Meghan claims the 'institution' of the monarchy failed to protect her from 'emotionally-distressing' articles about her.
The Duchess of Sussex felt"unprotected" by the Royal Family while she was pregnant, new court documents reveal.
Meghan, 38, claims the"institution" of the monarchy failed to protect her after she became"the subject of a large number of false and damaging articles" in the press while she was pregnant with her son, which caused her"tremendous emotional distress and damage to her mental health". The claims are made in new papers lodged by the duchess's legal team in her ongoing case against the Mail on Sunday and its owners Associated Newspaper Limited .
, which also owns MailOnline and the Daily Mail, over a Mail on Sunday article that reproduced sections of a handwritten note she sent to her estranged father Thomas Markle, 75, in August 2018.Harry and Meghan are pictured in London before they quit as senior royals earlier this year The document claims Meghan felt"prohibited" from defending herself against"falsehoods" about her published by the Mail on Sunday before she andIt adds:"As her friends had never seen her in this state before, they were rightly concerned for her welfare, specifically as she was pregnant, unprotected by the institution, and prohibited from defending herself."
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