Meghan and Harry will have to speak in court in connection with a claim by the Duchess’s half-sister, Samantha Markle for “defamation and harmful lies”.
Meghan and Harry are to be questioned in connection with the defamation suit filed by the Duchess’s half-sister. Samantha Markle sued Meghan Markle in March 2022 for “defamation and harmful lies”. This complaint follows comments made by Meghan Markle in the Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021.
The judge having rejected the motion presented by Meghan Markle not to have to testify, she will have to answer questions in the context of this case, indicate the Times And BBC News this Wednesday.
“Humiliation and Shame”
The Duchess’ half-sister believes she was defamed when Meghan Markle said she grew up “as an only child”.
In her complaint, Samantha Markle assures that Meghan made “patently false and malicious statements” in front of a global audience, estimated at 50 million viewers and that she thus subjected her “humiliation, shame and hatred to a global scale”.
The Duchess’ half-sister believes she used “the powerful public relations resources of the Royal Family” to spread “lies around the world” about her and their father, Thomas Markle. She describes Meghan’s words as a “premeditated campaign to destroy their reputation and credibility”.
Samantha Markle claims 75,000 euros in damages. His lawyers also demanded that Thomas Markle come to testify in this trial, alongside Ashleigh Hale, the own daughter of Samantha Markle, very close to Meghan.
“That says a lot”
Asked by Oprah Winfrey about his relationship with Samantha Marklewho in 2021 published a book titled “The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister“, the” diary of the sister of the arrogant princess “a book supposed to reveal her life, Meghan Markle had launched” it is difficult to reveal everything, when she does not know me “.
According to the Duchess, her half-sister, whom she hadn’t seen for “at least 18 or 19 years”, took her surname back after she started dating Prince Harry. “I think that says a lot,” she added. She claims to have grown up “like an only child”. What Samantha Markle refutes, indicating that she spent a lot of time with her younger sister and even “lived in the same house at one time”.
In this interview, Meghan Markle had also long criticized her father for having betrayed her, by yielding to the sirens of the tabloid press.
