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Megan feared that Thomas Markley had “abandoned” him and failed to contact him, even though he had called, texted and written to him “trying to force him to stop dealing with the media,” the court said by his lawyers. The document states that he pointed to someone he knew who had been approached by freedom-seeking authors Omid Scoby and Carolyn Durand that “the real position” could be “communicated with teachers to prevent further misrepresentation”.
It states that Duchess of Sussex did not know how “an information” about her relationship with her father was shared with the authors.
Megan, 39, has sued the Associated Press (ANL), publisher of the Mail on Sunday, for publishing parts of a handwritten letter sent to Mr Markle, 76, in August 2018.
He is seeking compensation for alleged misuse of private information, breach of data protection law and copyright infringement in five articles published in February 2019.
The autobiography of Megan and Harry, published in August – written in defense of the Duchess’s High Court claim, was released in September by ANL.
In his revised response to ANL’s defense, Megan’s legal team argues that he did not collaborate with the authors of the Hario book, did not meet with the authors, and was not interviewed either formally or informally.
Megan wrote a letter to her father urging him to stop dealing with the media when she tried to call him and text him, saying that he had left her in the media and had not even tried to contact him (which was wrong) and would come back again;
“Accordingly, he pointed out to a person he already knew that he could contact the authors to prevent further misrepresentation of the actual position above (that person and many others already known to the claimant).
“She does not know to what extent or in what way this one piece of information related to her communication with her father was shared with the teacher.”
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The document also denied that Meghan “knowingly caused or allowed information about her personal relationship and / or communications with her father, including the existence of the letter and the interpretation of its contents to enter the public domain”.
In order to “avoid suspicion”, Megan did not give the authors a copy of the letter “directly or indirectly” written to her father, its contents, or a description of its contents and her father’s response.
The document continues: “As far as the claimant is aware, the authors did not have a copy of the letter or his father’s reply.
“If someone gave them a copy, it happened without his consent or knowledge and against his will.
The publisher argued that the Duchess provided the authors with information about the letter to Mr. Markle, “in order to set her own version of the events in her favor”.
But Megan’s lawyers rejected the claim that Duke and the Duchess “collaborated” with the teachers on “conspiracy theory.”
They argued that any reference to the letter in the book was “taken from the letter raised from the defendant’s own articles.”
