Meghan wins battle to keep friends anonymous

The Duchess of Sussex won a court battle on Wednesday (August 5) to keep the names of five of her friends private, for the time being at least.

It's part of her legal action against a British tabloid newspaper.

Meghan is suing Associated Newspapers after its Mail On Sunday paper published parts of a handwritten letter she had sent to her estranged father, Thomas Markle.

In doing so, Meghan says the newspaper invaded her privacy and breached her copyright.

As part of its defense, the newspaper argues that it published the letter in response to an article in the U.S. magazine People.

That was based on anonymous interviews with five of Meghan's friends.

The judge at London's High Court ruled that their names could not be published as part of her lawsuit.

The full trial is not expected until next year.