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Kate Middleton is taking legal action after a Tatler article implied she was 'furious' about increased royal duties

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The Duchess of Cambridge. WPA Pool/GettyImages

  • The Duchess of Cambridge is taking legal action after a Tatler article claimed she is "furious" about the increased royal duties she has had to take on since "Megxit."
  • A spokesperson for Tatler told Insider: "We can confirm we have received correspondence from lawyers acting for the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge and believe it has no merit."
  • Kensington Palace has not publicly commented.
  • However, a spokesperson previously said of the article: "This story contains a swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentations which were not put to Kensington Palace prior to publication."
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The Duchess of Cambridge has sent legal letters legal to Tatler after it published an article claiming she was "furious" about her increased royal duties, the publication has confirmed. 

However, a spokesperson for Tatler believes the legal action has "no merit."

"We can confirm we have received correspondence from lawyers acting for the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge and believe it has no merit," the spokesperson told Insider.

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Kate Middleton is on the cover of the July/August issue of Tatler. DAVE J HOGAN / GETTY IMAGES, Tatler

The Tatler profile on the duchess — titled "Catherine the Great" — made numerous implications, including that she had a fight with Meghan Markle over bridesmaids' tights, and that she was upset about the larger workload she received as a result of Markle and Harry resigning.

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The article reports that Middleton's 11 royal engagements undertaken in the month after "Megxit" was a "grueling attempt to buffer the barrage of bad news destabilizing the House of Windsor on a near-daily basis: the divorces (the Queen's nephew Lord Snowdon and her grandson Peter Phillips); Prince Andrew's mortifying fall from grace; the Sussexes' surly press statements; and those naff Chinese milk adverts. "

An anonymous source who claimed to be a friend of the duchess told the publication: "Kate is furious about the larger workload. Of course she's smiling and dressing appropriately but she doesn't want this.

"She feels exhausted and trapped. She's working as hard as a top CEO, who has to be wheeled out all the time, without the benefits of boundaries and plenty of holidays," they added.

Kensington Palace has not commented on the legal action.

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However, a spokesperson previously told Insider: "This story contains a swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentations which were not put to Kensington Palace prior to publication."

However, Tatler says Kensington Palace knew about the article before publication, previously telling Insider: "Tatler's Editor-in-Chief Richard Dennen stands behind the reporting of Anna Pasternak and her sources.

"Kensington Palace knew we were running the 'Catherine the Great' cover months ago and we asked them to work together on it. The fact they are denying they ever knew is categorically false."

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