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Meghan Markle just celebrated a mini victory in her court case against Associated Newspapers, but her battle is nowhere near over. A British judge ruled in the Duchess’ favor last week, granting her request to postpone the trial. It will now be delayed for about nine months, starting in the fall of 2021 instead of January 11, as it had previously been scheduled.
Markle is suing Associated Newspapers, the publisher of Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, for invasion of privacy. She and Prince Harry brought up the lawsuit against the company in October 2019.
According to a statement the couple put out at the time, the publisher's put out "knowingly false and malicious" reports.
The court case surrounds five articles from in February 2019 that published portions of a handwritten letter Markle wrote to her estranged father, Thomas Markle. The letter speaks to a private family matter between the father and daughter.
The Daily Mail referred to the letter as "sensational" when it published the excerpts.
Associated Newspapers is contesting Markle's claims against them at the High Court in London. A private hearing was held last Thursday, after which Judge Mark Warby granted the Duchess' application to delay the trial.
The reason for the request to delay will remain confidential, according to HuffPost.
In their case against Associated Newspapers, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are demonstrating the ways in which the media can be harmful to its subjects. In their October 2019 statement, they said, "There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda... I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been."
The couple stepped away from their royal duties at the start of this year, presumably to distance themselves from intrusions by the British media.
