Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has filed another lawsuit against the British tabloid press. Her lawyers submitted documents at the High Court in London on Nov. 11 to refute "untrue and offensive" stories written about Prince Harry's wife, which involved her mother, Doria Ragland.
Reports revealed that Meghan's lawyers named Associated Newspapers, the parent company of Daily Mail, as the respondent to the lawsuit. The tabloid outlet published a story in February that stated Meghan deliberately did not invite her mother to her luxe baby shower in New York in favor of her famous friends.
Allegedly, Meghan's A-list celebrity friends, such as Serena Williams, Jessica Mulroney, Amal Clooney, and Oprah Winfrey's best friend Gayle King, were at the $300,000 party. The paper also suggested that most of the guests at the baby shower were people whom Meghan didn't know that well.
In the court documents, Meghan Markle's lawyers cited that the actual cost of the baby shower was a "tiny fraction" of the reported amount in the tabloids. There were 15 guests at the event that was organized by the duchess' close friends from college. Thus, debunking the claims that the people who were at the party barely knew the former TV actress.
The claim also denied that Doria was not invited to join her daughter and her posh friends. It stated that Meghan's mother was invited to fly to New York from Los Angeles, with the duchess even offering to foot the bill to her plane fare, but she was not able to go due to a work commitment.
Meghan and her friends held the baby shower at the penthouse suite of Mark Hotel. It is understood that the guests had fun with a flower arranging lesson from Repeat Roses. The flowers were then gifted and donated to the pediatric cancer patients cared for by the Ronald McDonald House Charities. Repeat Roses also posted a photo of the flowers on Instagram.
This is the second lawsuit against Associated Newspapers filed by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. In October, Prince Harry announced they were suing the company because their paper, Mail on Sunday, published private letters of the duchess to her father to paint her in the negative light.
The move was allegedly in violation of the Data Privacy Act. The news outlet said, however, that it will defend the cases "with vigor."
