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Markle vs Markle: Meghan's father is set to be star witness against her in High Court showdown – Daily Mail, Dailymail.co.uk

Markle vs Markle: Meghan's father is set to be star witness against her in High Court showdown – Daily Mail, Dailymail.co.uk


Thomas Markle is prepared to give evidence against his own daughter in an extraordinary legal case, it was revealed yesterday.

The estranged father of theDuchess of Sussexis expected to be called as a key witness for the defense in a court case she has brought against a newspaper.

Mr Markle, (**********************************************************, has given lawyers previously unseen text messages sent in the build -up to Meghan’s wedding toPrince Harrythat reveal the breakdown of the relationship between father and daughter.

Some of the messages were detailed yesterday in defense papers filed at the High Court inLondon.

The documents say that after Mr Markle messaged his daughter saying he couldn’t come to her wedding because he had been rushed to hospital for emergency heart surgery and told not to fly on health grounds, he rec eived a text that appeared to be from Prince Harry.

The message admonished him, accused him of causing hurt to his daughter and did not ask about his health. It left Mr Markle ‘deeply hurt’.

In return, Mr Markle wrote: ‘I’ve done nothing to hurt you Meghan or anyone else … I’m sorry my heart attack is … any inconvenience for you. ‘

A smiling Meghan Markle was spotted Tuesday leaving the $ 17 million Vancouver Island home where she and Prince Harry stayed over the holidays with Archie. She has been staying in the mansion since last week, but Archie was nowhere to be seen Tuesday

The estranged father of the Duchess of Sussex is expected to be called as a key witness for the defense in a court case she has brought against a newspaper (pictured: Meghan Markle as a youngster, with her father Thomas Markle)

The Duchess of Sussex launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday last year after it published extracts of a letter she wrote to her father in August (*****************************************.

Meghan,

, has accused the newspaper – the sister paper of the Daily Mail – of breaching her privacy, her data protection rights and her copyright when it published extracts.

The MoS filed its defense to her case at the High Court in London yesterday. It denied her claims and argued there was a ‘huge and legitimate public interest’ in the Royal Family, including its ‘personal and family relationships’.

The defense papers also said:

Thomas Markle only released Meghan’s letter to the world to show it was not the ‘loving’ plea her friends had been making out;

  • He had kept her handwritten note private for months, and only revealed it to expose ‘false’ claims that the duchess had been reaching out to repair their relationship;
  • He only decided to release extracts of the letter to the Press after she had allowed her friends to talk about it first in the US magazine People;
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