It’s finally been revealed how much Meghan Markle will be getting after winning her court battle against the Mail on Sunday and its publisher Associated Newspapers Limited. And we have to admit, it’s not what we expected!
According to reports, the Duchess of Sussex will receive the nominal sum of 1 pound (the equivalent of $1.36) for the infringement of her privacy. However, according to court documents obtained by The Guardian and The Daily Mail, the publisher has also been ordered to pay a currently undisclosed sum for the infringement of copyright, as well as lawyer fees.
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If you'll recall, the mom-of-two took the newspaper and its publisher to court after it published a large majority of the handwritten private letter she sent to her 77-year-old estranged father, Thomas Markle, in February 2019. She wrote the letter in August 2018, three months after the royal wedding. Meghan won her case at the Court of Appeal in London on Thursday, December 2nd, after it was deemed that the contents of the letter were "personal, private and not matters of legitimate public interest" and therefore shouldn’t have been published.
This news comes just ten days after the Mail on Sunday decided it didn’t want to appeal the case any longer (reports are hinting that they would rather "cut their losses" and settle as opposed to going to trial and being forced to talk about their business practices) and published a statement which said that Meghan had won her lawsuit against them.
The statement appeared at the bottom of the front page of The Daily Mail on December 26th, and read: "The Duchess of Sussex wins her legal case for copyright infringement against Associated Newspapers for articles published in The Mail on Sunday and posted on Mail Online – SEE PAGE 3." It also mentioned that "financial remedies have been agreed" but didn’t provide any further details.
Meghan previously spoke out following the court's December 2nd verdict, saying: "This is a victory not just for me, but for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what's right. While this win is precedent setting, what matters most is that we are now collectively brave enough to reshape a tabloid industry that conditions people to be cruel, and profits from the lies and pain that they create."
