MEGHAN Markle has today won a High Court bid to keep secret the identities of five friends who gave an anonymous interview to People Magazine.
The Duchess of Sussex is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, after a “private” letter she sent to her estranged father Thomas Markle was released.
Associated Newspapers has argued the existence of the letter had been discussed in an anonymous interview given by five of Meghan’s friends to People Magazine.
Meghan’s lawyers applied for her friends to be kept anonymous as part of the proceedings – something the paper’s legal team opposed.
The 39-year-old says her friends gave the interview without her knowledge, and denies a claim made by ANL that she “caused or permitted” the People article to be published.
The judge today ruled the identities of Meghan’s friends must remain confidential “in the interests of justice” – saying the decision had been made “for the time being”.
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