A judge has ordered Meghan Markle to hand over six months worth of WhatsApp messages and emails as her legal stoush with a British tabloid heats up.
David Sherborne, right, has been sacked by Meghan Markle after speculation she ditched him solidarity with Amber Heard. Sherborne was the lawyer for Heard’s ex Johnny Depp in a recent court case. Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFPmagazine published a story with the heading “Meghan Markle’s Best Friends Break Their Silence: ‘We Want to Speak the Truth.’” In the piece, five of her friends anonymously and vigorously defended the embattled royal who at the time was facing a wave of negative press.
The case all relates back to a letter Meghan wrote to her father Thomas Markle after her 2018 wedding which he didn’t attend. Picture: Thomas Markle: My StoryHowever, Justin Rushbrooke QC, acting for Meghan, denied the claims and said the assertion was “fantastical” and “a conspiracy theory”. Meghan Markle has been accused of using her friends such as Jessica Mulroney, right, as a ‘de facto PR agent’ to influence the media. Picture: George Pimentel/WireImage.The paper’s legal team “cited a moment in April 2018 when the Duchess asked her good friend Jessica Mulroney to intervene in an interview thewas doing with the publicist Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne,” ITV’s royal editor Chris Ship has reported. “Meghan’s involvement has not been denied by her legal team.
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