Finding Freedom, the bestselling biography about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, is apparently filled with inaccuracies, the Duchess of Sussex's lawyer said.
Jenny Afia, who is part of Meghan's legal team in her lawsuit against Daily Mail, filed a statement at the High Court in London to identify the inaccurate details in the book written by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.
Finding Freedom has become a crucial piece of evidence against the Duchess of Sussex's ongoing legal battle with the tabloid. Daily Mail wants the court to include the book in their evidence against Meghan to prove that she uses her friends to "speak" for her and become her PR machine.
Afia said that the biography's authors wrote anecdotes that have been widely reported in the tabloid, which are either "extremely anodyne" or products of a creative license. As such, the accounts written on Finding Freedom are not true.
One of the inaccurate stories Afia identified was the anecdote on Harry and Meghan's first date in London. The lawyer said that the book took details from the couple's BBC interview but added contents that were incorrect.
Afia also said that the authors used creative license to detail Harry's first meeting with Doria Ragland, Meghan's mother, a few years ago. The Finding Freedom authors wrote that it happened in Los Angeles but Afia said the first time Harry and Doria were in L.A. together was when the Sussexes relocated to the U.S. in March of this year.
Meghan was also never a visitor of a Botswana safari camp identified in the book, where the Sussexes apparently had their first holiday date. Harry also did not text Prince Charles about his feelings for Archie's birth because it is widely known that the Prince of Wales does not like to use a mobile phone.
It was widely speculated that Prince Harry and Meghan collaborated with Scobie and Durand for Finding Freedom prior to the book's release. In July, the Sussex pair issued a statement denying the speculations. They said that the authors based the biography's content on their experiences as members of the press group covering the royal family.
The pair had to reiterate this again in court as Meghan's trial with Daily Mail moves ahead. Sources disclosed to Vanity Fair that the Duchess of Sussex will not back down from the lawsuit even if it will cost her and Prince Harry millions.
The source said that Meghan is not wavering and is resolute about seeing this legal battle until the end. She is aware of the legal costs from the beginning but she wants to keep her fight with the tabloid because it led to the damaged relationship with her father, Thomas Markle.
