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12 Nov, 9 tweets, 3 min read
📱In a series of newly-released messages, the Duchess of Sussex said that senior royals 'fundamentally don't understand' the situation with Thomas Markle

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📆At the time, in August 2018, Thomas Markle had been giving a series of media interviews about his daughter after he pulled out of attending her wedding, causing distress to the Duke and Duchess and concern in the Royal household
📱According to newly released text messages, written to Jason Knauf, her then-press secretary as she crafted a letter to her estranged father, the Duchess said she wanted to protect her husband from the "pain" the situation had caused Image
🗣️"Even after a week with his dad and endlessly explaining the situation, his family seem to forget the context and revert to 'can't she just go and see him and make this stop?'" the Duchess wrote on Aug 22, 2018
📨"They fundamentally don't understand, so at least by writing H [Harry] will be able to say to his family 'she wrote him a letter and he's still doing it'" she wrote

"By taking this form of action, I protect my husband from this constant berating" Image
📱The texts are shown to be sent from "Tilly", a pseudonym used by Mr Knauf for the Duchess
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📨The messages also include emails between the Duchess, Prince Harry and Mr Knauf in which they discuss a briefing meeting with the authors of Finding Freedom.

They show the Duchess's email signature: "Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any technological mishaps. I'm a Luddite" Image
🔴The Duchess has already won a High Court privacy battle with the Mail on Sunday after a judge found the publication of extracts of her letter to her father was unlawful.

The Mail on Sunday is seeking to overturn that summary decision, arguing that the matter should go to trial
After a three-day hearing this week, the Court of Appeal judges will return their findings within the next few weeks

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➡️The Kremlin claimed it had scrambled a fighter jet to intercept a British spy plane operating in the Black Sea region
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