Meghan felt 'unprotected' by UK royal family while pregnant
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, felt "unprotected" by the British royal family while she was pregnant with her son Archie.
That's according to London High Court documents filed as part of her own legal action against a newspaper.
Meghan, wife of Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince Harry, is suing publisher Associated Newspapers over articles its Mail on Sunday newspaper printed last year, which included parts of a handwritten letter she'd sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.
Markle and his daughter have not spoken since he pulled out of appearing at her wedding to Harry three months earlier after undergoing heart surgery.
The Mail justified publishing the letter by saying five unnamed friends of Meghan, who gave birth to Archie in May 2019, had already put her version of events in interviews with the U.S. magazine People.
Her lawyers said in a submission to the High Court that articles in the UK tabloid media had caused Meghan 'tremendous emotional distress and damage to her mental health'.
Adding that she was 'unprotected by the institution, and prohibited from defending herself'.
The couple are now living in Los Angeles after stepping down from royal duties at the end of March.
