Can you believe it's been a year since Coleen Rooney sensationally accused '…… it's Rebekah Vardy's account' of selling stories about her to tabloids? No, us neither. But today, the high-profile libel case between Vardy and Rooney had its first hearing. Vardy denied the allegations Rooney made last year on social media, and later decided to file a libel case. Vardy's lawyer - Hugh Tomlinson QC - today told the high court that the allegations made by Rooney are too serious to be called 'Wag wars' when it 'continues to have an adverse impact' on Rebekah.
But did you know the case has a surprising link to Meghan Markle's privacy case?
As tweeted byMinnie Stephenson from Channel 4 News, the barrister representing Rooney is David Sherborne, the same barrister who represented Meghan Markle in her privacy case. Sherborne said people reading Mrs Rooney's Instagram posts consistently used the word 'account' and people would have known the posts could have been from 'someone using her (Rebekah Vardy’s) account'.
However, Sherborne has now been replaced in Markle's privacy case against Associated Newspapers - for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act for reproducing parts of a letter addressed to her father - after he lost the first pre-trial hearing in May and Meghan was ordered to pay the newspaper £67,888 in legal costs for that hearing.
In the latest update, the Duchess of Sussex revealed in court documents she had sought advice from two senior Royal Family members before writing a letter to her dad Thomas Markle 'in an attempt to get him to stop talking to the press'.
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