Jan. 5 (UPI) —<\/span> A British publisher has been ordered to pay Meghan Markle, the wife of Prince Harry, a little more than $1 in her victorious lawsuit over publication of a private letter she wrote to her father.<\/p>\n Markle won the lawsuit last month against the Mail on Sunday for publishing the letter, which described a rift between she and her father Thomas Markle.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n The award the court ordered the publisher to pay was just \u00a31, which is equivalent to about $1.35. Experts say the typical award for such a victory is between $100,000 and $170,000.<\/p>\n However, the paper’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, also agreed to pay Markle damages for copyright infringement. That amount was not specified.\n<\/p>\n Prince Harry is also suing Rupert Murdoch’s News U.K. and Daily Mirror publisher Reach over phone-hacking claims that are expected be heard later this year. File Photo by Aidan Crawley\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Mail on Sunday will also have to pay for Megan’s legal costs, which could amount to more than $1.35 million.<\/p>\n The court ruled last month that Markle had a reasonable expectation of privacy for the contents of the letter to her father.\n<\/p>\n The news outlets were ordered to publish front-page and homepage declarations stating that they lost the three-year legal battle, which they did on Dec. 26.<\/p>\n Prince Harry is also suing Rupert Murdoch’s News U.K. and Daily Mirror publisher Reach over phone-hacking claims that are expected be heard later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The award the court ordered the publisher to pay was just \u00a31, which is equivalent to about $1.35. Experts say the typical award for such a victory is between $100,000 and $170,000.\u00a0File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo Jan. 5 (UPI) — A British publisher has been ordered to pay Meghan Markle, the wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1641395881_721_ph1.jpg\"\/)
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