “significant damages” over an article alleging he had turned his back on the Royal Marines. Harry had served for a decade in the British army, and his lawyers said the articles caused considerable damage to his reputation and credibility with veterans.
British Royal Family News: Prince Harry Wins ‘Significant Damages’ In Legal Dispute With U.K. Tabloid
Jenny Afia, a lawyer for the The Duke of Sussex, said in a statement to open court on Monday that “the baseless, false and defamatory stories published constituted not only a personal attack on the Duke’s character, but also wrongly brought into question his service to this country.”
Prince Harry sued the outlets’ publisher, Associated Newspapers, over two articles published in October claiming that he had had “not been in touch” with the Royal Marines and that outraged leaders wanted to dump him as Captain General.
Jenny Afia told a remote hearing at London’s High Court on Monday, “All of these allegations are false, as the Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline have accepted, albeit after considerable damage was already done. The baseless, false and defamatory stories published in the Mail on Sunday and on the website MailOnline constituted not only a personal attack upon the Duke’s character but also wrongly brought into question his service to this country.”
As many royal fans know, Meghan Markle is also suing Associated Newspapers for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement over articles that published portions of a letter she wrote to her father, Thomas Markle, after her marriage to Harry in 2018.
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