Meghan Markle complains to BBC over claims she apologised for misleading court
18.01.2022 - 23:01
/ ok.co.uk
Meghan Markle has made a complaint to the BBC for wrongly stating she had apologised for misleading the High Court.The 40 year old asked the broadcasting giant to "clarify" that she had actually apologised for "not remembering" asking her former PR chief to help with the controversial royal biography Finding Freedom, which was written by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie.The BBC said Meghan had "no intention to mislead the court on this". Meghan's complaint came as a reaction to a segment of a podcast titled Harry, Meghan And The Media, that accompanied broadcaster Amol Rajan's BBC2 documentary The Princes And The Press.
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In the podcast, Amol referred to her lengthy battle with Mail on Sunday over the publication of parts of "private letter" she sent to her father Thomas. During the case, it emerged that Meghan had forgotten the email exchanges between herself and communications secretary Jason Knauf, where they discussed speaking to writers Omid and Carolyn.
Amol said in the podcast: "Initially Meghan Markle had said she hadn’t helped Scobie with the book. She apologised for misleading the court on this." A statement issued by the BBC on the matter said: "The Duchess of Sussex has asked us to clarify that she apologised to the court for not remembering email exchanges with her former communications secretary, Jason Knauf, in her evidence and said that she had no intention to mislead the court." Meghan previously insisted that she and husband Prince Harry, 37, did not have any involvement in the book as a spokesperson for the couple said in 2020 that they "did not collaborate
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