Meghan Markle complains to BBC over Amol Rajan’s podcast

&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;"2">&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>Meghan Markle has complained to the BBC about Amol Rajan’s reporting of her legal case against the Mail On Sunday in his podcast&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rajan&comma; who fronted BBC Two’s controversial The Princes And The Press documentary&comma; said in his accompanying Harry&comma; Meghan And The Media show that Meghan cooperated with author Omid Scobie on the Finding Freedom biography and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;apologised for misleading a court on this”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A statement issued by the BBC on its website under Corrections and Clarifications said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We stated that the Duchess of Sussex apologised for misleading the court in her case against Associated Newspaper Group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Duchess of Sussex has asked us to clarify that she apologised to the court for not remembering email exchanges with her former communications secretary&comma; Jason Knauf&comma; in her evidence&comma; and said that she had no intention to mislead the court&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is the latest run-in with the royals for the BBC’s Media editor Rajan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His documentary about Harry and William’s relationship with the media was jointly criticised by the royal households – Buckingham Palace&comma; Clarence House and Kensington Palace – for giving credibility to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;overblown and unfounded claims”&comma; and prompted the broadcast of a Christmas carol service led by Kate Middleton to be moved from the BBC to ITV&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rajan later apologised for critical comments he made about the royal family a decade ago&comma; when&comma; writing for the Independent newspaper which he used to edit&comma; he called Prince Philip a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;racist buffoon” and Prince Charles &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;scientifically illiterate”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meghan won her long-running case against Associated Newspapers Limited &lpar;ANL&rpar; – publisher of the Mail On Sunday and Mail Online – after suing over five articles that reproduced parts of a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;personal and private letter” to her father&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The issue came up in court as to whether Meghan and Harry helped authors Scobie and Carolyn Durand with the Finding Freedom book about their lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The duchess’ lawyers said in 2020 that accusations Meghan &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;collaborated” with the writers was a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;conspiracy theory”&comma; but two months later it emerged that Meghan allowed an unnamed individual to speak to Scobie and Durand to prevent &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;further misinformation”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meghan and Harry’s former communications secretary Jason Knauf went on to tell the UK Court of Appeal a year later that he discussed the book on a routine basis&comma; with Meghan giving him several briefing points to share with the authors&comma; including about her childhood relationship with her half-siblings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a written statement to the Court of Appeal in November&comma; the duchess said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I apologise to the court for the fact that I had not remembered these exchanges at the time&period; I had absolutely no wish or intention to mislead the defendant or the court&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rajan said on the podcast&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It has since been revealed that Meghan Markle co-operated with him &lpar;Scobie&rpar; on the project&period; She’s apologised for misleading a court on this&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68eccc09964d9">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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