WHY IT IS GETTING MORE DIFFICULT FOR MEGHAN MARKLE AND PRINCE HARRY TO SPEND CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND
And it has nothing to do with the pandemic, but with a new twist in the legal battle they have against several tabloids
Soon it will be a year since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left for the United States never to return. They announced it on January 18 after spending more than a month on vacation in Los Angeles, where they spent Christmas with Meghan's mother instead of with the Royal Family, as had been tradition.
Of course, before formally abandoning their life as royals, the Sussexes returned to the UK in March to say goodbye and finalize the deals for their long-awaited freedom, which was finally granted by Queen Elizabeth II in April. And since then, they have never seen each other in person again.
That is why all the British people were anxious to know how the next Christmas would go when Harry and Meghan had to return yes or yes to England. Although not for pleasure, but because on January 11 the trial that the dukes are holding against Associated Newspaper, which owns several tabloids, is scheduled to take place in London, which they accuse of publishing false information about them.
A legal battle that demands that the couple be present in the courtroom, something that in order to comply with it forces them to travel to England two weeks before the date of the trial to keep the corresponding quarantine that the British government requires of those who enter the country from United States.
But according to what has just been learned, finally that Christmas return could not take place. Not if the judge in charge of the case accepts the formal request that Harry and Meghan's lawyers have sent to delay this meeting in court for several months.
And not because they don't feel like living an uncomfortable Christmas in Sandringham, there is surely something of that too; But because they want their legal team to thoroughly prepare the recent inclusion of their Finding Freedom biography as evidence by the tabloids to show that they have not broken any rules when talking about the Sussexes.
We will have to wait for the courts to decide to know if the Sussexes finally spend Christmas on one side or the other of the pond. And the truth is that anything can happen. Since this trial began, both sides have had the same number of victories as defeats: in August Markle got the names of her five best friends from being revealed; in September the tabloids with the inclusion of the newly published biography as evidence. Come on, this legal battle is going to last.
