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Prince Harry compares 'malicious' media coverage of Duchess Meghan to late Princess Diana

Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan and their baby son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, during their royal tour of South Africa on Sept. 25.
Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan and their baby son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, during their royal tour of South Africa on Sept. 25. (Photo: Pool, Getty Images)

Prince Harry is denouncing the British media's "malicious" and "relentless" coverage of his wife, Duchess Meghan, in an emotional open letter.

"Unfortunately, my spouse has end up one of the modern victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns towards individuals without a notion to the results – a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, during her pregnancy and even as raising our new child son," he wrote in a announcement posted Tuesday on their legit internet site.

The royal, 35, endured: "I had been a silent witness to her non-public struggling for too long. To stand returned and do not anything could be contrary to the entirety we accept as true with in."

Prince Harry as compared the media treatment of Duchess Meghan to that of his overdue mother, Princess Diana, who died in a automobile crash in Paris in 1997 whilst evading paparazzi.

"My inner most worry is history repeating itself," he wrote. "I’ve visible what occurs while someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or visible as a real person. I lost my mother and now I watch my spouse falling sufferer to the identical powerful forces."

Prince Harry says the media has "vilified (Meghan) nearly day by day for the beyond nine months," and introduced that he and the duchess are taking prison action in opposition to Associated Newspapers, the figure enterprise of The Mail on Sunday.

"The contents of a non-public letter have been posted unlawfully in an deliberately adverse way to govern … the reader, and in addition the divisive time table of the media group in question," he wrote. "They purposely misled you by using strategically omitting select paragraphs, unique sentences, and even singular words to masks the lies they had perpetuated for over a year."

The Duke of Sussex brought, "Put virtually, it's far bullying."

The royals are suing for the misuse of private records, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018, in keeping with the statement. Any damages rewarded "can be donated to an anti-bullying charity," they added.

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The Mail on Sunday newspaper stated in a declaration to the Associated Press Tuesday night time that it will defend itself "vigorously" towards the lawsuit and “stands by using the story” in question, which worries publication of a letter Meghan had written to her estranged father.

“Specifically, we categorically deny that the duchess’s letter changed into edited in any manner that modified its which means,” the tabloid said in a assertion.

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