Harry and Meghan end co-operation with tabloid press

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have told the British tabloid press that they are ceasing all co-operation because of <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;distorted&comma; false or invasive”<&sol;em> stories&comma; it has been reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The couple sent a letter to the editors of The Sun&comma; the Daily Mail&comma; the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror in which they said they will not <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion”<&sol;em>&comma; according to the BBC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know – as well as complete strangers – have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason&comma; other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue&comma;”<&sol;em> the letter said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Guardian reported the new treatment would apply to the four newspapers&comma; their Sunday editions and their online mastheads&period; The Daily Star has not been named&comma; though it is published by the group that owns the Mirror and the Express&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The shift means Harry and Meghan’s press team will not even answer calls from the papers&comma; the BBC said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The couple have stepped back from their royal duties and are living in California&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Prior to stepping down&comma; they launched an attack on the UK’s newspapers in a dedicated media section on their new website Sussexroyal&period;com&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"B9hZyh5puOv" data-captioned layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600"><button overflow type&equals;"button">See more<&sol;button><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The couple&comma; who said they will be adopting a <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;revised media approach”<&sol;em> from the spring&comma; criticised Britain’s royal correspondents and said they would no longer participate in the <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;royal rota”<&sol;em> system which has been used by Buckingham Palace for decades&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meghan is involved in legal action against Associated Newspapers&comma; publisher of the Mail On Sunday and MailOnline&comma; over an article which reproduced parts of the handwritten letter sent to Thomas Markle&comma; 75&comma; in August 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harry described the media as a <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;powerful force”<&sol;em> in an emotional speech just a day after saying he and his wife would be stepping back from royal duties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The duke has had a complicated and difficult relationship with the press through the years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His dislike of the media has seemingly intensified since the birth of his son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harry grew up fully aware of the impact of the media intrusion on the daily life of his mother Diana&comma; 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