THE Duchess of Sussex faces a huge legal bill for her privacy case.
Meghan has racked up £1.8million ($2.31m) costs already.
She is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter she wrote to her estranged father in 2018.
The newspaper will also tally up costs of £1.2million ($1.54m), documents released in court revealed.
The judge at London’s High Court, Master Francesca Kaye, described the legal bills as “excessive and disproportionate”.
She added that, despite those involved, the case was a “personal dispute” with “no wider public interest”.
Meghan, 39, is expected to face dad Thomas Markle, 76, during the ten-day trial in January.
Her legal costs include £524,000 ($671,000) for trial preparation and £304,700 ($390,500) for the trial itself, along with £200,000 ($256,000) on bringing the case to court, £190,000 ($243,000) for disclosure and £104,110 ($133,400) on statements.
Meghan fired barrister David Sherborne this month and replaced him with Justin Rushbrooke QC.
She was previously told to pay the paper’s £67,000 ($86,000) costs after losing an earlier hearing.
The Duchess is suing for breach of privacy, copyright and data protection.
Meghan ‘involved in book’
MEGHAN collaborated on bombshell book Finding Freedom about her and Harry, it is claimed.
The allegation was made in her case against the newspaper she is suing for printing extracts of her handwritten letter to dad Thomas Markle.
Mail on Sunday lawyers claim she had briefed pals who revealed its contents in a “favourable” interview with a US celeb magazine.
