The publisher of the Mail on Sunday has won the first High Court battle against Meghan Markle, over her claim it published a "private and confidential" letter to her estranged dad.
The Duchess of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers over five articles, two in the Mail on Sunday and three on MailOnline, which were published in February 2019 and reproduced parts of a handwritten letter she sent to Thomas Markle, 75, in August 2018.
A preliminary hearing, in which lawyers for the publisher asked for parts of the duchess's case to be struck out, was held last week, with the judge sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and lawyers and reporters attending remotely.
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