Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has apologised to a court in London as she declared that she had no intention to mislead the court in her account related to her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday's publishers.
The Court of Appeal, hearing the Associated Newspapers' appeal seeking to overturn a previous judgment in favour of the Duchess, heard she had asked an aide to pass on information to the authors of a biography – despite having earlier said she "did not contribute".
In a witness statement to the court, hearing the case this week, the wife of Prince Harry said she accepted that her aide did provide information to the authors of the book with her knowledge but she said the "extent of the information he shared is unknown to me".
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She said: "When I approved the passage... I did not have the benefit of seeing these emails and I apologise to the court for the fact that I had not remembered these exchanges at the time.
"I had absolutely no wish or intention to mislead the defendant or the court." Associated Newspapers is trying to overturn a ruling after it published a letter from Markle to her father. Earlier this year, the 40-year-old now based in the US with Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, had won her privacy case against the publishing house.
The Associated Newspapers legal team are now seeking to overturn the judgment at the Court of Appeal, disputing that this was simply a private and personal letter – and have argued that it was crafted with the "possibility of public consumption" in mind.
The case is expected to conclude this week, with a ruling likely to be at a later date.