A British court has dismissed an appeal by the Mail on Sunday newspaper against a ruling that it had breached Meghan Markle's privacy.
The full judgement is available online.
In 2019, the Duchess of Sussex sued Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), the publisher of MailOnline, over five articles that reproduced parts of her handwritten letter to her father Thomas Markle in August 2018.
Meghan accused the publisher of breach of copyright, infringement of her privacy and breaches of the Data Protection Act.
In February 2021, the judge ruled that the publication of the letter was "manifestly excessive and hence unlawful". Later, Meghan was granted a summary judgement in relation to her privacy claim, which meant that there was no need to go to trial for that part of the case.
The publisher, however, argued the case should go to trial after the former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Jason Knauf, testified that Meghan wrote the letter with the awareness that it could be leaked to the media. Meghan's lawyers argued that the letter was personal and "self-evidently was intended to be kept private".
In her written evidence to the Court of Appeal, the Duchess denied allegations that she considered it likely that her father would leak the letter, but did not rule out the possibility.
"The main purpose of the letter was to encourage my father to stop talking to the press. To be clear, I did not want any of it to be published, and wanted to ensure that the risk of it being manipulated or misleadingly edited was minimised, were it to be exploited," Meghan reportedly wrote.