Kate Middleton has won against Tatler over a piece published on the magazine's online site that apparently contained "a swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentations." The magazine's owner, Conde Nast, reportedly agreed to delete and correct some of the details in the article that profiled the Duchess of Cambridge.
According to Entertainment Tonight, many of the paragraphs of the article "Catherine the Great" have now been removed. A note at the end of the piece was also added to indicate that the content has been edited. It comes four months after the story was first published online.
Kensington Palace sent a letter in behalf of the Duchess of Cambridge to Conde Nast following the publication of the article that attacked her and her family. Tatler originally stood by the piece and its writer Anna Pasternak.
The story depicted Carole and Pippa Middleton, Kate's mother and sister, as snobby people and compared Carole to a snooty character on television. The Tatler piece also commented on the Duchess of Cambridge's thin weight and suggested that she might have an eating disorder similar to Princess Diana's bulimia.
The artcile also implied that Kate felt "exhausted and trapped" in her work with the royal family after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle resigned from their royal duties. A part alluding to the Duke of Cambridge's "incandescence" about Megxit and how it has affected Queen Elizabeth was also deleted.
A section where Kate allegedly had a poster of Prince William during her teenage years was also removed from the story. Kate has denied this poster narrative several times before.
According to reports, the Tatler story was upsetting to Kate and the Middleton family, prompting the duchess to lawyer up. The moved surprised royal observers since Kate is good friends with Tatler's editor-in-chief, Richard Dennen.
Sources said that the two have known each other since their time in college at St. Andrews. The magazine is also the favorite society magazine of the royal family and the aristocrats. Kate's circle of friends has a lot of unanswered questions because the Tatler piece apparently had friends as sources. But according to them, real friends won't diss her and her family.
A spokesperson for Conde Nast said that it has a longstanding relationship with the royals and wanted this legal issue to "end amicably." Kensington Palace, however, won't comment on the latest developments.
