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Meghan Markle taking Mail On Sunday to Court *MNHQ tweaked title for accuracy*

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:20

And about time, too. They never stop castigating her.

Prince Harry has said that he's worried that she'll end up being the same kind of victim that his mother was with regard to the Press.

I hope she wins her case.

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TooManyPaws · 01/10/2019 23:22

Sunday Mail or Mail on Sunday? Sunday Mail is a Scottish newspaper and the Mail on Sunday is the sister paper to the Daily Heil.

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:23

Oh. I mean the Mail on Sunday, I suppose.

I live in Scotland though.

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:26

And the lady across the road from me always brings me her Sunday Mail each week.

DH says "Not that fucking newspaper again."

I just throw it in the bin.

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:27

Jeez. Who's voting that I am being unreasonable?

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Osirus · 01/10/2019 23:32

I 100% agree with you. The press, and the people who buy to read such damaging articles of personal attacks should be ashamed.

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:33

Daily Heil

Grin
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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:35

It's interesting that the people who have voted YABU have not commented as to why...

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Ponoka7 · 01/10/2019 23:36

I've agreed with you.

But why have you called her Meghan Markle?

Kate is never called Kate Middleton.

This feeds into that Meghan isn't royalty. Why not call her by her title?

Venger · 01/10/2019 23:38

Good for her, she's been treated appallingly by the press and online to the point that people genuinely believed she was faking her pregnancy in order to tighten her hold over Harry/the Royal Family Hmm

I hope she wins and that the charity payout is massive.

Fuck the Mail.

angell84 · 01/10/2019 23:38

She is dead right. They are going too far. And all because Piers Morgan hates Meghan because she didn't want to be friends with him.

She is suing then because they published one of her private letters. She will probably win that.

Harry's statement may get them to back off, he said " I lost my mother to this, and now it is happening again to my wife"

It is sad

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:40

Why not call her by her title?

You are quite right, Ponoka7. I should have referred to her as the Duchess of Sussex.

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angell84 · 01/10/2019 23:41

He has just said

"I lost my mother and now I watch ny wife falling victim to the same powerful forces".

It is sad

Penelopeschat · 01/10/2019 23:41

Completely agree with you. It’s appalling how they not only do what they do but people buy those papers and believe the nonesense they print. I hope she wins!

familycourtq · 01/10/2019 23:41

I’d feel happier if people stopped buying shitrag papers full of lies and hate like the Fail.

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:41

I did read some of the online abuse she received and it was horrific. Saying she had faked her pregnancy to get attention. Awful stuff.

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Tonnerre · 01/10/2019 23:42

Kate is never called Kate Middleton.

Where have you been? She's constantly called Kate Middleton. Just as the papers kept referring to Lady Di till she died and beyond.

OP, YANBU. I hope she wins and they are ordered to pay a fortune, and that she pays it over to whichever charity will annoy Mail readers most.

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:44

So one in three voters on here think I am being unreasonable to want her to win this case.

Where are you all? You haven't commented.

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Chilledout11 · 01/10/2019 23:44

I hope that shitty newspaper backs off and the charity does very well. Sorry for the bad language but it's really awful what they do to people.

WonderWomansSpin · 01/10/2019 23:45

Maybe they commented on the other identical thread about this instead.

angell84 · 01/10/2019 23:45

Do you remember the first story about her on the Daily mail online

"Harry's girl is almost straight out of Compton"

And it talked about gangs in L.A

They are awful to her

1Morewineplease · 01/10/2019 23:45

If you want to be a frontline royal then you need to accept the fallout, criticisms etc...
If they want attention then they must accept that there are folk who really wish that they would keep out of the limelight.
There are many who view royal privilege as condescension.

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TheMustressMhor · 01/10/2019 23:48

There are many who view royal privilege as condescension

That is true. However it does not excuse personal attacks about individuals which are intended to cause extreme hurt.

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angell84 · 01/10/2019 23:50

I do think that they were getting out of hand with Meghan.

I wonder will she win: she is challenging the story where they printed her private letter.

Apparantly if you send a letter, the sender still owns the copywright

Bouledeneige · 01/10/2019 23:52

But what is she taking them to court for? Can you explain. Being nasty isn't a crime. Is it libel? And for what allegation?

kateandme · 01/10/2019 23:53

i read his statement.it was very very powerful and so sad.but brilliant.
good for him.like he said they have treid to sit back and take it but he can no longer sit back and watch what its doing to his wife.

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