A new episode, which brings with it an unexpected plot twist, adds to the endless soap opera it is the relationship between Meghan Markle and the British tabloids, and this time we are not talking about inferences or suppositions, but about a real confession of the Duchess which would seriously undermine her credibility in the eyes of public opinion.
Let’s take a step back, as we know the publishing group that owns the Daily Mail and its Sunday edition (the Mail on Sunday) lost in February the lawsuit brought by the Duchess against them, for the publication of the letter she had addressed to her father and which should have remained private. The London High Court last February had condemned the newspapers for “Violation of privacy”, but as we know the evolutions of the story are many.
The publishing group has in fact appealed, leading to the stand the key witness Jason Knauf, former Sussex communications secretary, who stated that the Duchess would ask him for advice in drafting the letter, precisely because she “expected that it would be read by others as well.” Knauf also added that the Dukes of Sussex would have somehow contributed to the writing of the book Finding Freedom and would therefore not be, as claimed up to now, totally unrelated to the “bombshell”.
A totally different point of view that would therefore see the dukes, but above all Meghan, given the very personal nature of the letter, no longer a victim, but a “Machiavellian puppeteer” who would have pulled the strings of the whole show, placing twists here and there that would only serve as artifices to make the show credible.
As we said, however, these are statements from a third person, although not unrelated to the facts and with a lot of emails exchanged with those directly involved in support of his thesis, but here is that the real plot twist, as anticipated, comes precisely from the hand of Markle herself. The Duchess in fact sent a statement during the appeal process in which wrote to be aware that “Mr. Knauf provided some information to the authors for the book (Finding Freedom ed) “and that the same would also” plan a meeting with the authors precisely as secretary for communications “, adding however that” the extent of the information he shared is unknown to me “.
He could no longer pretend he didn’t know, the e-mails brought by Knauf spoke clearly. Meghan also claims that she would not have confessed information of this magnitude earlier, because when she testified “she did not remember these exchanges”, and again: “I had absolutely no desire or intention to mislead the defendant or the court.” The forgetful Duchess, so we will remember her, who forgets to have shared information with the authors of the bombshell book that revealed to all the reasons for the Megxit. A small detail. Why should he have remembered this during the trial? Trash
Seriously, the matter now gets complicated and not a little for the dukes. Leaving aside the remote albeit plausible, especially now, hypothesis that the process regarding “violated privacy” is overturned, the damage to image is undeniable. Meghan Markle should now hope that the famous “Butterfly Effect”, the one according to which “the flapping of a butterfly’s wings would be able to cause a hurricane on the other side of the world”, is all crap, because the extent of the damage that this scandal could cause overseas is unimaginable.
Americans have always been on the Sussex side, thanks also to the endorsement of first-rate personalities (Beyonce, Oprah, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama), and if it is true that Markle’s intentions would have been those of a political career in the USA, should the process be reversed seeing her defeated and , in the most disastrous of hypotheses, judged to be perjury, it could hardly hope to play a different role from the one it has today.
America is in fact par excellence the place to be reborn, the place where anyone can reinvent themselves having second chances, but if there is one thing that the past has taught us it is that Americans can’t stand one thing: the lie in front of the evidence. What has just begun would seem like a real one Meg-gate. We will see if the Dukes will touch the fate of Nixon or those of Clinton. For now what we do know is that if it is true, as Churchill put it, that “the United States always does the right thing, having exhausted all alternatives,” the Sussexes seem to have very little left.
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