Meghan Markle’s lawyers slam Finding Freedom as ‘inaccurate’ after duchess is accused of ‘cooperating’ with authors
- 22 Sep 2020, 12:56
- Updated: 22 Sep 2020, 13:01
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It is the first time her team has said anything about the book, describing it as just a “product of creative licence”.
Her solicitor and Schillings partner Jenny Afia questioned some of the claims in a witness statement lodged with the High Court as part of Meghan's privacy case against the Mail on Sunday.
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Referring to the claims in the book, Ms Afia said: “The vast majority of these are either extremely anodyne and/or I understand are the product of creative licence and/or are inaccurate.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/12736252/meghan-markle-lawyers-slam-finding-freedom-inaccurate/
Another article:
Now Meghan blasts book that fawned on her and Harry: Biography is inaccurate and anodyne, the duchess’s OWN lawyer tells court
- Jenny Afia said that the Finding Freedom authors had relied on creative licence
- Book says Harry and Meghan stayed at Meno A Kwena safari camp on edge of Makgadikgadi Pans
- Afia said Meghan ‘has never visited nor been on safari to the Makgadikgadi Pans’
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Sam Greenhill Chief Reporter For The Daily Mail
Published: 17:04 EDT, 22 September 2020 | Updated: 19:37 EDT, 22 September 2020
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Lawyers for the Mail on Sunday told the court Meghan ‘does not object to details... being publicly disclosed, provided that such disclosure is couched in terms that are favourable and flattering’.
They told the court on Monday there were details in the book that could only have come from Harry and Meghan themselves. In response, Miss Afia’s witness statement set out examples of mistakes in the book which she said showed there was no collusion between the royals and the authors.
She said many supposed insights had been simply copied from public sources such as newspapers, social media and TV.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rate-anodyne-duchesss-lawyer-tells-court.html