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In reply to the discussion: Prince Harry Was Right and It's not just a matter of Royal Gossip [View all]pnwmom
(109,388 posts)78. Most of what either of has been able to observe has been filtered through the UK media,
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and there are numerous examples of their unfair treatment of Meghan (for example, the stories about her "baby bump" vs. Kate's.)
And Meghan's father and step-sister? He was hospitalized at the time of the wedding, so he couldn't go. And that step-sister has never been close to Meghan, which isn't unusual with older step-siblings.
Would you want to invite step-relatives to your wedding -- step-relatives who had been taking money from the media to blab about your life?
Aside from her long-divorced parents, its unclear if any of her relatives will get a coveted gilded invitation allowing them to witness the nuptials at St. Georges Chapel inside the thick walls of Windsor Castle.
Thats because the Markle family is a tangle of half-siblings, multiple divorced spouses and their children. Many are blabbing intimate details of their livesand Meghansto the media, and filling their bank accounts in the process, while taking time to trash-talk each other. The dysfunction, feuds and recriminations in this middle-class American family with more than its share of good and bad fortune are such that its hard to keep her family tree straight.
Thats because the Markle family is a tangle of half-siblings, multiple divorced spouses and their children. Many are blabbing intimate details of their livesand Meghansto the media, and filling their bank accounts in the process, while taking time to trash-talk each other. The dysfunction, feuds and recriminations in this middle-class American family with more than its share of good and bad fortune are such that its hard to keep her family tree straight.
For example, the stepsister who is 16 years older than Meghan smeared her to the media BEFORE the wedding. Do you really think she should have been invited?
Thomass first child, Yvonne (who now goes by Samantha Grant or Markle). Born in 1965, she has repeatedly vented her feelings towards her much younger half-sister to the press even though she hasnt seen Meghan since 2008. After Meghans royal romance became public, she called her half-sister narcissistic and selfish as well as a shallow social climber and that Harry would be appalled by what shes done to her own family. Then she claimed she was misquoted. Her two children by her first marriage apparently have nothing to do with her (one, Ashleigh Hale, a lawyer in the Washington, D.C., area, helped her aunt with her legal role in Suits and may score a wedding invite), while her third child, Noelle, splashed allegations of abuse by Samantha and her boyfriend (who is known to police) in the tabloids. If thats not enough, Samantha, who lives in Florida, is writing a book titled The Diary of a Pushy Princesss Sister, which she claims isnt a tell-all but rather a beautiful, warm, witty story.
https://www.macleans.ca/royalty/why-most-of-meghan-markles-family-wont-make-it-to-the-royal-wedding/
Also, Meghan did want to invite Samantha's daughter, Ashleigh Hale to the wedding, but the Palace was concerned about the optics.
https://people.com/royals/meghan-markle-could-not-invite-niece-royal-wedding-ashleigh-hale-netflix-docuseries/
"How do we explain that this half-sister isn't invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister's daughter is?" said Meghan, 41.
"With Ashleigh, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding," the Duchess of Sussex continued. "I was in the car with H. I had her on speakerphone and we talked her through what guidance we were given and why this assessment was made ... and that's painful."
"I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from," Ashleigh said. "To know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship that's so important to me was impacted in that way ... to feel like, because of her it was taken away, has been hard."
"With Ashleigh, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding," the Duchess of Sussex continued. "I was in the car with H. I had her on speakerphone and we talked her through what guidance we were given and why this assessment was made ... and that's painful."
"I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from," Ashleigh said. "To know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship that's so important to me was impacted in that way ... to feel like, because of her it was taken away, has been hard."
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Not a philosophical-ideological position that has ever worked out well
Just A Box Of Rain
Jan 2023
#10
Absolutely. Kids are much better off if they are raised by healthy, empathic parents
pnwmom
Jan 2023
#49
So you're blaming him for which womb he came out of and over which he had no control?
catbyte
Jan 2023
#43
The Firm was rich at the time of Harry's birth, not Harry. Everything he might have had
pnwmom
Jan 2023
#48
William and Kate both look as though the life is being slowly sucked out of them.
gldstwmn
Jan 2023
#81
There is a lot of talk and anger about the lies spread about him and his mom by Rupert Murdoch.
emulatorloo
Jan 2023
#14
The fact that you think William is "more handsome, smarter, more charming, more photogenic"
pnwmom
Jan 2023
#72
Most of what either of has been able to observe has been filtered through the UK media,
pnwmom
Jan 2023
#78
if the queen was so hurt, maybe she should have shut that tabloid smearing down?
CatWoman
Jan 2023
#94
Disagreeing: I read SPARE and Harry was far from whining. He didn't care his bedroom was smaller and
keopeli
Jan 2023
#31
What did he have to do with the potato famine or anything else that happened before he was born?
ShazzieB
Jan 2023
#42
Funny that you're directing your attack on the man who LEFT the family, not the ones who stayed. n/t
pnwmom
Jan 2023
#62
Come on. I'm Ojibwe. Am I supposed to blame Europeans now for my ancestors having their land stolen
catbyte
Jan 2023
#44
Maybe research history better: it was a blight and genocide, there was no famine
obamanut2012
Jan 2023
#65
That's what surprises me that people don't realize that the book is only one side of the story
questionseverything
Jan 2023
#57
Much of his anger is directed at the tabloids, and anyone can see the way they've treated
pnwmom
Jan 2023
#63
It's complicated. I wish Harry & Meghan all the best. They will do good in the world.
Joinfortmill
Jan 2023
#54