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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made it very clear in the past that they want very little to do with the paparazzi outside of their formal engagements and public appearances.

They have sued tabloids like the Mail on Sunday for invasion of privacy and spoken openly about the trauma of constant media harassment.

Fair enough. I can’t imagine getting any joy out of having a camera lens pointed at me at all hours of the day. The idea that public figures should just accept this as normal is absurd.

It’s especially absurd if you take into account that Kate and William don’t seem to have the same problem, at least to the same degree.

Their children seem to have remained out of the spotlight, too, with the exception of photos published by Kensington Palace.

For Meghan and Harry, the war with the media continues, according to The New York Times.

They filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit in California on Thursday after the paparazzi allegedly used drones and telephoto lenses to take pictures of Archie in the backyard of their Los Angeles home.

The photos show the Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their 14-month-old son in the backyard of a secluded estate in the Los Angeles area where the family has been staying since earlier this year, the lawsuit said.

The defendants were not named in the lawsuit because the couple do not know who took the photos, according to the complaint, which listed the defendants as John Does. The couple’s lawyer is seeking to subpoena people who may have knowledge about the intrusions.

The couple is suing under what’s known as the ‘paparazzi law’ in California that prohibits individuals from using airspace intrusions to take photos of people on private property.

“The plaintiffs have done everything in their power to stay out of the limelight — except in connection with their work, which they freely admit is newsworthy,” the lawsuit said. “But the photos at issue are not news. They are not in the public interest. They are harassment.”

The couple have retained the lawyer Michael J. Kump, whose other clients have included Kim Kardashian West.

Meghan and Harry discovered that someone was shopping photos of Archie, claiming that they had been taken on a recent public outing in Malibu.

It’s not like the couple has kept the baby entirely away from the media, and recently, Harry filmed Meghan reading him a story.

Considering that Archie is a baby, and therefore doesn’t do anything interesting, this should have been enough to satisfy people who want to look at him for whatever reason.

The royals have also doubled down on their accusations against The Daily Mail.

In the lawsuit, the couple complained that a British tabloid, The Daily Mail, publicized the location of the Los Angeles-area estate where they were staying, as well as the location of the Vancouver, British Columbia, suburb where they rented a home in Canada. Dozens of paparazzi staked out both properties, the lawsuit said.

In Southern California, the couple installed a large mesh fence to prevent the paparazzi from photographing them at the estate from a ridgeline, the lawsuit said. But the couple’s efforts to shield their son from the glare haven’t been successful because of the ingenuity and “insatiable” appetite of the tabloids, according to the lawsuit.

The Daily Mail really is one of the worst rags out there.

Piers Morgan, fresh off his recent written assault on the couple, probably can’t wait to sink his teeth into this one.

He’ll use any excuse to have a go at Meghan after that time she “ghosted him”.

[source:nytimes]