Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, on Thursday 11 February won her legal action in the United Kingdom against the publisher of the tabloid Mail on Sunday.

The latter was prosecuted for invasion of privacy after the publication of a letter from Meghan Markle to her father.

"The applicant could reasonably have expected that the contents of the letter remain private," said the judge, Mark Warby.

The latter had been called in January by Meghan Markle's lawyers to rule, without waiting for a trial which could have turned out to be rich in revelations about the life of the couple, installed in California since his removal from the British monarchy.

A hearing to determine the next steps in the proceedings has been set for March 2.

The 39-year-old ex-American actress criticized Associated Newspapers - which publishes the Mail Online site, the Daily Mail and its Sunday version Mail on Sunday - for invading her privacy by publishing extracts from a handwritten letter addressed in August 2018 to her father, Thomas Markle, 76, with whom she is cold.

The letter was written months after her wedding to Harry in May, which her father had not attended due to health concerns, after posing for paid paparazzi photos.

There she asks Thomas Markle to stop pouring out and lying in the media about their broken relationship.

Meghan Markle's lawyers denounced the "illegal publication of a private letter" and submitted a request for "summary judgment" to obtain success without going to trial.

At first, the tabloids greeted the arrival of the American actress as a breath of fresh air for the royal family.

They were quick to turn on her with vitriolic articles, criticizing her behavior, after a series of resignations from the staff of the royal household, and labeling her with the nickname "capricious duchess" (Duchess Difficult) .

With AFP

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