THE British monarchy chalked up an unexpected triumph against the U.K.’s tabloid press this month. Ironically, it took an outsider to do it, one who’s quit the royal family in high dudgeon over its controlling ways and upped sticks to Los Angeles.
Whether justice was truly served in the case of the Duchess of Sussex versus Fleet Street remains open to question. Libel and privacy trials are always a lottery in England — and their implications reach far beyond the wounded pride of newspaper editors because they reestablish the dividing lines between privacy and the freedom to report on the powerful.
Meghan Markle, who is married to Prince Harry, is jubilant nonetheless about her High Court success against the Mail On Sunday, a mid-market newspaper, over the publication of a private handwritten letter to her estranged father. She claimed a victory over press prurience.
But this wasn’t a story of
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