Summary
There will be a policy of “zero engagement”, except when necessary through the couple’s lawyers with the following newspapers: The Mail, The Sun, The Mirror and The Express.
"This is due to them continously running stories that are “distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason”. The move is designed to signal to the wider public not to trust any of the reporting about the couple carried by British tabloids."
"It is also being done in order to protect their communications team from the side of the industry that readers never see. This policy is not about avoiding criticism. It’s not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. The media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can’t be based on a lie.”"
Now that Harry and Meghan are private citizens, they can work with the media outlets they want and don’t have to deal with the Rota.
Why?
- It could be part of the legal proceedings - court case this week)? To prove in court that they have warned the tabloids that they want nothing to do with them, so the papers can’t argue back that they are need to give H&M's charity endeavours ‘publicity’.
- The Sussexes never spoke to the tabloids anyway, so this is just a notice to the public that formalises it. It pretty much says to the Royal Rota papers, don’t call us, and lets the public know at the same time anything we hear from those tabloids is not official.
- Shows the four newspapers have no close legitimate sources on what the Sussexes are doing now
- "They are declaring that they will no longer be victims of the gutter press. They are also declaring that anything printed about them in these papers should be assumed to be false."
Apparently, text messages from H&M are circulating proving that Thomas Markle has lied. They tried to call and text but he ignored them. We might see that the Markles worked with the press to smear and make money off Meghan.