British Royal Family News suggests that Meghan Markle desperately wants to protect her friends. That, or she desperately wants to protect herself from embarrassment.
In her ongoing battle with the British tabloid the Mail on Sunday, the Duchess of Sussex wants to protect the five friends who spoke on her behalf to People Magazine after the Mail on Sunday published a private letter that Meghan sent to her father, Thomas Markle, Sr. Here’s what you need to know.
Meghan wants to keep the identities of her friends anonymous, but a lawyer for the British tabloid wants to put all five of them in the spotlight. However, there was only one friend who spoke specifically about the letter in the People Magazine interview. With that said, all of the women are still key witnesses in this case.
British Royal Family News: Meghan Markle Desperate To Protect Friends
According to Fox News, the Mail on Sunday’s lawyer, Anthony White, believes that granting the five friends anonymity would undermine the “vitally important open justice principle.”
“The friends are important potential witnesses on a key issue,” White said in a written argument. He said removing their names “would be a heavy curtailment of the media’s and the defendant’s entitlement to report this case and the public’s right to know about it.”
In a witness statement, the Duchess of Sussex said that “each of these women is a private citizen, young mother, and each has a basic right to privacy.”
“These five women are not on trial, and nor am I,” she wrote. “The publisher of the Mail on Sunday is the one on trial. It is this publisher that acted unlawfully and is attempting to evade accountability; to create a circus and distract from the point of this case — that the Mail on Sunday unlawfully published my private letter.”
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