Meghan Markle was left unprotected by the royal family during her pregnancy and unable to defend herself from hundreds of thousands of inaccurate articles due to the palaces media policy, her legal team argues in new court documents obtained by HuffPost on Wednesday.

The revelations are part of the Duchess of Sussexs ongoing lawsuit with Associated Newspapers Limited, which owns the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.

The case, which concerns issues of privacy, copyright infringement and the breach of the Data Protection Act 2018, centers on the Mail on Sundays publication of excerpts of a private letter that Meghan wrote to her father, Thomas Markle, in August 2018.

Associated Newspapers argues that its publication of the personal letter on Feb. 9, 2019 was justified, given that one of Meghans unnamed friends spoke of the letters existence in a People magazine feature published three days earlier.

The new documents, which show the extreme steps the duchess took to keep the letter from being intercepted by others, state that Meghan didnt know it would be revealed or referred to by any media outlet as she would not have consented to this.