From today's Guardian .........
The Mail on Sunday will pay the Duchess of Sussex just Β£1 in damages for invading her privacy by
publishing a private letter she had sent to her father.
The nominal sum is set out in court documents that also formally confirm that the newspaper β and its sister website MailOnline β has accepted defeat and will not be taking the long-running case to a supreme court appeal.
The outlet will also pay an unspecified sum for the separate case of infringing Meghanβs copyright by publishing large chunks of the letter.
Mark Stephens, a media lawyer, suggested that the nominal settlement for the privacy aspect suggested a weakness in that aspect of Meghanβs case: βNormally for that kind of invasion of privacy you would expect Β£75,000 to Β£125,000. It does show that the curation of her reputation was an area where she had effectively invaded her own privacy.β
The newspaperβs publisher has also agreed to pay a confidential sum in damages for copyright infringement. The
Mail on Sunday also faces having to cover a substantial part of Meghanβs legal costs, which could be more than Β£1m.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...personal-risks-mail-on-sunday-privacy-victory
The duchess had always said that her three-year legal battle against
Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and sister website MailOnline, was more about principles than money.