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11 December 2019 / Jeremy Clarke-Williams , Nilly Tabatabai
Issue: 7868 / Categories: Features , Data protection
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Welcome to the jungle (Pt 2)

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I’m a celebrity (of sorts), but don’t share my private information with the public! Jeremy Clarke-Williams & Nilly Tabatabai report on royals & wags
  • Having focused in our first article on sports stars and their interactions with the press and privacy laws, we turn our gaze this time to royalty, sporting and otherwise.

The tension between the tabloids and those in the public eye reached a crescendo in October with the legal actions brought by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The Duchess issued a claim against the publishers of The Mail on Sunday for misuse of private information, infringement of copyright and breach of the Data Protection Act 2018 in relation to the publication (in February 2019) of what she said was an edited version of a handwritten private letter she had sent to her estranged father.

Royal rumblings

It then emerged that Prince Harry had brought his own separate claims against the publishers of The Sun and the Daily Mirror newspapers for alleged phone hacking—the illegal interception of voicemail messages. Prince Harry also released an impassioned statement

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