US judge confirms trial date for Samantha Markle’s defamation action against the Duchess. Meghan Markle appears to be in hot water.

Samantha, age 57, is suing Princess Harry’s wife on allegations made in an Oprah Winfrey interview and an unauthorised memoir titled Finding Freedom.

A Florida court has set a trial date of October 2023 for the defamation action if it is not settled or resolved through mediation.

Samantha, who is claiming damages of $75,000 (£57,000), disputes Meghan’s claim in her television appearance that she “grew up as an only child.”

She also asserts that the Duchess of Sussex told “false and malicious lies” about her “rags-to-royalty” upbringing at the detriment of her father’s family.

Samantha argues that the Finding Freedom book subjected her to “humiliation, shame and hatred on a worldwide scale”.

It comes after Meghan’s legal team filed documents in July asking the Florida court to dismiss the case. However, Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell permits the proceeding to continue.

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