In the messages released in the lawsuit of Meghan and Harry against Associated Newspapers, the publisher of tabloids MailOnline and The Mail on Sunday, the Duchess writes about her plans to write a letter to her father. The reason for the letter was that Thomas, with whom she had hardly any contact, always sought the media in the run-up to her marriage to Harry to give interviews about his daughter.
That this situation was also a thorn in the side of the British royal family, is apparent from the messages Meghan sent to Knauf at the time. “The reason for doing this is because I see how much it hurts H,” Meghan wrote, referring to H as her fiancé Harry. “Even after a week with his dad and endlessly explaining the situation, his family doesn’t seem to understand and they keep asking ‘if I can’t just go to him and stop it’. They just don’t understand, so writing the letter allows H to say to his family ‘she has written and he is still doing it.’ I hope this will protect H from the continuous name-calling, and while it’s unlikely my father may stop for a while.”
The messages also show that Meghan took into account that the letter would be leaked. “Obviously all I’ve prepared with the knowledge is that it can be leaked, so I’ve been careful in my choice of words.”
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