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Meghan Markle Criticized for Forgetting Emails in Court Case
Meghan Markle has been criticized for saying she couldn't remember emails that were later shown to a court.
The Duchess of Sussex has always denied cooperating with the authors of Finding Freedom, a controversial biography about her and Prince Harry.
However, emails revealed in court show that she and Harry heavily briefed their press spokesman Jason Knauf before he met with writers Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand two years ago.
Royal biographer Angela Levin has called Meghan a very bright woman who is meticulous about everything she says and does.
She believes that someone with that level of attention to detail would find it hard to forget the difference that Finding Freedom has made about her father and the whole royal family unless there were strong reasons.
Yesterday, Meghan apologized to the Court of Appeal for not mentioning the emails in her long-running High Court privacy case against the Mail on Sunday for revealing the contents of a letter to her father.
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She said, “I did not have the benefit of seeing these emails and I apologized to the court for the fact I had not remembered these exchanges at the time.”
It was revealed yesterday that Meghan even wrote five bullet points and 31 reminders that she says may be helpful to have.
Angela Levin says that even from the notes that she left for the senior aide, her attention to detail was minutely done.
She made sure that the documents she gave him were numbered one fifth, and she finished every page with half a sentence so that no one could add anything.
In her statement to court, Meghan admitted that Mr. Kanauf did provide some information to the authors for the book and did so with her knowledge.
Angela Levin says that Meghan is brushing off new evidence in her court battle with the Mail on Sunday as if it's nothing.
But the details being revealed by former aide Jason Kanauf at the High Court are very serious and could cause significant damage to her reputation.
Ms. Levin told GB News, “I think the whole thing is absolutely extraordinary.
What is astonishing is that the palace aides are now talking and saying what they think has really happened.
Before, they followed the Queen's motto, which is to never complain and never explain, and staff did this too.
But Meghan and Harry are a different breed now, and their comments are thought to be so unfair and wrong that aides are now going to speak about their views.”
She claims that the Duchess tried brushing away Mr. Kanauf's evidence as though it's nothing.
But Ms. Levin claims in the court setting she was in, it is very serious.
She explained, “What she said in court was not true, and I think her credibility will suffer for this in a significant way.”
Ms. Levin says the Duchess is also desperate to not lose against the publisher.
She doesn't like to be beaten; she wants to win, and sometimes she goes overboard.
She doesn't listen to detail; she doesn't want to be told; she just wants to forge ahead.
During the court case, Meghan provided Mr. Kanauf with a list of talking points that she wanted him to share with the authors.
These included information on how she had very minimal contact with her half-siblings throughout her childhood, that she had been close for most of her life with her father and had supported him despite his reclusiveness.
She added that media pressure crumbled him, and he began doing press deals brokered by his daughter Samantha, and that despite countless efforts to support him through the past two years, they now no longer have a relationship.
Meghan also wanted Mr. Kanauf to share her perspective on the thinking behind a statement issued by her in November 2016 about the way she was being treated by the media, her happiness about moving to Windsor, and details on how the tiara for her wedding had been selected and misrepresented by the media.
In conclusion, Meghan Markle has faced criticism for forgetting emails in her court case against the Mail on Sunday.