Thread by @BInvestigates

EXCLUSIVE: Byline Investigates can reveal the #DuchessofSussex has filed her response to the #MailonSunday’s Defence in her legal action over its publication of a private letter she sent her father Thomas Markle before her wedding to #PrinceHarry 1/12

BREAKING: The 30-plus page, approx 9,000-word,document will take a wrecking ball to the newspaper’s publishers own 44-page case which seeks to justify allegations of misuse of #duchessmeghan's private information,breach of Data Protection Rights and infringement of copyright 2/12

The Duchess's filing will accuse Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL) of trying to “attack and intimidate” her in “the Defence and in print”, adding to distress of it publishing a “deeply private communication” that ANL itself called “a moving letter to her estranged father” 3/12

ANL to be accused of publishing the letter for “self-serving commercial interest” not to “set record straight” on behalf of Thomas Markle. Mr Markle described as a “vulnerable” man “harassed and humiliated” by ANL’s media outlets the #MoS @DailyMailUK
and @MailOnline 4/12

@DailyMailUK @MailOnline BREAKING: Mr Markle himself will describe one of its journalists as writing an @MailOnline
interview with him containing “lies and bullshit”. ANL will further be accused of being the cause of the “dispute” between Mr Markle and his daughter #sussexes 5/12

@DailyMailUK @MailOnline BREAKING: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are understood to have included details of a series of text messages with Thomas Markle that counter ANL's claims they did not enquire about his health and wellbeing following a heart attack 6/12

@DailyMailUK @MailOnline BREAKING: Among the text messages are some written from Prince Harry in which he is said to urge Mr Markle to beware speaking to the Press as it would “backfire”, going on to offer him help and reassure him the couple were not angry with him 7/12

#harrymeghan #HarryandMeghan

@DailyMailUK @MailOnline BREAKING: Other messages show the Duchess was worried about Mr Markle’s health, pleaded with him to contact her, asked where he was in hospital, and offering him a security detail, which he declined 8/12

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@DailyMailUK @MailOnline BREAKING: Meghan Markle will expressly deny involvement in interviews given by five of her friends to US magazine People, in which a passing reference was made to the (then five-month old) letter, which ANL then claimed as justification for its publication 9/12

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@DailyMailUK @MailOnline BREAKING: The Duchess will say she only later found out her friends had acted of their own accord as they were “extremely concerned at the aggressive attacks” as the Duchess was “vulnerable as well as heavily pregnant” with son Archie at the time 10/12

#harrymeghan

@DailyMailUK @MailOnline The Duchess of Sussex also denies the Mail on Sunday’s claims she got a friend to intervene on her behalf over a separate article. More will follow today here on this breaking legal story 11/12

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@DailyMailUK @MailOnline The legal revelations follow the Royal couple’s letter today telling the @MailOnline and its sister titles, @TheSun @DailyMirror and @Daily_Express , they would never again deal with them saying stories have been “distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason” 12/12

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