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   From: markle-fake-news@cnn.com   
      
   Meghan Markle may soon be hit with another bombshell amid Megxit   
   — her estranged dad will likely be a key witness against her in   
   an upcoming court case, legal papers reveal.   
      
   The Duchess of Sussex, 38, is suing the Mail on Sunday newspaper   
   in the UK for printing a letter she wrote to her father, Thomas   
   Markle, for not attending her May 2018 royal wedding to Prince   
   Harry.   
      
   Her 75-year-old father now plans to be the key witness   
   testifying on behalf of the paper, according to new documents   
   filed in London’s High Court.   
      
   Potentially adding to the PR nightmare he has already caused his   
   daughter, Thomas Markle will help prove that the Duchess was   
   behind a smear campaign against him in the run-up to her   
   wedding, the documents claim.   
      
   Her father has already provided the paper’s lawyers with a   
   series of text messages he says were exchanged in early 2018 as   
   rumors swirled over whether he would be present for his   
   daughter’s big day.   
      
   They include one that appears to be an angry exchange with   
   Prince Harry when Markle claimed he was rushed to a hospital for   
   emergency heart surgery and could not fly to the UK on health   
   grounds, the Daily Mail said, citing the court filings.   
      
   “I’ve done nothing to hurt you Meghan or anyone else,” the dad   
   wrote, according to the report. “I’m sorry my heart attack is …   
   any inconvenience for you.”   
      
   The letter was the only communication the Duchess has had with   
   her dad since he failed to show at her wedding, the Mail claimed.   
      
   The Duchess accuses the newspaper of copyright infringement,   
   misuse of private information and violating the UK’s data   
   protection law by publishing her letter.   
      
   The paper insists in court filings, however, that her father   
   “had a weighty right to tell his version of what had happened   
   between himself and his daughter, including the contents of the   
   letter.”   
      
   Her father says he only released the letter to highlight the   
   misleading, one-sided picture his daughter was painting about   
   their broken relationship, according to the reports.   
      
   If the case goes before a judge, the Mail said it would ask for   
   Meghan to hand over all communications in which she had “caused   
   or permitted her friends to provide information about her to the   
   media or to seek to influence what is published about her.”   
      
   The paper also argues that royals “generate and rely on   
   publicity about themselves and their lives in order to maintain   
   the privileged positions they hold and to promote themselves,”   
   according to the docs.   
      
   The Sussexes have said they will fund the legal proceedings   
   privately, the Mail said.   
      
   The legal development comes in the middle of the Megxit   
   firestorm, with the Duchess reportedly the one pushing to quit   
   the royal family because it was “not working” for her, leaving   
   Harry “heartbroken.”   
      
   Meghan was spotted in Canada Tuesday for the first time since   
   the crisis began for a visit at the Downtown Eastside Women’s   
   Centre in Vancouver to discuss issues affecting women in one of   
   the city’s poorest neighborhoods.   
      
   With Post wires   
      
   https://pagesix.com/2020/01/15/meghan-markles-estranged-dad-   
   plans-to-be-key-witness-against-her-in-court/   
       
      
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