is this the post mexic future the
Duchess's first appearance since the
royal bombshell landed would you believe
it just a week ago today visiting a
women's shelter in Vancouver having
afternoon tea some habits don't die hard
it seems meanwhile in Bradford Meghan's
brother and sister-in-law carried out
their first official engagement together
since that statement from the Sussex is
the focus briefly on them but the
spotlight still very much on Meghan and
Harry but while there's been much
deliberation behind the scenes at
Buckingham Palace on just how Meghan and
Harry will disentangle themselves from
the Royal Firm today outside it and a
different route involving Meghan's own
family and a personal handwritten letter
which she wrote to her father and the
Mail on Sunday then published and the
trial could be very messy estranged from
her father Meghan is suing the mail on
Sunday for she says misusing her private
information breaching her copyright and
she claims selective editing today it
emerged that her father Thomas Michael
could be called into the witness box at
the High Court to testify against his
daughter and according to his other
daughter her dad would be willing to
appear that view by many as a lethal
weapon in the case across 44 pages the
mail on Sunday's lawyers defend the
article in question claiming the royal
family including the Duchess rely on
publicity about themselves and their
lives in order to maintain the
privileged positions they hold and
promote themselves they say the Duchess
did not have a reasonable expectation of
privacy that the contents of the letter
were private and would remain so they're
evidence that it did not infringe her
privacy they claimed the letter was
immaculate copied in Meghan's elaborate
handwriting arguing that the care she
took over the presentation meant she
anticipated it will be seen and read by
a wider audience there is a distinct
difference between what's in the public
interest and what the public are
interested in and there actually is no
specific statutory defense of in the
public interest to copyright
infringement
so the mail on Sunday the the newspapers
are just hoping that the publicity that
they're going to generate from this
legal action obviously is going to sell
lots of newspapers for them
speaking of which even across the pond a
live radio chat quickly moved on to
Mexican issues of privacy what are your
feelings about mexic I'm rather on
Harry's side I have to say uh-huh I
think if you know the tabloid press
effectively murdered his mother now
they're tearing his wife to pieces I
think as a man it's his job to protect
his family so I'm I'm with him as for
the question of mr. Marku as star
witness we perhaps or a preview last
year after Megan's dad appeared on TV
telling his side of the story I'm a
footnote and one of the greatest moments
in history rather than the dad walking
you down yeah upsets me somewhere but of
course being cross-examined in the
defense box would be an entirely
different experience although no less
exposing for Megan both sides could
still settle out of court with no date
yet set for the trial for now though
there is the prospect of a very personal
courtroom battle involving a daughter
and her dad as the world watches