It’s absolutely no secret at this point that Meghan Markle’s half-siblings are complete garbage dumps of humanity. They trash her constantly in the media, they’re looking for any kind of paycheck from British and American tabloids, and they are just looking to ruin Meghan in any, shape or form. It’s really tacky. The latest from the Markle relations this week is that Thomas Markle Jr. – Meghan’s estranged half-brother – wrote a note (BY HAND) to Prince Harry and sent it to the palace. But before he sent it to the palace, he provided it to In Touch Weekly to publish. You can see their scans of the letter here.
In a handwritten letter shared exclusively with In Touch, Meghan Markle’s estranged brother, Thomas Markle Jr., tells Prince Harry that it’s ‘not too late’ to not marry his sister.
“As more time passes to your royal wedding, it became very clear that this is the biggest mistake in royal wedding history,” Tom warns. “Meghan Markle is obviously not the right woman for you.” he also adds that she is a “jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage.”
“Not to mention, to top it all off, she doesn’t invite her own family and instead invites complete strangers to the wedding. Who does that?” he asks. “You and the royal family should put an end to this fake fairytale wedding before it’s too late.” Tom concludes his letter with, “Also you would think that a royal wedding would bring a torn family closer together, but I guess we are all distant family to Meg.”
These people are trash. They’re so unpleasant. Ugh. So, for what it’s worth, Meghan is paying a slight bit of attention to her nasty half-siblings. She’s paying attention enough to let People Magazine know that her father is invited to the wedding.
Bride-to-be Meghan Markle will have both of her parents with her at her royal wedding to Prince Harry in almost two weeks. Despite reports claiming that her father Thomas Markle had been shunned by his daughter, he will be at Windsor Castle’s St. George’s Chapel to see Meghan, 36, marry her royal fiancé on May 19.
In a handwritten letter published in In Touch, Markle’s son, Thomas Markle Jr. — who is Meghan’s half-brother from her father’s first marriage — said that Meghan’s father did not receive an invitation to the royal wedding, but PEOPLE understands that he is expected to be there.
She’s damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t. It was probably the right move to invite her dad because at least she gets to say, “look, I invited him, I’m not a monster.” As for the half-siblings… I think most reasonably people can step back and look at the full picture. Meghan is estranged from them for a reason: because they are foul and disgusting. They are selling her out to anyone and everyone. They have no chill. Of course she doesn’t want them at the wedding. They’re showing why they don’t belong at the wedding every single day.
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Man. I am not a fan of hers, but this is complete and utter bullsh*t she has to go through. Nobody can choose his or her family which they are born into, and she had to work really hard not to be in their circles, and to change her surroundings, so I can imagine how difficult this is for her.
Nasty people
Nasty people who are being rewarded by the media for bad behavior. Much more newsworthy if they’re viciously selling her out than saying I don’t know her well but wish her the best.
And apparently, the siblings don’t have a good relationship with their father, either. They probably looked all over his house for a formal invitation, so they could cash in by selling the images to a magazine and couldn’t find it. Meghan probably called her dad and spoke to him directly. Smart woman. She knows who she’s dealing with.
The half-siblings have no relationship with either of their parents, not even with their mother or even their other family members. The half brother has been estranged from ALL his family (father, mother, sister(s) sons etc) due to his drug and alcohol problem, and of course due to his physical violence towards women. The half sister has been estranged from ALL her family (father, mother, brother, half-sister, daughters and son etc) because of her nasty behavior. The problem is with them, not with Meghan.
+1000
Lovely and regal on Anzac Day!
It’s better for Princess Henry I/w / the royals not to associate – who seem to not be close – estrange for years and should continue …
Even the NA Canadian stylist is using trying to improve her business/family with The HRH Prince/ess Henrys Royal status to better. Malroney has now post photos at her site with Princess Henry on vacay after meeting the HRH Prince Henry. She seem No better than the childhood friend selling out to the media – (only for more notoriety). Something the RF is aware and remove friends as Maid of Honour to Meg (only siblings of and the Royal Traditions) – imagine that individual not of her family could would use the Royal association for gain.
I want to tell them (or anyone else who behaves this way), “It’s not your wedding!”
Weddings and funerals seem to bring out the worst in some people.
I cannot fathom what would motivate someone to write a letter like that. The level of nasty is incredible.
Jealousy is a great motivator. And a bit of racism, too (how dare this half black woman get a “fairytale” ending while I have to scrounge around for tidbits to sell to the rags?)
I absolutely agree with @namechange
Very subtle signs of racism in that note. It’s apparent to me why Meghan wants nothing to do with these people. The scant few times she’s seen them in her life, I’m sure she’s had to deal with microagressions from them.
I have some 2nd hand experience with seeing a first family of racists have to deal with a parent that has married into a family of color. You get the normal resentments and jealousies because they may feel replaced or threatened, plus the added toxicity and rancor that racism will provide. It’s a nasty cocktail.
A few clues from the letter that I took as subtle racist digs: ‘Make a joke of you and the royal family heritage.’ “HERITAGE?!” Everyone knows that’s a white nationalist and ‘white genocide’ buzzword. Hear that Tikitorchers everywhere? Seems like ol’ Thomas has a bit of the Trumpster in his makeup. Did Trump’s own personal Igor Stephen Miller reach out to Thomas Markle? He’s signaling big time like they do in politics and on the stump. He wants the racists and nazis all over his own sister! Loathesome. Let’s break it down. The royal family has had many grotesque monsterish human beings in it, and I’m not just talking about Prince Charles tampon love letter to Camilla. So what could her brother be referring to when he says “heritage?” We know what.
“FAKE, ” he also writes. Sound familiar yet? How could a marriage be ‘fake,’ if two people get married? He’s not saying this from any religious standpoint like people sometimes do with 2nd marriages after anulled marriages. So he must be implying some kind of perceived flaw within his sister that would make a union not real. This guy is in Loving V Virginia territory. He may not like it, but it’s consecrated and ordained and licenses are had. So ‘fake,’ implies one thing, that Meghan in some way doesn’t count.
This guy has done a 180. He thought if he minded his P’s and Q’s he’d be in like Flynn, fortunately Meghan knows he’s as much trash as that half sister.
I don’t doubt they’ve made it known they’re willing to cooperate with any trash outfit that wants Meghan trashed.
They are ‘the ugly Americans,’ and the ugly Americans are usually almost always racist trash too.
The level of uneducated idiots is incredible as well. We all have relatives we don’t won’t to be around and that’s perfectly acceptable to me. Why do they think they’re owed anything from her especially an invitation to her wedding? She is doing the right thing by ignoring them – they want the attention from her.
Money is the motivator….the male half sibling was looking for the money for his next beer and he because he is daft he is constantly being manipulated by the media to say and do stupid things.
Publishing it is a much greater sin. It was so obviously off the wall. In Touch shouldn’t have touched that one…
I had a friend in university who was getting married and was stressing about her mother. The mother was an alcoholic and it was a given that she would go on a roaring binge at the reception and behave terribly. The bride HAD to invite her mother. So I suggested that a family member or family friend be assigned as the mother’s watch dog and when mom started to get angry drunk and on the verge of making a scene, this person would get mom the hell out of there. It worked perfectly 🙂
Sadly Meghan Markle does not have this option. If invited, her half-siblings would milk this situation by running to the press to tell them every little detail (or make it up). MM can ditch them if she wants. I’m OK with it.
+1000
@last para.
Same. Just terrible all around. I figure (much like the other commenters here) that any family invited have been told to keep it under wraps from these family members. For this exact reason. Insanity.
I hope she and her parents have a lovely time at the wedding and don’t give one thought to these trashy people.
They are showing the world why she made this decision.
Side note….according to a columnist in the Guardian, the 1200 commoner guests to the wedding venue have been asked to being their own food…pack your own picnic, no food or drink for sale here.
…..What sort of invitation is that? The RF cannot provide some sort of simple but appropriate refreshments? As the columnist pointed out (think her name is Suzanne Moore, but I may be wrong) this essentially turns the guests into unpaid extras. Thoughts?
There will be refreshments. It’s in the original Guardian article. Just not a full blown lunch.
Then the taxpayers would be complaining, about feeding the 1200 people, if it rains would the Royal Family be accused of not providing umbrellas also.
Just saying, they’re going to be standing around for awhile, why not bring what they like to eat and drink.
In the end it’s their choice, and the few I saw with the invitations were happy to be invited.
“Dear guest, you are among the hand picked visitors to Harry and Meghan’s wedding, chosen for your hard work at [charity] or your skill with [thing]. Now you understand that we won’t let you inside the church, or give you anything to eat, but please bring a Union Jack and/or a Stars and Stripes to wave, as you make Their Royal Highnesses look beloved and popular.”
I’m a big fan of the royals, but I wouldn’t go to the wedding under those terms. These people are invited to be extras, only extras on a film set get fed.
ETA: And they were first promised tea and a sausage roll, then told they’d get nothing, now food is “limited”, by Monday they may be back to the sausage roll again if the backlash is sufficient.
Why on earth would the taxpayers need to pay for it? i’m sure that by putting their considerable resources together Charles, Harry and Meghan could provide some sandwiches for their “guests”.
This is really, really cheap, and nothing but a PR move designed to showcase how much the royals appreciate charity workers while also having adoring crowds for H&M to wave at. Makes for better TV viewing i suppose.
I sincerely hope Meghan does something about this.
Taxpayers pay for security – not food, flowers….
Next people will be complaining that a special cake for 1200 picnickers hasn’t been made and hand-served by liveried servants…
Exactly, Jane!
And Meghan’s family can be terrible and Meghan and Harry can be using these plebe “guests” as propaganda.
Both can be true in the universe.
Who serves food at a wedding ceremony, though? It’s not like the public has been invited to take part in the (private) reception – just the ceremony.
If they served them food at the church, it would be the first ceremony where people ate food at the church service. I know there are people that dislike/hate/detest (take your pick) Meghan and Harry but c’mon! Lets not act like weddings serve their guests at this point in the ceremony. What would be the purpose of the reception then? KP has announced that there will be refreshments AFTER the service (which is the standard norm for everybody, why Haz and Meg are held at different standards is beyond me but WE), can we wait and see what they serve before we jump down their throat?
Exactly nobody serves food at the Church, you only get food at the reception.
money doesn’t buy class! If you make a show of inviting a bunch of commoners to your wedding then it stands to reason that they are your wedding guests and should be treated as such. If not, don’t invite them? Unless they are only invited to the ceremony? which, again..seems tacky?
They aren’t wedding guests, they aren’t invited to the wedding. They applied to receive free tickets to be on the grass outside the Chapel. This is inside the fortification wall, but not inside the Chapel. The rest of the crowd is on the streets outside the fortification walls.
ah! so they are not actually guests then, much less of an issue then. They shouldn’t be referred to as “guests” then, just invited onlookers.
@notasugarhere – I’m sorry I kept reading “fortification wall” as “fornification wall” and thought WTH? Hahahah
😉 I couldn’t think of another way to write it. If I wrote “castle wall” people might think these people were inside the building, instead of being in the garden.
What’s up with the commoner guests? One of my sorority sisters was at Will and Kate’s wedding, and I always wondered how she snagged an invite. Do they just randomly invite a bunch of regular people? Is there a lottery? Could that awful woman in my pledge class somehow be connected to the BRF?
There are members of the public (from their charities, etc.) who have been invited to the ceremony itself. This is about the members of the general public who applied to get free tickets to be inside the grounds of Windsor castle. Outside of the Chapel, inside the garden walls of the Castle, but not guests at the wedding.
Yeah but you’d think with that money they have they could put on some buffet my husband and I were laughing. One guy said he worked out there was a McDonald’s nearby so he was going there. I just hope they provide rain jackets/umbrella’s as weather here is no guarantee. But they need some people there if not looks very bare. I will be at the gym so I can read all about after the fact.
I don’t see the big deal. It would be tacky for a regular person to do it – like if I sent invitations to stand outside at my wedding but not get any food or go to the reception. But this is different; it seems as though it’s more of a spectator thing and being present for a historical event. People will save those invitations and feel like part of history. So basically it seems like they’re more like, invited spectators, not invited guests.
As written above, if they fed the crowd a full meal people would complain about that too. The people with these tickets aren’t invited to the wedding, they’re invited to stand within the grounds of Windsor Castle during the event. Similar to Sophie and Edward, and I’m not finding anything about E&S feeding the ticketed crowd of 8,000.
I found a couple of old listings online with a ticket, map with info about First Aid, etc., and a letter from the Superintendent of the Castle for E&S’s wedding. This is part of what it states –
“The Superintendent of the Castle presents his compliments and has pleasure in sending you tickets to come and view the Royal Wedding from the grounds of Windsor Castle on Saturday 19th June, 1999. As you can see from your ticket entry will be from 1:30 p.m. Everyone will be screened before entry is allowed into the Castle Grounds. As the wedding is not until 5:00 p.m. it is a long time to wait therefore you are requested to bring drinks with you. There will be toilets available. If anyone in your party is infirm it may be wise to bring a folding chair.”
I think the smaller number of tickets for this event is a reflection of soft target security issues as much as anything.
@notasugar
Why would people complain if they used their own enormous resources to provide a few sandwiches to the people who have come all this way to help them celebrate their wedding? If anything, the royals would be lauded for their generosity.
It beggars belief the mental gymnastics being done to excuse this tackiness. Also just because it also wasn’t done for Edward & Sophie doesn’t mean it’s right. It was tacky then, it still is today.
Amazed at the mental gymnastics going on to attack these two for the silliest excuses.
They would be attacked for using taxpayer money, because even now there are people who think HM and Charles aren’t paying for the wedding itself – even though that has been stated officially. Or people would complain they didn’t like the food, it wasn’t good enough, they got food poisoning, they lost their viewing spot because waiters weren’t available to hand deliver the food, whatever.
Edward and Sophie don’t appear to have fed the people they allowed in the Castle grounds, ridiculous to think Harry and Meghan are supposed to feed the crowd. People chose to apply for tickets, they’re invited to bring their own picnic if they want to make a day of it. Reasonable and logical.
MrsBump, I agree with you on both posts, however, just a month ago people were complaining about the cost ( & included in the cost was the cost to feed each person 1 sausage roll & tea).
Personally if I invited people to an event- I would offer refreshments, but what Meghan & Harry are doing is inline with what past royals did. I’m checking past royal forums etc. to see if there was ‘outrage’ but so far I’ve found none…
When Sophie & Edward married there was no food. Sophie & Edward’s wedding seems to be a template for this wedding. Apparently many BRF weddings invite more people to the ceremony than they feed.
@notasugar
This isnt just about H&M, shocking i know, but not every criticism is an attack upon them. The monarchy exists thanks in part to these univited guests, it will create barely a dent in the Royals’ fortune to provide some food and drinks. Circumventing the matter by saying that people would then complain about them not being served by waiters or getting a piece of cake is just disrespectful. Nobody is asking for so much, here this is just the bare minimum. C’mon this is a happy occasion, people have travelled from so far to see the happy couple, this isnt much to ask. Surely anybody can see that.
Instead of saying that it wasn’t done before so they is no need to do it now either, they could set a precedent on how the public should be treated during these happy events going forward.
Again, these people aren’t wedding guests. They are members of the public who chose to apply to get free tickets to be inside the garden/fortification wall instead of on the streets of the village of Windsor. They aren’t guests at the ceremony inside the Chapel.
But yes, the BRF does tend to invite more people to the real ceremonies than they do to the reception. As do many everyday people. W&K did this, leaving HM to pick up the slack and have a wedding supper for all the royal guests. W&K didn’t invite the royal guests to their reception, so HM smoothed it over with her own event.
Could you link that info? That the people applied for free tickets. Because it isn’t correct according to reports and Kensington’s Twitter account which use the term “invited” and stress on what criteria they were chosen.
From Kensington Palace “The couple has asked that 1,200 people, from all corners of the UK be selected by Lord Lieutenants, include young people who have shown strong leadership and those who have served their communities”
Here is a link:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/harry-meghan-invite-2-640-folks-to-help-celebrate-wedding-1.3825561
So yes, they have chosen accomplished people, from diverse backgrounds to make them look good and generous. And these people are treated like extras. The Guardian article keeps emphasizing that point:
“Kensington Palace (probably using the retch-inducing phrase “reach out”) announced earlier this year that Meghan and Harry were going “to allow members of the public to join in their celebration”. Very special people representing “youth” and “diversity” and – whisper it quietly – poor people would be allowed inside the perimeter of Windsor Castle. This is not just a wedding, remember, this is an attempt to build a bridge between high society and well … society.”
“Those who work with deprived and alienated people have been advised in letters from lord lieutenants “to bring a picnic lunch as it will not be possible to buy food and drink on site”. What? What kind of invite is that?”
“… the people chosen because they serve the most vulnerable in their communities will be left milling about for hours and are now Googling Windsor for the nearest supermarkets.”
@Tonya – the “royal” family COULD afford a sandwich or two and some tea for 1200 “guests”. No need for taxpayers to pay for that.
Even if they end up serving something – mainly because of that Guardian article – the mere fact that there is a discussion about this is tasteless on the part of the “royal” family. Very, very poor PR.
Ex-Mel, did you read my post? Please re-read …Everyone is aware that the BRF can afford a sausage roll (usual snack) & tea, but they usually don’t…
I don’t know if you know that there is unwritten & sometimes written rule that British ‘commoners’ are advised & expected to supply their own refreshments/snacks (which they often carry in Tupperware containers), etc. to events like these…
If this is ‘tasteless’ on the part of the BRF then that is your opinion…
Like I said above: The BRF often invite more people than they feed to their weddings… This has been going on ever since they started making their weddings “less private”…
I’m wondering now why it is such an issue????
Pimo they’re members of the general public, who nominated themselves or were nominated, to be put into the ticket lottery. They’re not invited guests to the wedding ceremony, but again are the crowd allowed in the fortification walls like the crowd was for Edward and Sophie’s wedding. Who were also not fed, but you don’t seem to be protesting over that.
This provides a way of letting people who want to participate, participate, but in a number that security can deal with. Also giving security a way of knowing far in advance *exactly* which people those 1200 are, especially in the new era of soft target terrorism.
It is such an issue because it is these two, Tonya. The fact that this is how the royals do things, did for previous weddings at Windsor, etc. doesn’t matter.
@Pimo, here’s a link to a family that “nominated” someone and got an invite to stand outside the castle: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/16/manchester-arena-survivor-gets-invite-to-royal-wedding/
Just because the word “invite” was used it doesn’t mean they were invited to the wedding. Just like nota said, they “nominated” themselves or a family member to do something that they felt would be an honor to be invited to do. For haters, this is an opportunity to whinge about nothing, for those invited, its an honor!
Thank you Masamf, I haven’t seen any news that mentioned that people nominated themselves or volunteered. I take back what I wrote. In the articles I read the whole process sounded very condescending. This sounds much better.
@Nota, you don’t have to keep repeating over and over that they’re not technically wedding guests. We know, we get it!!
Some of us just disagree on whether or not refreshments should be served, regardless of what you want to call these people.
Like Liberty, I adore Harry and Meghan so this has nothing to do with being a “hater.”
Honestly if KP hadn’t mentioned it yesterday, it probably never would have occurred to anyone to get all up in arms about it.
Yes, they are just telling the spectators that it’s ok to bring food and drink and make a picnic out of it. That’s useful information.
To provide food would open another problem. The legality of offering food to 1500 hundred people is not the same as it once was. Garden parties of yesteryear are fine for a small crowd, but nowadays it doesn’t work. No matter what they offered, there would be complaints, so it is better to leave it off.
On a smaller note, we do not allow unfamiliar refreshment, home cooked foods, different foods, etc. at events some of my children attend that are connected to some of their activities. It takes time to approve a menu, a caterer, the purveyors and to make sure no allergens are involved and people are respected. We have children from different religions, backgrounds, and needs and it is essential that we recognize that.
Food allergies are a newish problem (not really but no one cared before) and something that has to be considered.
Food is just more complicated now.
I think they should have done a small village wedding Jane Austen style. Low expectation, lots of photos and exclusive without being classist.
Far from being a “hater” — I am all for Harry and Meghan getting married, have been from the start, and think inviting the public is nice, and am looking forward to the day. I do not scorn them for stinting on sausages. But yes, I am surprised as these are guests standing outside a venue, and so, yes I do feel some light refreshments, and tea and water, would be kind and cheery and, also —-wise. I have done a few events albeit none royal in nature and the treats were largely there strategically, to keep people on their feet and hydrated, the side benefit being that it is a nice little gesture. Though of course, we were minding PR.
Doesn’t have to be a cake and butlers and a blowout feast, lol …It is a ceremony as someone pointed out above. Just….a little token festive something. Just opportunity for celebrating, a little simple take-home token treat as an outdoor guest comfort, courtesy Harry or Charles. A small cost could make these guests feel truly like welcome guests, and the world probably would not end.
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@Liberty, I think we all jumping the gun here. Lets wait and see what happens on the 19th before we jump to any conclusions. Jumping to conclusions (at this point in the game) and bashing Harry and Meghan for some outcome that hasn’t even happened yet is for haters. We simply don’t know what they will offer or not offer. Its wise to get the facts first then render judgement instead of doing it the other way round.
If they provided food and drink for sale, they’d be pilloried for “profiting” off the wedding “guests.” If they provided it for free, they’d catch hell for wasting the taxpayer’s money, for not paying attention to potential allergies, for food that’s too low-class or too high-class.. It’s a no-win. I think “bring your own” is a smart decision.,
So glad to hear that her dad will be there. For many reasons. Because it will probably be nice to have him there, because it was probably a big deal for a recluse to travel that far to such a public event which will likely not be the most comfortable, but he’s still going to do it and just because I’m happy for Meghan that things are going well enough that having her dad (and hopefully some other family, too) there to celebrate her big day is a reality.
PLUS – perhaps between this and the media restrictions, she might just be able to have a day complete without the stench of these people at ALL! Good for her. I will sleep a little better knowing that they’ll be sitting wherever they are, watching their dad at their sister’s wonderful day, and hopefully understanding why they are not there.
Ha ha, true. I read something one of the nieces, I believe a daughter of the step-sister. She doesn’t talk to her mom, but wishes she would shut up. She only had lovely things to say about Meghan.
Meghan’s father is not a recluse, this term is just used by British tabloids and Meghan haters to diss the man. He bought a house in Baja, house is close to Rosalito beach , he goes to the mall on his own, he does his own shopping, he interacts with the locals in his area, what part of that life spells “recluse”? The guy just retired to live a quiet life away from busy LA and thats all. Are all people that live quite lives called recluse(s)? A large percentage of Americans are choosing to Latin America to retire there because living a good life in the sun is a lot cheaper and its a opportunity to escape the harsh winters, it has nothing to do with the being recluses.
The irony of the situation was that if the half-siblings had kept quiet from the start instead of blabbing to the press they may have been invited, even if just to keep up appearances.
Given the age difference and the general character of Tom Jr and Samantha, I’m not surprised that Meghan never had much of a personal relationship with them (moreso if there were old issues with money and jealousy), but I’m sure they would have been invited anyway if they didn’t make a public spectacle of themselves and aired dirty laundry in public the moment Meghan was outed as Harry’s GF. If They were normal, discreet people they may have been invited so the Palace wouldn’t have to explain Meghan comes from a slightly dysfunctional family (except from her parents).
No I don’t think they were ever going to be invited. Meghan knew what they ‘re really like and the masses are seeing it now.
They were 14 and 16 when Meghan was born, Doria left after two years.
Honestly I think after the grandmother passed away, get togethers with Meghan and her half-silblings were over.
Would Tom Jr have been allowed into the UK for the wedding, serious question, but didn’t he just recently get arrested for holding a gun to his partner’s head in a drunken fight? How is he expecting an invite after that and why is no publication he is yapping to mentioning that at all.
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@Zapp Branigan, I don’t believe any of them (at least those that have been talking) would be admissible to the UK.
Half-sister: with her disability, she requires major insurance dollars, I believe that would be a major deterrent
Half-brother: Criminal record, not admissible.
Half-nephews and their mother: With that marijuana (weed) farm, none is admissible.
My guess is too that they were making deals to be “royal insiders” and those deals were contingent on them scoring an invite. Such awful people. They just keep showing their a$$. People think just because you are related they can talk about you in all kinds of ways and still think they should be in your life.
Meghan’s siblings are showing every time why she hasn’t spoken with them in years. Just terrible people. Their own mother and children have nothing to do with them.
I don’t have any strong opinion on her (although I do ask myself why such an “empowered” feminist decided to renounce to her job to enter the old Firm, but well..another story), but I can totally understand why she would want distance from these people. Really!!! They are making fools of themselves. I can’t even find words to describe what these people are. Even if they would really believe that she’s all of those things, who would really go through such a length to try to damage her image in this petty way? It all sounds so high school. These people are just insane and should be kept very far away from her. Disgusting people.
There’s a trade off on entering the Firm. It’s archaic and mostly obsolete, but at the same time it provides an incredible platform. A royal promoting a cause will lend it exposure that most of us could only dream of. There are ways to use the position to do some real good and I hope Meghan will do that.
(although I do ask myself why such an “empowered” feminist decided to renounce to her job to enter the old Firm, but well..another story),
Love?
Anastasia, interesting how that is always the sideswipe isn’t it? No one seems to bring up problems with feminist career women Maxima, Letizia, Mathilde, etc. marry in.
@notasugarhere
Is that always the case?
I don’t follow the other women you talked apart from Letizia and that is exactly the same question I would have towards her. And in my opinion that was extremely difficult for her and is probably something she sometimes regrets. She had a great career! It’s all gossip and conjectures (after all, that’s what we are all doing here isn’t it?) but if I remember Letitzia before and after the wedding, I see someone that seems very changed and she comes across nowadays as a bit of a sadder person.
I don’t know well the work of Meghan Markle to say if she’s a great actress or not, but I know that she is also accomplished. I find her super interesting, she seems very intelligent and she’s drop dead gorgeous, so for the gossip side of it she is a great add on.
@Anastasia
Sure, that is the answer that most makes sense and I can also believe in that 😉
But it is still something that probably many women would wonder even before going on a first date, isn’t it? It’s really no secret that if you want to make part of it you need to renounce to a lot. She seemed to be very involved in social/political causes, so that must also have an impact in her. I do hope anyway that she doesn’t stop getting political and expressing her opinion after the marriage and I hope she brings a bit of the so much needed revolution to the Royals.
I don’t see Letizia as much changed, nor are Maxima and Mathilde. She had a bad time of it with the ridiculous yellow press and her horrible in-laws (king, Cristina, Inaki), but she’s come through it fine. These people made a choice to direct their career and ambitions at a much larger cause. Most of them seem good with their choice. More circumspect in their public actions, sure, but dedicated to the lives they’ve chosen.
Letizia and Maxima are Queens with all the power that goes with that. Meghan is marrying 6th in line and will be told what she can and cannot do. As will’s kids get older, she will be less and less relevant unless she is allowed to work more than the Lazy Trio.
Queens who are essentially powerless in the royal machine, who are the consort not the reigning monarch. In royal families where the monarch is an instrument of government, not the head of it. They have chosen to marry in, they have chosen to work with certain areas of interest. But if the government told them not to do X, they wouldn’t do X.
Meghan is marrying into a position that gives her more freedom in many ways. More leeway to pick different causes, to follow Camilla’s lead in taking on things that were once considered controversial. More Madeleine and Mabel style. The BRF is changing, slowly, with the times. They’ve already shown to still be supporting the work she did with WorldVision, given the way they’ve directed some of the wedding donation money.
If W&K’s kids are anything like their parents? They will be tabloid fodder but won’t be working until they are at least 35. Harry and Meghan will be one third of the working royal family for the next 30 years. Gives them decades of let’s face it, an incredibly cushy life, while working with the charities of their choice. And without much of the ceremonial role that William keeps trying to duck.
Meghan was already ordered to drop all of her old charities. Women’s issues and the UN are too controversial for the royals?? That’s wacky!! I don’t think that she will have the power to pick and choose, and it does seem like Maxima at least pretty much makes her own rules. Camilla is older, and people dislike her anyway, so maybe she feels, I’m going to do what I want. Meghan is brand new and will do as she is told. I may be wrong, but that’s the impression I get.
And even if William’s kids aren’t working, they will suck up all the oxygen in the room and Meghan and Harry will be the Andrew and Fergie, or Sophie and Edward with very little attention paid to them. Imagine Harry, bald, old, still lazy. He won’t be getting much attention at all. They may actually have more freedom to do what they want at that point if they are still a team.
And Minime, I’m not British, but my understanding is that part of the bargain the BRF makes is that they do NOT comment on politics. I know Charles has talked about issues, but as far as Meghan, wife to 6th in line to the throne and an American, bringing up politics and revolutionizing the BRF, I think I’d eat my hat if she was allowed to do that. Cause that is her life from here on – allowed to do things or not allowed to do things. I would imagine it is going to be a huge transition for any intelligent American woman.
Royal life is a big transition for anyone. The more secure they are as an adult human, the better they do. I don’t have big concerns on this part with Meghan Markle.
Yes, an evangelical charity based in Canada and the UN are considered controversial. Shock and surprise – not the end of the world. She’s still supporting one of the charities – related to girls education and empowerment – through wedding donations.
You might dislike Camilla but there are plenty of people who like her. Many people today do not remember Diana, nor do they keep her on a pedestal. She’s Charles’s first wife, had a lot of affairs, died young in a car crash. Ultimately another footnote.
Maxima has gotten in plenty of trouble, from her comments about immigration to having to curb her enthusiasm to let Willem-Alexander take center stage. But I don’t see her suffering for it, just as I doubt Meghan and Harry are going to be suffering.
These two are going to end up getting the best of both worlds by a long shot. Beautiful home paid for by someone else, not dealing with the pomp and circumstance that William hates but has to take on, and yes, getting to pick and choose the majority of their work. It isn’t doom and gloom, but rather some of the best seats in the BRF house.
@VeronicaT, how did you learn she was ordered to drop her charities? Not trying to be argumentative, just wondering if the info is from responsible sources.
or maybe because she knows that her career wasnt going anywhere being 37 and biracial must be tough to get roles and maybe she craved something that harry gives her and that is stability and love. i feel for meghan – having to struggle for years with little money and support herself esp with no family apart from her mother – i hope that she and harry are happy together
@Norah, Meghan show was still going strong at the time she started dating Harry (it still is as we speak). Why would you think “her career was not going anywhere”? And being biracial is not a debilitating disease, Meghan already said that TPTB at Suits created a role that required Rachel, not a white or black or whatever race the character was, they just wanted Rachel and Meghan fit that bill, so her being biracial or black had nothing to do with her job. And being 37 is not like having ones foot in the grave, she is only 37, not 87. Meghan being classified as “having to struggle for years with little money and support herself esp with no family apart from her mother” is one of the weirdest things I’ve read. Meghan’s worth is said to be $5 million, I wouldn’t consider that the struggling to feed oneself honestly. She was raking in $50,000 per episode of Suits! I know some people here don’t think that a lot but there are people that earn only $50,000 a year and are not considered “struggling” . And little or no family but her mother is nothing to feel sorry for Meghan for, I’m sure she was perfectly happy with having just her mom, many people do just fine “with no family apart from their mother” .
I can now see why she’s attracted to the royal family. The royal family by comparison sounds more normal than her own family, and that’s saying something! Upon reflection, moving to another country to get away from her family makes sense! Contending with archaic traditions sounds easier to grapple with than dealing with the lunatic halfl-siblings.
I think Meghan is attracted to Harry because she is in love with him (and he with her), period. She hasn’t lived in the US since 2010, has not had any communication with her half siblings since 2011 at their granny’s funeral, there’s been zero contact with that side of the family except her father. And from what our British cyber friends have said here, there won’t be “that much” communication between Meghan and the rest of the royal family except her husband and the most immediate family members. We don’t know yet whether they will get along, all families have their issues but for now, it seems like they like each other. So IMO, Meghan wasn’t grappling with any of them, IMVHO. I believe her love for Harry is genuine rather than a means to escape.
The thing about being an empowered feminist, though, is that you can choose to do whatever you damn well please. Including changing careers–and marrying into the royal family is definitely making a career change.
Yes but what’s their endgame?
They’re setting themselves up to be forever the go-tos for anti-MM quotes? They live to destroy MM? Can’t be a whole lot of money or future in this gambit.
I don’t get it. At all.
Those type of folks are so self-destructive…critical thought NEVER enters their mind…so they don’t think from A-Z…hell, they don’t get past A-B…they feel entitled…and when you’re THAT entitled…it’s devastating to ANYONE that’s around you (see current POTUS)…which is why she stays the HELL away from them!
There is no end game. Tom jr is hurt, because he thought Meghan would invite him, since he’s been talking her up to the media for the last year and a half (of course that was dumb of him, he should have kept a dignified silence, but he doesn’t seem to be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree). And now he’s lashing out.
Samantha is just a bitter witch.
Jane, you must have missed his last media blitz- I’ll try to paraphrase:
Jr. basically said that Meghan said ‘she didn’t know him’ & had refused to respond to his correspondences. Apparently he wanted financial aid to purchase a farm…when Mr. Markle didn’t get what he wanted, he said that he would embarrass her…
I’m not a lawyer/attorney etc. but that sounds like extortion/ ‘a shake down’…
Sound similar to Letizia’s cousin trying to extort work contacts and contracts out of her, which Letizia and Felipe ignored.
I was wondering about this in one of the more recent posts about this topic. After the wedding, I don’t think many tabloids will keep running to them for quotes. They clearly don’t have contact with Meghan, so the well is running dry when it comes to stories and anecdotes about her. How many more times can they say “She’s so stuckup, I hate her,” and so on?
For some reason, this reminds me of James Hewitt. Every so often, he seems to resurface with more stories and anecdotes about Princess Diana. After so many years, you would think he would run out of stories to tell, you know?
I think that the well has already run dry…the stories from the half siblings and the Priddy woman are becoming very repetitive.
Entitlement and wanting as much money as they can get. Seriously, they were trying to guilt Meghan (and Harry at points too) to invite them. Maybe to get them to shut up and only say nice things by paying them or whatever.
They were the ones that kept feeing info about Meghan’s dad to the press, when it’s pretty clear that even their father doesn’t have much to do with either of them, but doted on Meghan. He was clearly always going to be invited to the wedding given the way Meghan has lovingly spoken about him for years, even if he didn’t feel up to walk her down the aisle. I think all that talk about the father being bankrupt from Tom Jr. and Samantha are lies/BS too. Tom Sr. actually has two properties in his name (in LA and Mexico) and has done some traveling. I think he just made a bad investment that led him to have to write off the loss or something.
So yeah, they are both a bunch of entitled, money seeking assholes, who were never close to their half-sister, and called Meghan’s mother “The Maid” because they were racist and embarrassed their dad had gotten together with a black woman. I think Meghan tried to be cordial and nice to them when they would meet at family events and such but, at some point, had enough and just cut them off. Neither of them were even at her first wedding, and never seemed to have pitched a fit about that, which tells you all you need to know.
envy is a powerful motivator –
So Meghan cancels the wedding ,gives the ring back to Harry and she returns to acting. What then? Do these trashy siblings think anyone will care or pay for their opinions on Meghan ?
Their fifteen minutes of fame is winding down and soon they can crawl back to obscurity.
If they thought trashing their sister would score a invite or somehow mend a family rift. They failed big time and are just pathetic.
I’m sure they will be around to give their opinion on her with every major event. A baby, an anniversary, overseas diplomacy trips, major speeches… They will find a way to keep making money off her. I wonder if they will demand plane trips for the right to see any potential children they may have, more headlines for the DM. It must have really sucked and hurt when her best friend sold her out for a few bucks and a shot at her ex-husband. Even her best friend’s mom got in on the action selling stories. I wonder what their end game was? These people have every intention of making her pay and pay for ignoring them and not catering to them. Their jealousy and bitterness will keep them front and center for a long time, and no matter when the marriage ends (if it does), they will be there to crow “I told you she was no good” They will wait with bitter, baited breath for the rest of their lives if they have to, hoping she will fail.
They’re not going anywhere. The DM and other tabs will always use them as a source when they want to trash meghan.
Regardless of her half-siblings I didn’t think it was up for debate. I thought Meghan if not a good relationship with her father, they were at least talking. In her engagement interview it didn’t seem like there were hard feelings and seemed he would at least attend. I know it’s the Royals but it’s baffling how angry Meghan’s siblings are considering they haven’t spoken to her in years. If she was marrying a gardener I doubt they would even care. I wish somebody would find out if any Markles attended her first wedding.
I am willing to bet that they were not invited to her first wedding or part of her life with her first husband because they haven’t discussed it or Trevor whilst selling every minute detail of their contact with her and provided photos. No detail too small to sell.
It’s really not that surprising. They’re haters with a capital “H”. They ignored this woman her entire life and looked at her mom as the help. They thought they were better than her. Then she becomes an actress. Then she is set to marry the original recipe AngloSaxon royal descendant. They are literally sick with jealousy.
What I LOVE about Meghan is that she got that degree from Northwestern University…reminds me of that old…”You can perform…but have your degree to fall back on…” stance!
My question around him being there wasn’t because of a potential bad relationship, rather that he works very hard to stay out of the media glare.
I dont see why he wouldnt. He’s not his children and shouldnt be punished for their cruelness. The two of them continuosly lie and I don’t even buy that the two of them even have a relationship with him. Everything they’ve said about him has proven to be false. I’m just ignoring the two of them- every vile word that comes out of their mouths.
Can’t wait to see him there.
I didn’t know Jr sent the letter to the palace and made a copy for In Touch for print. This was blackmail: invite me and the rest of the Markles or this letter goes to the press. No response, Jr goes to In Touch. 24 hours later People reports Meghan’s mom and dad are coming to the wedding, which was probably the plan all along. Notice it did not say the rest of the family is invited. Jr’s stunt backfired on him and he can’t be reached for comment now. Jr doesn’t want to explain his lie to the press. In Touch Weekly has egg on its face for running a story that used a person with zero credibility as a source.
It was only the half-siblings and Thomas’s brother, saying that he was not attending the wedding.
The man knows his two money grabbing children, would run to the press and spill their guts, so when they asked, he said he don’t know what is going on.
I am sure he was egged on by the magazine to write the letter…
Meghan’s half siblings HAVE BEEN ANGRY at her for doing something with her life…this anger didn’t just start…and Meghan was there for their Grandmother…HOWEVER…I SEE why the minute her Granny passed she cut off communication with her half-siblings…they’re a MESS…the types that will drag you to hell with them for trying to help them….What her brother NEEDS to do is get a mirror from the dollar store in look in it…and be angry at what he sees reflected back at him….
Her half-siblings are the worst. They always knew they would not get an invite. That is why they started selling stories. When it became clear that Meghan wasn’t going to let them spoil things, they doubled down. They are in for a rude awakening because eventually the stories will stop making them any money.
I don’t know Merritt I think they can milk this for quite some time, especially once Meghan gets pregnant.
Possibly, but eventually rehashing the same story will stop selling. At this point the tabloids they have sold stories to can just cut and paste parts of old interviews into stories.
Not sure how much the royal family can do, but I do hope they’ll put a stop to these nonsense with her half-sibling after she’s part of the royal family. They’re such a disgrace. I feel like the more I saw the headlines from these people the more I like Meghan and sympathize with her.
As long as the tabloids make money off of the stories, they’ll keep paying the half-siblings for their stories.
Gosh what an awful family.
Anyone read the story about Doria? Seen Leaving Oprah’s house with armfuls of freebies. I imagine there’d Be some pretty salty comments here if it were Carol Middleton… I’m eagerly awaiting the mental gymnastics coming to excuse Doria 🙂 🙂
I wonder what Oprah manufactures?
Everything
Oprah’s rep already denied it. The story came from the Daily Mail, and despite the fact that she was reportedly spotted there, there were no pictures so I was skeptical from the beginning.
Where did you see the denial from Oprah? I thought it was pretty funny – a visit to the unofficial queen of USA!
Wowser, I’m wondering if we read the same story…I’ve read several…one stands out vividly in my memory- the one that reaked of racism- are you referrencing that one? The one where the writer wrote about Doria’s nose ring & dreadlocks…
Wowsers,
Where is the evidence that Doria has ever pimped her daughter for personal gain?
Pfff. Oprah gives out CARS to her audiences, just for funzies. If I went to her house and DIDN’T walk out with armfuls of swag, I’d be pretty pissed…
Sorry to disappoint but this was denied by Oprah’s reps to Omid Scobie, so a nothing burger like everything else the haters try to drum up to tarnish Meghan by association. Please don’t use the Daily Fail as your source of information as they routinely invent stories and sources without shame. They were also refuted by the guy they said was Meghan’s hairdresser who denied ever even meeting Meghan much less being the one who would do her hair for the wedding.
the daily mail hates meghan so dont take it seriously
Meghan half siblings are never going away.
The minute she is pregnant they will be running to the media saying they want to meet their nieces/nephew.
Sad how jealous people can be of other people’s success.
I think you are 100% correct KeWest, we haven’t heard the end of these people and likely never will, ugh!
The only way they’ll go away is if people stop paying attention to them.
WHAT A DICK MOVE!
Notice how many times he wrote “royal wedding” instead of just wedding. I know this is no major insight, most people realize this, but all those half-siblings want is MONEY. $$$$$$$
Can those half-siblings just take a long walk off a short pier? Like some others, I’m fairly neutral on Megan. But damn, this is RIDICULOUS. I feel for her.
I feel so awful for her that they are trying to crap all over this. But the way she’s handling it–by not responding to one speck of their nonsense–is phenomenal. The best way to handle these dopes is to do just what she is doing.
I really wish her dad would just shut down this bullsh*t.–Issue a statement saying “I AM invited to the royal wedding, and I wish my two oldest children would shut up with their nasty mean-spirited comments and just leave Meghan alone! She has her reasons for not inviting her half-siblings to her wedding.”
Or he sees no reason to dignify it or give it more air time.
What the hell is wrong with her half-siblings? Are they racist? I think they must be certifiably insane to expect wedding invitations after how they’ve treated Meghan. So, they share a father. So what? They’ve been horrible.
If my husband and I had a wedding with guests (we eloped/married on beach), there are certain family members I would’ve never invited because they’re canceled. One happens to be my father because HE happens to be an abuser in every sense of the word. I also would’ve avoided one much older cousin of mine, who my father groomed – big shocker: he turned out to be a sexual molester too. There’s no reconciliation with those people.
Regarding Meghan’s father, I’m thinking he had no control over his other jerk adult children. Meghan knows this, and they are probably close. All assumptions on my part.
I’m still reeling from that letter that Meghan’s “loving” brother wrote. It really does remind me of my family. My father has gone out of his way to get the nice members of “his” family turned against me. And this is when I was a child! There really are some twisted people in this world. Unfortunately, they happen to have relatives that suffer the consequences.
“What the hell is wrong with her half-siblings? Are they racist? ”
It has been reported the half-sister used to refer to Doria as the help …
@Notasugarhere – thank you. Just what I suspected. Disgusting☹️
Her “siblings” clearly have some unresolved issues around their father’s remarriage to a black woman and loathe that the child they had together is the one who went on to make something of herself. They’re pathetic, and so are all the rags that keep handing them checks to spew bile. It was always clear that her father was going to be at the wedding, many royal reporters have said that was confirmed at the very first press briefing after the engagement, but I guess that doesn’t generate clicks.
This, exactly. It seems so much that they hold a great deal of bitterness that mom & dad divorced, and dad started another family, presumably greatly decreasing any time spent together ( or abandoning them entirely when they were teens, a time of need ). I’m sure that is the origin of the rancor and bile. Sad for them. The predicament isn’t Meghan’s fault, and as adults they could have opened their hearts and reached out to their father, but it was more satisfying, I guess, to find a scapegoat for all of their anger and bitterness.
Oh the timeline is everything here. This is jealousy that the father started another family.
He sounds like an awful father, can’t even keep his son in line. His own children don’t respect him and make a complete fool of the family – I’m shocked the father cannot shut this down, makes ya wonder. He sounds weak.
I’m starting to get the whole picture here…Sounds like she is the wonderful dynamic person she is today thanks to her MOTHER
I don’t know. Her siblings are definitely shady and jealous, but I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that she is going to break Harry’s heart. That she is acting her way through this new part. She tends to leave men quite easily. I want to like her, and I do, but I have some teeny doubts.
She might, or he might break her heart or they could live happily ever after or anything in between. It’s really hard to tell from even people you know, much less ones you know only through a carefully cultivated pr campaign. Let’s all enjoy the spectacle, even with the shady half-sibling gossip, and hope for the best for all of them. The wedding, I’m sure will be very beautiful to watch.
Tell your stomach to relax…There’s nothing this woman’s past that suggests she’s shady…quite the opposite…she’s a woman with a magnificent educational pedigree who was out there fighting for social justice when she was just a child…and she fell in love with a Prince who’s about that life too! Seems pretty cool!
Lala,
That’s what I see too. And who knows what happened with her first husband? Seems like she left him very abruptly, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was always more in love with her and she felt pressured by their friend group to accept his proposal. That crap happens in your 30s.
She left two long-term relationships in rather abrupt manners. The husband and the chef.
@tw, please lets not pretend to know any more about Meghan than what’s in the media. We have no idea why her relationships broke down, we don’t know who left who, why and at what point.
“Break Harry’s heart”?? Nah, I think it’s the other way around. Anyhoo, I will sit back and watch this show Harry is trying to produce and direct.
Harry was very right when he said “people THINK they know me” !
Meghan has had two relationships in the last decade that anyone can confirm while Harry was apparently tomcatting around the UK shagging a number of models and celebutantes but she is the heartbreaker? Ok…
Just released in an official pr: her dad will walk her down the aisle!
Do you think In Touch paid for the letter? If so that’s also terrible, but her half siblings are awful. Does she only have the two?
Happy her father was invited. Meghan doesn’t seem like the kind of person who would invite him just for show, and at least it looks like she has a decent enough relationship with him. He has been very quiet about it all thankfully. It’s hard to tell what kind of relationship they have with all the noise from the half-siblings. It could be fine, but they are just making all this crap up. There really aren’t words for how awful the half-siblings are.
I’m sure In Touch paid for the letter, in fact I’d bet that Thomas Jr. shopped around the idea of writing a letter to Harry and shared it with the highest bidder.
It’s been known for quite some time that her relationship with her father is fine because she had a recent Thanksgiving photo of both her parents hands up on IG. That fact was ignored for drama. Just like other facts are emphasized for drama. It doesn’t matter how many obviously good relationships and things she’s had or done the more negative stuff is what people keep circling back to and pointing at even though there are only about three situations in 36 years of life.
Poor Meghan. You don’t have to like her or have a good opinion of her (although we’ve only “known” her for a short time, so the strong opinions either way make me laugh) but her half-siblings are heinous. That letter is just awful.
I know, I didn’t watch Suits and know nothing about her, except what you see and she is definitely a striking woman, but I have no opinion about her either way. Still her half-siblings actions are just beyond the pale. Even if I hated her I would think that was over the top for your half-siblings wedding.
If Meghan’s half siblings were black, I’m afraid the media will not have used them to embarrass her as much as they have tried to do. The Daily Mail have twisted itself into a pretzel since Meghan’s romance with Harry was revealed, claiming because she is half black, she is straight outta Compton and ghetto, meanwhile the two half siblings have been the trash and yet, they pay them to sling their vile attacks at her. Meanwhile, her mother and her side the family except for one uncle has kept a dignified silence.
I’m loving Meghan marrying into the royal family, if for nothing else but to give all the racists and uppity royalists a heartburn each time they hear her addresses as HRH Duchess…..
Why does the media use Jr. as a source when he has been proven (time & time again) to be a liar (unreliable)???
Because it makes them money.
…and they are losing magazine subscriptions by the millions. They will print just about anything to sell their product these days. Trump must be a gold mine for them.
The DM is pushing a negative slant on meghan and the estranged siblings and ex-friend are willing to assist their agenda.
Generally, I am with people on the racism angle, but in this case I’m not so sure. It would be presented different if they were black for sure, but I still think her nasty half-siblings could have a large platform to spew their nasty lying gossip. Unfortunately people seem to read it and it sells magazines. I think the half-siblings are coming off like white trailer trash to the majority of people, and Meghan seems great especially since she isn’t responding at all about any of it directly. Just sending quiet PR notes her Dad is going to the wedding and supposedly walking her down the aisle. She is definitely putting herself above it all. She seems happy. Prince Harry seems happy. This is just an ugly footnote to their lives. We all have them, just not that public, but since most of us don’t marry royalty it just doesn’t seem as bad.
Obligation is what others used to shame people when they don’t get their way. She does not have to invite anyone she does not want to. They all need to get over themselves. Shame of it is, they will continue to yap.
Sooooooooooo true!
I have zero empathy for any family member who sells false stories to the press for money. That being said, I think Meghan is a social climber of sorts, honestly. I think that a lot of people have ripped apart Kate on this site and given Meghan a pass generally speaking.
I think that Meghan is a fantastic networker, who used her skills to get where she is today. Dont we all aspire to climb the social ladder? Why should women be pilloried for wanting more for themselves. I think she engineered the blind date with Harry and good for her! How many middle class women can say they’d turn down the chance to marry a prince?
Networker? Not sure that term applies in any situation regarding dating and marriage. So if your best friend married a senator, you would refer to her as a successful “networker?”
Also released in official pr that Meaghan will not have a maid of honor and her bridal party will be all children.
This is really strange, especially since Harry has a best man. Maybe none of her friends wanted the Pippa treatment.
Any MOH she picked would probably be hounded by the press afterwards, with their private life raked over. So yeah, it would have been the Pippa treatment, maybe even worse.
Having just little kids means they are minors and there are more rules in place to protect their privacy afterwards.
The Taxpayer fund them, uuuhhh that’s why they own them. Jesus, will you all also argue like that about the funeral costs which might come in the next couple of years for the Queen or Prince Phillip? Good God the security costs …. blah blah blah.
If anybody who has a ticket for the Windsor grounds and who does not want to go since the BRF will not offer any food, please, I take that ticket and bring my own sandwiches and a flask of tea. No Problem!
I really look very forward to this wedding, there is enough BS going around: Syria, Jemen, Iran, North Corea, trade war, Trump, Erdogan, Russia and the last year was my personal disaster. I lost two cats to cancer and I had a cancer treatment for a DCIS. So thank you Prince Henry and thank you Meghan Markle for publicly marrying and for letting me watch it on TV. This is something I really look forward to.
I honestly don’t get this taxpayer thing either. I’ve been to London twice and both times over half the things I did had to do with the monarch. I saw the Royal Jewels and the carriage Diana came in when she married Charles, plus many more. Do you think people are going to be interested in it if you don’t have Royals sitting on the throne. There are so much Royal merchandise it’s unbelievable. Do I think it offsets the price of security and whatever the Royals do, I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure getting rid of it completely would hurt the British economy in ways which can’t be easily foreseen. I think Charles probably has the right idea about the monarchy and cutting it down a bit, but we will have to see.
Funny thing is, most of those people who complain about the tax money are not British at all and don’t live in the UK.
Will people be interested in your country without royals? France has the most tourism in the world and we know what they did to their royals.
So yes. People would still come.
Comparing the UK with France is silly.
C Remm, why is that? You said that the British wouldn’t have tourism without the royals and I said the most visited place in the world is France, and they don’t have royals. Could you please explain rather than just saying that my comparison is “silly”? I am really curious!!
First of all Noway said that, not me. You do know, where those countries are, don’t you? As an American you don’t necessarily know the location of other countries apart from the US. Belgium is a nice city. 😀 France has a different climate than the UK, because the UK is further north and the South of France is at the mediterranian sea. It’s like comparing the State of Maine to California?!?!?! France is known for its food, vine, fashion, lifestyle. The UK is known for the monarchy and pop music and the bad weather and not so nice food. That sounds like I would like France and England not so much, but I have never been to France although it is next door, but I have been to England quite often, even lived there for a while.
@Helena Troy. My argument was, that it is silly to compare the UK with France. The original argument about the British monarchy was made by noway, if you care to read.
Maybe you would also like to read the statements of the worldatlas to these two countries:
The UK: With a long and interesting history, as well as rich culture and well developed tourism facilities and infrastructure, the United Kingdom ranks as the 6th most visited country in the world.
London is the most visited city in the United Kingdom, and the Tower of London is the most popular attraction in the entire country.
France: France hosts a variety of places of tourist interest like cities of cultural interest such as Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, the Alpine mountains, ski resorts, beaches, picturesque French villages, spectacular gardens and parks, and more.
Much like France is the most visited of the world’s countries, its capital city of Paris is the most visited city in the world.
C.Remm: You are being deliberately obtuse. There are many reasons to visit France just as there are many reasons to visit Britain.
However, like for like ie places of royal significance eg Palaces, Versailles is the most visited Palace in the world. No sitting royals for over 200yrs.
Actually, in the category of royal palaces, only the Tower of London is listed in the lists of royal palaces and most people don’t remember or realise that it is a Palace.
The Hermitage Palace in Russia, The Forbidden City in China, The Alhambra palace in Spain, Karl Ludwig II’s castles in Bavaria, Schönbrunn Palace in Austria all have more visitors than any British Palace and not sitting royal family to remind the world to visit them.
Out of the frequent polls carried out by various UK tourist boards, royal related items rarely figure on reasons people come to Britain. Only the Tower of London is a consistent entry and most people don’t realise it’s a palace, and only remember it’s secondary role as a prison and keeper of the state jewels.
Just come on tv news that Meghan’s dad will walk her down the aisle.
Kensington Palace has released an official statement about the wedding and it confirms Meghan’s father will be there and he will walk her down the aisle. No mention of her horrible siblings. One detail they confirmed was that Meghan’s mom will ride with her in the car from wherever she is staying the night before the wedding (Windsor Castle?) to the wedding ceremony and that her dad will walk her down the aisle. My guess is that’s a compromise to have both her parents “accompany” her before she gets married to Harry. Also maybe her dad is super shy and didn’t want that attention on him so he declined the car ride unlike Kate’s dad who rode with her to Westminster Abbey from the hotel she stayed in the night before.
If they are acting like this in public- can you imagine what they say in private?!
Did anyone else read the piece about Meghan’s mother meeting with Oprah?
Anyway, I am really looking forward to seeing Meghan with her parents.
There is no source, no phot, and no proof it ever happened. The Daily Fail is where the story originated, so mountain of salt for me on that.
True, true.
A royal reporter on Twitter contacted Oprah’s rep, and her rep said no such meeting ever happened.
her family is trash and i don’t blame her for keeping them at arms length her whole life.
I do feel sorry for her because this does make it look like she comes from a total trash hick family on her fathers side.
It definitely doesn’t match up to her carefully crafted image before and after Harry. Her instagram made her come off as very yuppie, very goopy, a bit snobish. So in that sense, it makes her look a little fake when you find out she is from a family of dumb hicks. But I do believe you can better than whatever you were born into. Something about her just seems fake though.
I don’t know…Maybe she barely knows these people?
Mela, you do know that people only ‘present’ to the world the image or images they wish to show???? How you interpret that is subjective…
The only fake I see are the half siblings who one day sing her praises & the next day talk about how vile she is…As they deposit cheques for their efforts…
Meghan has never commented about these ‘relatives’ on her Instagram…
Yes, I for one am always shocked when people are selective in what they share on social media…
Lobbit, I can’t tell if this is a straight forward comment or sarcasm. Are you really shocked that people choose what they want the outside world to see? I came from a very impoverished disadvantaged background but I am doing very well financially and materially. My past belongs to me and I choose not to showcase it. It’s about privacy not some sort of calculated attempt to pretend to be something I am not.
It was sarcasm, Mimi.
Ok, thanks. Ignore my comment then as I took you at face value.
Meghan grew up in a wealthy suburb in southern california.
Her father worked as a DP on ‘married with children’, the biggest show of the early 90s.
Tom Sr older children are from his first relationship when he was really young and not as well off hence the jealousy from the siblings towards meghan who never had to struggle or want for anything.
They are actually not hicks at all, just behave likes ones and grew up to be that way.
Tom Sr paid for all the children’s college tuitions, not just meghans.
Not his or meghan fault they didn’t become successful as adults.
And of course she barely knows them, they’re more than a decade older than her and she didn’t grow up with them as they were already out of the house by then.
Imagine being so much of a twat that you get uninvited from a ROYAL WEDDING for your half-sister. People be cray.
I laugh because it seems they think they can embarrass the royal family. Have they forgotten about Charles wanting to be Camilla’s tampon?
Meghan’s mother will ride with her in the car to the chapel and her father will walk her down the aisle; this is the latest announcement from the palace.
No wonder why Harry made those comments about Megan at Christmas being happy she has a big, close family now. I thought it was a little rude at the time. But now I get it!
Well, he can control grown adults behavior so I’m not sure what their behavior would have to do with him being invited or not?
Hello Everybody,
I don’t understand some of the comments, like her being fake, or snoby because her instagram is nice looking. She is nice, polite, never been out drunk or in trouble, good at her job, I have seen Suits and I like her a lot in it.
Her mum is all class for keeping so quiet despite all the verbal and public abuse her only child has endured. People keep on saying she is a social climber, but honestly what a nightmare for her since starting with Harry. She was succesfull and accomplished and educated AND worked with charities way before meeting Harry.
And her half siblings….I would be crying non stop if someone went to the press to insult me like that. She has done NOTHING wrong.
Her sister called Meghan’s mum the maid…and they have embarrased her so much. They have zero credibility. One week they say she is nice, the other she isn’t, one week they beg her for aknowledge, the next she is a see u next tuesday. I would have changed my name and address is related to them….
I agree. I’m team Meghan all the way. People are so cruel and mean towards her, especially a very vocal portion of the British public. Their animosity towards her is disgusting.
I think some people call anybody a social climber or gold digger if they fall in love with and marry someone with higher social status or money than they have, no matter how non-poor and non-unknown they actually are themselves. Just because people leap to that conclusion doesn’t make it true.
Some people just still have very rigid ideas about class and have trouble believing that even in the UK, there is more fluidity today than in prior times. Royals actually meet and go to school with and date non-royals now. They aren’t matched up with just cousins any more.
In this case, Harry’s fiancée wasn’t so low on the social class/income scale that she never came in contact with Harry. They met and spent time together and developed a normal relationship. It’s hardly a Cinderella story.
The people who are most important to her (her parents and her fiance) will be at the wedding. That is all that matters. Family business is very difficult when there is so much toxicity involved. However, there are two families that we have in a lifetime: The one you are born into and the one that you choose. Weed out the negative and lead with the positive.
It won’t let me edit by my phone changed can’t to ‘can’….it is to say he can’t*** control what his adult children do.
This is just so awful. Obviously her brother is mentally ill, but that doesn’t make it any less upsetting for her. My family’s the same way girl!! Keep your chin up!!!
Selling stories to rag mags is not mentally ill. It’s scum profiting off of a famous sibling, cashing in on that association, even though they have been estranged for years. He and his sister keep milking this for any way they can come up with to sell another story. He and his sister are conniving trash. He writes the letter so he can sell it and create another story line so that the tabloids will pay him.
I seem to remember that her brother said he wasn’t talking to her sister, and inadvertently admitted he’d not spoken to their father either, but glossed over why that might be, when the engagement was announced? So neither knew a thing about who was invited. Just that they weren’t on that list.
I really feel for her over all this. These people are showing precisely why she’s shut them out. They justify her decision with every action and every statement. Sadly, people determined to hate her will latch onto anything, no matter how patently unfair.
I really want her to do a good job and the marriage to thrive, just because the people opposed to it seem so fricking horrible. Relatives, racists, Fail commenters… I’d love to see a Venn diagram of Trump supporters and Meghan haters. I bet it’d look close to a circle.
None of us know what went truly went down in their family but what blows my mind the most is an assumption it’s racist to criticize the woman-in the history of all mankind (Cain and Abel) siblings fought and jockeyed for parental attention and for love and money. The two dirt bags running to the press need to have a gag order in place going forward. As for saying they’re angry because their father married an African American woman were you there? Sheesh
Nobody ever knows anything really.these are gossip pages. That’s the whole point of gossip.
We can, however, put two and two together. On one side you have father side. They all hate each other. The daughter and mother of Samantha don’t talk to her and they said she is awful. As soon as the relationship went public she started a tell all! The same girl said the father side was racist as hell to Doria and Meghan. The other guy is a violent drunk. They have been insulting Meghan so viciouslly it obviously goes beyond jealousy. On the other side the mother side has been quiet and classy. …Meghan has been an actress for years now and has never been in scandals nor drunk in public or doing anything bad. The only friend that sold her out sounds bitter. Priyanka is saying she is kind and awesome….
None of us know what went truly went down in their family but what blows my mind the most is an assumption it’s racist to criticize the woman-in the history of all mankind (Cain and Abel) siblings fought and jockeyed for parental attention and for love and money. The two dirt bags running to the press need to have a gag order in place going forward. As for saying they’re angry because their father married an African American woman were you there? Sheesh. Of course racism exists and should be eradicated everywhere it is found but really?
You know it’s been admitted they called her mother “the help”. But that’s probably not because racism.
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That is some unapologetically despicable stuff right there. Poor Meghan. I really, really hope the press let her sibs skulk back into their dark and don’t give them fame and a platform from now on. They really don’t deserve anyone’s time or attention.
Her father was ALWAYS going to be invited to the wedding. Her siblings were not. Megan has a great relationship with her parents…both of them, but not her siblings for the reasons so many have expressed. Read her interviews where she has stated multiple times she had a good relationship with her father. Her father is a private person and Megan respects HIS privacy.
I hope her mother walks her down the aisle. . .
They seem to have a solid, loving bond & I think it would send a refreshing message .