Following the judgement, the Duchess released a statement saying she is “reshaping” the tabloid media industry.
In the victory statement, she used the final line to say that tabloid practices are a “daily fail that divide us”, in an apparent nod to the nickname used by Daily Mail critics for the newspaper.
A spokesman for ANL said it was considering appealing to the Supreme Court, believing that the case merits a trial.
Read the full statements issued by the Duchess of Sussex and the publisher.
‘Victory’ is not vindication
This case had started out in October 2019 as Meghan versus the whole of the press, which she claimed had a vendetta against her.
Over the course of the next 25 months, the scope had become tethered to one central issue: was it proportionate for the Mail on Sunday to have published the contents of a five-page letter from the Duchess to her father?
In the end it did not matter that Meghan had admitted to Jason Knauf, her former communications chief, that she had “obviously” written the letter “with the understanding that it could be leaked” – or that she had referred to Thomas Markle as “Daddy” to “pull at the heartstrings” should it be made public.
Camilla Tominey analyses how, although this was a victory for Meghan and the Royal family, it was not a vindication of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s repeated attacks on the entire press.
Amol Rajan apologises
Meanwhile, BBC journalist Amol Rajan has apologised for “rude and immature” comments about the monarchy, after his impartiality was called into question following his controversial documentary about the Royal family.
The corporation’s media editor, who presented a two-part programme about the “Princes and the Press” for the BBC despite his vocal republican views, said he “deeply regrets” his “foolish commentary” after he called the monarchy “absurd” and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s public role a “total fraud”. Read on for details.
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Around the world: Russia to propose ‘security pact’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today that Moscow would soon put forward proposals for a new European security pact which he said he hoped would stop Nato from expanding further eastwards. Lavrov was speaking at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Stockholm ahead of talks with his US counterpart Antony Blinken expected to focus on tensions around Ukraine. Blinken, Nato and Ukrainian officials have repeatedly expressed fears that Russia will soon launch a new attack on Ukraine, an idea Moscow has rejected as fearmongering. Read why Mr Lavrov said Europe was returning to “the nightmare of military confrontation”.
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