Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has argued her description of her childhood in her tell-all Oprah Winfrey interview was not meant to be "objective fact".
The 40-year-old royal is being sued for defamation by her half-sister, Samantha Markle, who has claimed the former Suits actress made "false and malicious statements" about her in her bombshell interview last year, and in legal documents applying to have the case dismissed, the duchess' legal team have argued she was making a subjective statement about her own feelings when she told how she "grew up as an only child".
The lawyers argued Meghan's description of her upbringing cannot be false because it is a "textbook example of a subjective statement about how a person feels about her childhood", they say.
According to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Meghan's legal team wrote in response to Samantha's allegation that her estranged relative told "false and malicious lies" in the interview: "Plaintiff [Samantha] first asserts that she can disprove that Meghan 'grew up as an only child'.