Meghan Markle issued a moving statement on Thursday following a U.K. legal ruling in her favor in a privacy case against Associated Newspapers.

The Duchess of Sussex took legal action against Associated Newspapers, which owns the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, over the latters publication of excerpts of a private letter that she wrote to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.

After two long years of pursuing litigation, I am grateful to the courts for holding Associated Newspapers and The Mail on Sunday to account for their illegal and dehumanizing practices, she said in a statement shared with HuffPost.

These tactics (and those of their sister publications MailOnline and the Daily Mail) are not new; in fact, theyve been going on for far too long without consequence, the royal added. For these outlets, its a game. For me and so many others, its real life, real relationships, and very real sadness. The damage they have done and continue to do runs deep.