The Duchess of Sussex has made it clear that this is not the end of her fight against tabloid culture
After years of being accused of not playing the media game – cheating royal correspondents by not telling them when she went into labour, for example, and then having the temerity to avoid photographers when she came out – it was unsurprising, perhaps, that Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, victorious in the latest battle of her fight with the Mail on Sunday, denounced it as a game played with “no rules”.
Today, three court of appeal judges applied some when they ruled that letters written to family members counted as “personal, private and not matters of legitimate public interest”. What’s more, and in a point that few media lawyers have argued with, the copyright of such letters always belongs to the author.
Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist
