Meghan Markle clarifies how much her New York baby shower actually cost
In February, Meghan Markle - just a couple of months before she gave birth to baby Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor - took a trip to New York to celebrate her baby shower with friends. While there, the Duchess of Sussex was photographed continuously by paparazzi and came under fire for her "over the top" trip - despite simultaneous reports which suggested her friends had organised and footed the bill for the event.
This was just one of numerous public attacks Meghan has sustained over the past year, and in September it all culminated in the announcement that she would be suing Associated Newspapers, the publishing company that owns the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
Of the legal action, husband Prince Harry described many of the reports about Meghan as "false and malicious", adding: "I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been. Because in today’s digital age, press fabrications are repurposed as truth across the globe. One day’s coverage is no longer tomorrow’s chip-paper."
In official court documents filed last week as part of her legal case, Meghan Markle's lawyers sought to set the record straight about various aspects of the baby shower.
First on the list of corrections were the claims that the Duchess had intentionally not invited her mum, Doria Ragland, to the baby shower. This, the legal document insisted, was untrue.
"The suggestion that the Claimant (Meghan) deliberately left out her mother from her baby shower and ditched her in favour of her famous friends is untrue and offensive to her," the lawyers wrote. "The Claimant’s mother was of course invited, and the Claimant also offered to buy her airline tickets. However, her mother was unable to attend due to work commitments."
The court documents continued clearing up a series of other mistruths - including the actual cost of the New York baby shower.
"It was also untrue and offensive to suggest, as the article does, that 'not a single guest had known [the Claimant] for more than a decade'. In fact, the true position was that the baby shower (which actually cost a tiny fraction of the $300k falsely stated in the article) was organised and hosted by one of her best friends from university; the fifteen guests who attended the shower were close friends and included long-term friendships some of which had existed for over 20 years," the papers read.
Well, that clears that up, then.
The Mail on Sunday told the BBC in response to the papers that it still intends to defend itself "with vigour", and that "there is nothing in this document which changes that position."
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