Samanatha Markle’s dumb book has been published, and it seems like the only people buying it are reporters on the royal beat. The Daily Mail has a piece about the book which… I won’t be using their summaries. Especially when an outlet like Newsweek got to the sh-t which actually matters, like Samantha fully admitting that she gleefully sold out her half-sister for money, and that Samantha set up the staged paparazzi photos of Thomas Markle.
Samantha on staging the photos of Thomas Markle: “I got a call from someone offering to connect me with a photographer friend by the name of Jeff [Rayner], who promised to discreetly take photographs of my father, putting him in an honest light, because other photographers had been so disparaging, intentionally. I received no money for the deal per my request, and the goal for my father was not money, because he had been turning down $50,000 interviews. It was just allowing the Royals and the world to see him in his proper light, because he was so horribly labeled and photographed. It was like watching vultures feast. The photographer said, ‘Don’t worry, I will take good care of your dad, and nobody will even see.'”
Everyone knew the photos were staged: Samantha Markle, who previously used the surname Grant, said she asked the photographer to stay 100 yards away and be “discreet” but her warning fell on deaf ears. Photographer Jeff Rayner, of agency Coleman-Rayner, and Thomas Markle were filmed on CCTV as they set up a photo shoot at the Omega internet cafe near his home in Rosarito, Mexico. The story broke in U.K. tabloid the Mail on Sunday shortly after Kensington Palace had issued a warning to journalists to respect his privacy.
Samantha on her big plan blowing up in her face: “When I saw some of the photographs, I was delighted, until I saw an article that said he ‘staged photographs.’ I nearly choked, when I saw photographs of the photographer walking 3 feet behind my father, as seen on an Internet Cafe surveillance camera. I was guaranteed that he would not be visible, and I’m sure he knew that the camera was there on the ceiling, so I felt as though I had been baited, and so had my father. I was guaranteed it would be discreet, and then he publicly allowed himself to be seen walking 3 feet behind my father with the long lens camera, and furthermore, bragged about it on his Facebook page the following day. I sent an email to the photographer, letting him know that I was horribly upset by what had occurred, and he said that he would arrange ‘something’ with my father that would make him happy, and that he would ‘fix the situation.’ The damage was done, and the thought of ‘fixing it’ was tragicomedy at best.”
Why she trashed Meghan in paid interviews: Samantha Markle writes that Queen Elizabeth II’s famous “never explain, never complain” approach was easier to adopt for those with privilege. She wrote: “It was a ‘Catch 22’ situation, and as we all had bills to pay, and I am living with disability, I decided that when it was appropriate, and what I had to say seemed to have social utility, why should I not be compensated? The world was wanting to know about so many things, and I refused to lie helpless tied to train tracks bound and gagged. It was appalling to me, to think that anyone would assume that it was OK for media to make millions of dollars on us, while we struggled, and yet the interviewers took our time, and made exponentially more money than we ever could by using us as subjects. I believe in win-win situations, and I was adamant about the fact that, if they were going to make money, then so were we. I did not feel I had to apologize for that, because money allows us to survive. I knew that I could put some of that money towards adaptive equipment I needed in my home, so that I would be safer and be able to navigate my home.”
On one side, Samantha is f–king trash, she’s an idiot, she’s wreckless and a con artist grifter. On the other side, the British media gleefully presented her as some kind of expert on Meghan, paying her to trash Meghan for years with increasingly absurd “exclusives.” They gave her the platform to be this trashy and disgusting, so who do you hate more? Samantha for being a piece of sh-t, or the press for elevating her?
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Wow. I mean, imagine how sad your life has to be for all of this to be your reality. The fact that she changed her name back to Markle is hilarious — all the better to dunk on the half-sister she barely knows, right?
Samantha is a loathsome, repulsive, psychologically damaged parasite. Her bitterness will completely consume her and eat her up from the inside. Long may she live so she can continue to watch her sister succeed and shine. That is all.
And she changed her hair colour to match Meghan’s. Insanity.
And legally her name is still Rasmussen!
I am not bothering to read anymore rubbish from this woman, and everyone should do the same. If she wasn’t so dumb she could have found a smarter way of making money from having a family member in the RF, like some other people do……
A certifiable clown. She might as well join that carnival of experts….
ha ha, ‘so called experts’… and she’s already in it by the looks of it
Such a pathetic creature. What publisher thought anyone other than the tabs would care what this bish has to say.
Mac, she self published.
First she self published. Then she paid a vanity publisher to publish.
This is not made-up correct???.
Samantha did NOT have a publishing deal for this book???
@TBT that is not made up. She submitted her book to them and arranged for them to publish it with an “investment” from her. The publisher, Central Park South Publishing’s site states:
” A hybrid publishing company like Central Park South Publishing produces, which publishes a book through the same channels as a traditional publisher, but gives the author the ability to have input in design, layout and price, ** for a financial investment from the author ** to cover the design and production. The investment brings a much shorter time in the publishing of the book, attention and input to detail and efficiency that comes with a hybrid publisher.”
That’s the exact definition of vanity press
Of course the whole thing was about money. It was always about money. They wouldn’t care about Meghan if she wasn’t married to a Prince.
Honestly if her and Thomas had just shut up and not said a thing, Meghan would have probably helped them out (well maybe Thomas only) and they could have been set up in a nice house with a monthly cheque of some sorts from Meghan.
None of them attended her first wedding, just let that sink in. Funny thing is that had they played it cool, being a Markle would have opened opportunities for them. Didn’t Pippa get media jobs just based on her sisters marriage?
Thomas went to her first wedding in Jamaica.
Yoyo: He did NOT go to that wedding. He is lying. Sam photoshopped a picture of he and Meghan onto a phony background saying it was just before he walked her down the aisle. Which was really a beach. Doria was there, that’s it. All the lies Thomas told around her first wedding were just that: lies. If he’d been there then he would have proof and he would have sold it.
Meghan did help out her dad regularly. In fact according to some reports she used to give him a monthly allowance. But the other daughter wanted in and egged her father on. Samantha is a greedy, disgusting narcissist. She should focus her energy in building a relationship with the children that were taken from her and her own mother had to raise.
Story is he wanted more money once her relationship with Harry become public – he expected and demanded that the RF fund him.
Did Thomas Markle say something along the lines of ‘The Queen owes me” in an interview maybe with Piers Morgan? I seem to remember an incident but cannot recall the details.
@BTB He said: “At this point, they owe me. The royals owe me. Harry owes me, Meghan owes me. What I’ve been through I should be rewarded for.” Not sure what he thinks HE has been through that he didn’t get paid for already by the tabloids.
@BTB – The context seems to be that they owe him because of what *he’s* been through. Like, his argument that the press was making him look bad in the beginning is true. He was given alcohol as a congratulations from some paps and then they painted him as an alcoholic. They followed him around while he bought a toilet, and it was all just mean. He was a victim in the very beginning. He was manipulated onto his current path with the idea that he needed to fix his image for Meghan. Something he thought the Royals would thank him for.
I feel like she was always jealous of Meghan because apparently the father took more care of Meghan when she was a baby and spent more money on her. She always felt like Meghan was inferior to her due to the fact that Meghan is biracial ( their own brother confirmed it). And after all of this, Meghan marrying a prince was the icing on the cake. She manipulated Thomas to turn him against Meghan and he was stupid enough to fall into her trap. If only she could use that energy to rebuilt her own relationship with her kids who don’t want to speak to her.
Her own daughter Ashleigh is closer to Meghan than to herself.
There is 100% a jealousy element involved. She’s mad that Thomas gave Meghan the attention that she never got and that Meghan got a role as a regular on a show while she never did. And add in the fact that Meghan happily married a Prince while she didn’t and it’s definitely a recipe for jealousy
Of course Thomas took care of Meghan financially. Because that’s what Doria fought for. Its widely reported that the reason the divorce took so long is because Thomas hid money.
Sofia, yes, it’s jealousy, the second installment (oh lordy) is apparently called ‘Being in my sister’s shadow’…
Plenty of us of on here have discussed having younger half siblings (or other siblings) who had it much better. Or just toxic parents. It’s okay to admit how much that hurts. Jealousy is a normal human emotion. But having been in that boat myself Samantha’s behavior makes me so uncomfortable. Most people have childhood demons they need to move on from in the path to being functional adults. The only thing unique about Samantha is she hasn’t done that.
@sofia Her daughter Noelle said she hated Meghan since she was a baby, trashed talked her all the time around her and even said that she wished Meghan had never been born. The fact that her own daughter defended her aunt Meghan who she doesn’t even know against her tell me everything I need to know about her. She is like an evil step sister of a fairytale book.
Sadly I’m not surprised. Like I said, I think Samantha is jealous and resentful of the attention and love Meghan got from Thomas and instead of talking to him about it, she takes it out on Meghan
Sofia ,
Exactly. And even then I might say the time to take on her father has passed. She can choose to work on her relationship with him or distance herself from him. But leave Meghan out of it.
Meghan wasn’t going to acknowledge anyone who called she and her mother n**ers while she was growing up.
Everything that Samantha did was some deep seated psycho-social drama that screamed “Daddy! Pick me! I’m the number one daughter, right!? You prefer me over Meghan, right?”
I think both are equally terrible and Samantha is dumb. I’m happy that the photographer duped her.
This is what I came to say. Both. They are both loathsome.
I don’t understand why she is admitting all this in her book now. It doesn’t make anyone feel sorry for her; if anything, it only confirms that she sold out her sister. And for nothing.
She talks about a win-win, omitting Meghan. It was win win but lose for Meghan. She could’ve gotten paid for the interviews, why not, and said nice things about Meghan rather than trashing her. She doesn’t address the content and tone of her interviews in her rationalization, although if she did, she would likely claim she was just being honest. She is poisonous.
Golly Gee, when she said win win, she meant the palace/royals. Not Meghan.
She’s basically giving away the game.
Actually, I don’t know why anyone would buy the book. Nothing. Not. One. Thing. Nothing in those excerpts is new information. It has all been said over and over again. Not worth the paper its written on. Just justifications for being a greedy harpy.
Sunshine: when she said win-win, she meant herself and the tabloids. But your point is valid if you read between the lines and look under the skin of the royal family, it’s a win for them too.
‘It was appalling to me, to think that anyone would assume that it was OK for media to make millions of dollars on us, while we struggled, and yet the interviewers took our time, and made exponentially more money than we ever could by using us as subjects.’
She’s not wrong, but that doesn’t mean she’s right. If you think about it purely in terms of money and ignore the fact that there are actual human beings involved with feelings, one of whom is an infant who is going to grow up without any contact with family members beyond his parents and grandmother, she has a valid point, but both the British media and the Markles are utter trash for how they’ve treated Meghan over the last few years and I hate the fact that this is going to continue for their entire lifetimes no matter how many people call them out for it.
I really doubt Thomas would have been heavily involved in Archie’s life even if he didn’t do what he did.
I think Samantha knew very well she wasn’t going to be in Meghan life no matter what so she took advantage of that and said the most despicable things.
But Thomas to this day I can’t understand his decisions he could have been set for life.
Why does everyone harp about him being a part of Archie’s life??? Is he a loving and involved grandfather to his other grandchildren?
@Petulia, I think he might just be set for life since I believe he was paid handsomely to betray Meghan and continue to do so whenever he’s called into service by the forces who recruited him in the first place. He is a greedy, pathetic man whose love for Meghan was always conditional. By the time she was born he was in a better financial position so he was able to provide for her more than he could the others. Meghan had a successful life despite him, not because of him.
As for Samantha, she is obviously very damaged and needs counseling, lots of it. Her anger at Meghan is misdirected when who she’s really angry at his Thomas Markle, Meghan just makes an easier target because she has no feelings for her. Thomas she desperately wants something emotional from, which she can’t have so she lashes out at Meghan.
To answer the writers question, both.
Thomas was never going to be a part of Archie’s life regardless of how he behaved. Meghan knows her father and what kind of man he is – he is NOT a good role model in any and every sense. Meghan would not want that man to have any influence over her son.
Thomas has money, he’s always had money – he has a good pension and income from his apartment he rents out in a very affluent area of LA (Los Feliz). The financial help from Meghan was nothing more than him exerting control over her, he felt entitled to her giving him money (regardless of whether he needs it) because in his mind it’s payback for all the money he spent on her (alimony, her education etc..). Its something he kept broadcasting – he felt she owed him.
Yeah, in terms of pure money, it makes complete sense what she did. She’s a middle aged woman on disability in Florida (not known for its safety net).
If you weren’t doing great and saw all these filthy rich people making money off of you, and getting a piece of that pie would be as easy as emailing a reporter….
And once you got some money and crossed that line, getting a lot more money was easy: just be a bitch about a relative you don’t like.
While I can sympathize somewhat with the desire to get a cut of all the money people were making off of her, she definitely crossed a line into pure trash-dom. (And I’m not surprised that she lives in Polk County, which is the most Florida part of Florida.)
I disagree @harperc, it doesn’t make sense in “terms of pure money”. To sellout your relative for money in any situation is wrong. Sadly, this is the problem with the world in general.
Who would be making money off Samantha and how? The tabloids dug up Meghan’s past and presented her personal life in a bad light from day one (with initial help from her former bff). Samantha, Tom Sr, and Tom Jr and others jumped in front of the camera to continue to pile on Meghan, not set the record straight or share interesting stories.
“one of whom is an infant who is going to grow up without any contact with family members beyond his parents and grandmother”
Meh, my child is going to grow up the same way. My daughter and Archie are going to be just fine, in fact I would argue they better off without them. Unless you have experience with a toxic family you have no idea how much better off adults and their children will be without that bullsh*t in their lives. With every move H&M make to distance themselves from this my internal dialogue always says “oh girl I get you”
Exactly. If I had any children they would have no relationship with their paternal grandfather because I cut that toxicity and narcissism out of my life some years back and haven’t regretted it for a minute. Believe me their lives would be better for it.
People who haven’t experienced truly toxic family members really struggle to understand quite what it means for you and your decisions. My boyfriend means well when once a year or so he asks if I’ve heard from my dad – what the guy who emailed his brother the day of my grandmother/their mother’s funeral with a totally random update about their latest travel plans (they live on a boat) and no mention of the funeral? That guy? NOPE.
Oh, I do. I completely understand why Meghan and Harry have cut off most of their family members. I just think it’s a shame for Archie that he won’t have the benefit of a loving extended family. But I suppose he was never going to have that, the individuals in question being who and what they are.
When a parent is destructive and/or manipulative and/or narcissistic, it’s always a challenge, even if you’ve built some distance between them and your day to day life. Adding a grandchild to that only makes it more complicated, because on one hand, you know what a mess they made of being a parent to their own children, and you’re carrying the wounds and the dysfunction and the damage and the scars from that no matter how well you coped or how far you’ve escaped them. But on the other hand, they likely installed all the push buttons in you that scream about what they are entitled to … access, deference, etc, and society also encourages family connections regardless of former abuse, and the impulse to go along to get along, or just make nice can be powerful. And it’s easy to hold on to hope, to the possibility that your awful parent had changed and could possibly be a good grandparent … someday, somehow.
So mustering the strength and wherewithal to draw the line and NOT let a dysfunction, destructive parent anywhere near your kid is really, really hard and can take a HUGE toll on the adult child of someone like Thomas … especially when they refuse to back off or dance off the stage of your life … even when it is hands down, no question the right decision for that innocent child.
But if you’ve experienced toxic family members, it’s a hard road that you HAVE to travel if you want the next generation to have any hope of a balanced, functional life.
I don’t care about her getting paid, either — but the problem is she was only paid because she was willing to talk trash. She might have gotten a nominal sum for a positive interview once or twice, but the real money comes for talking trash, and she was more than happy to do that.
Yeah, this is where I am. I can understand the sentiment of “if the british press is making all this money off my sister, and they want to talk to me so they can keep making money, why cant I get a cut too?” But then she talked trash, lied, set up her father with the photographer – and it became unforgiveable. I also always assumed both she and Thomas were getting paid for their interviews (I didnt think they were going on GMB or whatever all the time just for funsies) so I’m not surprised that she’s admitting it.
My guess though is that she was paid ONLY if she talked trash – they didnt want someone on there who said something like “Meghan is a perfectly nice person, I dont really know her but we have no issues with each other.” She knew exactly what she was getting paid to say.
I don’t buy it. Scammy’s bullshit excuse for her actions leaves me cold. Doria was in the same situation as these 2 rats and she chose to ignore the tabloids.
I believe that if the tabloids hadn’t come to them then these 2 pieces of shit would have sought out the tabloids.
Nothing about her sleazy, bottom-feeding excuse is believable. Just a loser trying to rationalize her trash.
Becks, exactly, many people have come forward who either knew Meghan from before, or hadn’t ever met her, to say they were offered money to say, for ex, one male colleague, that he slept with her. And others were to trash talk her, that she’s difficult etc, the narrative they were trying to drive home. Samantha may not be smart, but she knew the narrative they wanted to hear, and having had some deep rooted resentment towards Meghan growing up, and especially now as she married Harry, Samantha was more than happy to comply.
@Jane/Harper, you worded it better than I could have. Because while I agree with everything Kaiser said and obviously think that Samantha is vile trash, I felt like maybe she did have a slightly valid point? There are so many people in the media making tons of money off of the Sussexes, and especially around the time of the wedding, there were so many tv specials, etc. I can kind of see her wondering why she’s getting paid some small amount when the network/newspaper/whatever goes on to make millions. Nothing excuses her behavior, but I guess what I’m saying is that even though it’s gross that that’s the way the game is played, she at least recognized it early on and realized she deserved a cut?
I really, really hope this doesn’t come across as me defending her, and I’m trying to think of a similar example. If the British media hated Kate as much as they did Meghan (obviously impossible but just go with me here for a sec) and they were constantly making a sh!t ton of £ talking about how awful and trashy her family was, I guess maybe I wouldn’t blame her Uncle Gary for thinking, “You know what, if this is going to happen no matter what, I should at least see some of the proceeds from them talking about me and my life.”
God I just reread this and I sound like a terrible person!! Because I don’t think *anyone* should make money solely by abusing another person, but this seems to be how it’s done…I don’t know, I haven’t had caffeine in a while and am just sort of thinking out loud — but please don’t construe this as a defense of any Markle family member who profited from trashing Meghan publicly. At the very least, at the end of it all, it was crystal clear to Meghan who in her life was loyal and trustworthy and who wasn’t. It was an incredibly awful way to have to learn it, but it was effective.
And we can enjoy the fact that Sammy’s definitely not going to get the windfall she’s hoping for from this book because as Kaiser said, the only people buying it are reporters/royal “experts” who want to dissect it. I don’t even think many Meghan haters would actually shell out money for it; they’ll just consume the coverage online. I hope that somewhere down the line we find out how much she actually made from this book. She probably spent more $ promoting it than the book sales will even cover, lol.
My father was a stand up guy. He was a great friend, husband and awesome father. But my mother’s family didn’t like him, and encouraged my mother not to marry him (normal wedding, I wasn’t born until 2 years later) because he came from a predominantly poor Irish neighborhood and he survived polio with after effects. She married him and was married to him for over 40 years until his death this past summer.
Dad was awesome. And he tried to get along with my mother’s family and I had to go to countless afternoons at my grandparents house for visits, occasions, etc. Let me tell you how that went all sorts of sideways.
My grandmother didn’t know how to keep her mouth shut or remember that children have great hearing. Spending years hearing about how awful my father was for not having a “professional” job (he was a truck driver ) or “relocating the family” (we moved 90 miles away after my dad got his professional job lol), I came to the conclusion that they considered ME bad too. Because I was half my father. When I had a choice on whether to go see them or not, I chose not to. I deliberately made other plans that took me out of the area whenever they’d come to us. When my grandparents on my mother’s side passed, I shrugged.
Archie will eventually know what has been said about his parents, especially his mother, from supposedly loving family members. And he, too, will know that half of him comes from his mother, so what does that make him? Forcing your child to have contact with people who share DNA, even when they hate you, is NOT good for children. Ever. Take it from experience.
thank you for sharing this story. This is what I love about Celebitchy–how these public situations allow us to reflect on our own lives, and the insights we draw. I have gotten so much perspective from stories we total strangers have shared about ourselves, and it’s one of the things that shines a light in these dark times.
Well told. I feel it too. My maternal grandmother was plain evil and there was no other way to describe her. She died broken, miserable and alone … through her own doing.
@HeatherC thank you for sharing this — I echo everything that Lanne said. It’s only going to be a matter of years before Archie is able to go online and read all of this garbage, and he’ll see exactly what was done to his parents and by who. It’s sad, and what happened to you is sad as well because your father sounded wonderful, but these people made their choices when they spoke out, so now they’ll have to face the consequences.
@Lorelai I found out years after an aunt died that she didn’t like my mother at all. Growing up, I had no idea. That’s the way it should be. I was close with that aunt (we shared a birthday) and not once did she ever speak disparaging against my mother. Not once.
@Heather that’s great that she knew not to trash a child’s parent, no matter what the circumstances. When I was very little my father had an affair and left my mom, but none of her six siblings ever said a bad word about him in front of me or where I could hear them. They’d still ask me how he was doing, act totally normal and civil if they saw him at an event or whatever, and that was so much better for me as a kid.
Now that I’m older I can only IMAGINE what they must have wanted to say at the time (!!), but they definitely made sure I never heard any of it. I was able to form my own opinions. Your aunt was a good one : )
I experienced in my family too, with my father’s family ganging up on my mother, never accepting her.
I remember clear as day walking home from fourth grade, past my aunt, uncle and cousins’ house. Dear Auntie (dad’s sister) who never gave me the time of day, beckoned me from her front porch as I walked by (her house was on my way home)
She offered me a treat (cookies maybe), pleasantly invited me to sit and chat with her…. and proceeded to trash talk my mother up and down. Basically it was like she was saying “if you agree to see her as **** and treat her as *** and side with us, then you can be on our side and have nice things and spend time with me … won’t that be wonderful!!!” I swear she was just this side of a Disney villain, almost play acting The Queen from the Chronicles of Narnia offering Turkish Delight in exchange for betraying a family member.
Even as a pre-teen I was like “um … oh-… kay… I’ll see you later Auntie” and crept off that porch without ever turning my back on her and running home to tell someone. Because that was wacky! Who DOES that to a child?! Or their In-Laws?
That side of the family really existed in some weird feudal zero-sum alternate universe that was incredibly corrosive to the people in it and destructive to those they considered “enemies” or “outsiders” And I learned to stay FAR FAR away from them. My siblings and I used the phrase “they may sometimes be friendly, but they are never your friends” to remind us to be on our guard around them. It was pretty awful.
On the plus side, it 100% prepared me for the mindset of the us vs them GOP Trump cult. Because same-same and just as lying, malicious and destructive.
THOSE BANGS THOUGH
I was wondering if she changed her hair color from blond to look more like Meghan?
This is the first I’ve seen with brown/black hair.
She dyed it a while ago. And, yes, it was totally to connect her more to Meghan and try to look more like her. She’s naturally a blond.
She looks nothing like Meghan.
@blacksred Oh, I don’t know about that. I am looking at a photo of her at 17 (I was looking up the year of her MS diagnosis), and the resemblance to Meghan is uncanny except that Samantha is blonde.
@Snuffles, she is naturally a brunette.
I doubt she truly knows what her hair color naturally is at this point lol. But that was bad. It was cheap, dollar store box color: flat and dull.
Absolutely unforgivable. A chip off the old narcissist block. She offers nothing of value to anything or anyone.
I wish that disorders like narcissism and sociopathy, and critical thinking and philosophy were taught in schools, so that people could recognise the antics of the tabloid scum; in bracketing innocents like Meghan and her lovely mother with the hideous father and sister they have distorted reality to astonishing levels. Wasn’t it Voltaire who said that those who can be led to believe in absurdities can countenance atrocities? Markle’s book should be pulled as hate speech.
A bit incoherent, I’m afraid, but I’m just so ANGRY.
Thomas is a grandiose, communal narcissist. Samantha is a malignant, grandiose narcissist. The worst combination possible.
This article is triggering in many ways. My older sister suffered from NPD/BPD and made my life a misery from the day I was born. She was obsessively jealous, spiteful and deceitful. and hurt me in countless ways that pretty much destroyed my self esteem until I finally stood up to her in my thirties. The similarities between her and Samantha are staggering, they even look alike. I have to say that I totally understand the frustration, disappointment and anger Meghan must feel and that stopping all contact is the only thing you can do.
We can dislike both. She is trash. The British media is trash. The people that judge Meghan by what her trashy sister says are equally trash. That’s as much attention that I’m going to give that woman because I intend to starve her of her revenue stream.
No wonder Doria calls Meghan, Flower, being the only bright light in the markle family.
I hope a reporter ask Sam about her three children, rumors are, two were sold and the courts took away the third due to abuse.
It’s not said often enough, that when Thomas won the lottery he gave an equal amount to his three children, Meghan’s portion was used to pay for high school, what did the other two use theirs on besides drugs and alcohol.
Just want to clarify, the kids weren’t technically sold. I read that she basically gave up parental rights to the fathers in exchange for a cash pay out.
@Snuffles, please show me the difference 😅😅😆🤣🤣
So… they were sold then.
That says sold in my book. If she can sell her own children, she can also sell out her sister. Especially one she hated and was very jealous of for being a decent and beautiful soul. Everything she is not and never will be.
@BabsOrig…EXACTLY. JFC there’s no end to the horror stories about this woman.
OMG! When I read “sold” I had the worst ideas. As far as giving up custody in exchange for cash, I guess it’s the same logic. The children were better off without her and she was likely to lose custody eventually anyway, so why not get some cash out of it? That’s not exactly mom-of-the-year, but the major difference is that it was probably in the best interest for the children (as opposed to the horrible implications of being “sold.”)
I honestly see no difference. Its like arguing that Joseph’s brothers didn’t sell him because them giving him to the Egyptian traders in exchange for cash was far better than them murdering their own brother; same difference. Vonnie sold her kids for cash or gave them up for cash is no difference whatsoever. Its like arguing the tomato/tomato, potato/potato difference.
I agree that it’s not less awful on her part but “sold” implies human trafficking. So yes it’s a huge difference for the kids that their mom was a jerk not a trafficker.
@bettyrose do you honestly think that if some stranger offered her $10k for those kids she wouldn’t have taken it? Please! So yeah she is no better than a trafficker, if it was all about wanting better for her kids then why take money for them? Especially from their own grandparents.
Sure the goal wasn’t money for her or Thomas. I don’t believe they didn’t get paid for the photos.
I’m almost positive that I read somewhere a while back that Thomas was paid $5,000 for this set of staged photos. Which makes it so much more pathetic imo.
Obviously I wouldn’t endorse him doing it for *any* amount of money, but it wasn’t even as if he sold his daughter out for an amount so high that it would set him up for life.
$5,000 might have sounded like a lot at the time, but it probably kept him in McDonalds and beer for a few months and is long gone. (Yes I know that’s a rude, petty thing to say, but he’s a POS so I don’t feel guilty.)
At least she tells it like it it is and lets the world know who she is. yes horrible selling out your family, being classless but also greed and poverty is a bitch. I am sure that they will stop paying them or asking for their opinion on Meghan. I think this family was broken before the marriage and this was just the icing.
Sr. broke the family when he abandoned his kids by dumping them with his parents for years, and other dark things. That is why he will not speak out against Sam; she knows too much about the dirty bastard. Meghan had nothing to do with the sh*tshow that is the Markle “family.”
EXACTLY! I happen to think that Samantha has some real dirt on Senior (coke use, sex trips to Asia) and he is terrified of crossing her. Why else would he have agreed to participate in the fake photos in the first place?
DogMom –
That sounds about right. With a second family, Thomas probably saw a chance to start over and be the hero dad. That sucks for his older children that he didn’t try to make amends for his treatment of them while taking on this new persona.
What I don’t get is this: Was Samantha’s life otherwise so bad? Did she have opportunities to get an education and pursue her own life interests? She got married and had kids. At what point does her awful father stop being the reason for her issues?
Poor people have moral values too. Betraying someone because of poverty is a bad excuse. I grew up poor, the one thing that we had that can never be taken from us was our moral values…it was not for sale…ever. It drives me crazy when folks use being poor as a reason for bad behavior.
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Oh you missed the claim Scammy said on Meghan’s first marriage: it ended because Meghsn cheated on Trevor with a Suits co-star. Problem – Meghan filed for divorce not Trevor.
Funny, I not sure Sam ever met Trevor.
And how would she know anything like that, only having seen Meghan probably 3 times in 30 years and not even knowing her? Only 2 outfits need to know about this shitty book: Sussex lawyers and the IRS.
She also said that Trevor cheated with Meghan’s best friend. Something I’ve always thought. She was just too concerned about Trevor. And his feelings. I wonder if their relationship played out the way she thought it would. And if she was a guest at his wedding.
Maliksmama…….Ding, ding, ding, ding! I’ve always thought that myself. The Ex-best friend seemed way to invested in poor Trevor and was so quick to talk trash about Meghan and her ‘supposed’ awful treatment of poor Trevor. I’ve always wondered if the friend and Trevor were hooking up while Meghan was in Canada and Meghan found out. Meghan strikes me as the kind of person who has learned to be decisive in her actions when she is positive in the facts of betrayal or put in a position harmful to herself. Her quick exit from her marriage always seemed to indicate to me that she found out she’d been betrayed and —- as they had been together for so long before they married — that it probably wasn’t the first time, but just the last straw!
I heard the only thing she took was her blender and mailed the rings back. Those actions along speak of someone that has been betrayed. I also heard Trevor had a hard time getting over her ( if he ever did)
Who? Rick? LOL. That is a dumb rumour but sadly the BM eats it up.
Ff says the divorce was about Trev being jealous/toxic about Meghan’s success. That interview with her shady ex best friend makes me think something went on between them though. Meghan has been friends with them for yeeeeeaaars. She won’t suddenly drop them over something small as a “hey, maybe you guys should work things out instead”. That woman was shady and it seems like Trev was in the wrong.
Ugh. Her makeover doesn’t make her even slightly more appealing, and her trumplogic only serves to confirm her shit character. I blame the British tabloid press AND Ms Markoe: they wouldn’t have had a story if she’d kept her trap shut, and she’d have had no money without them. The irony is that had she been a loving, supportive sister to Meghan, her loyalty and support would likely have been reciprocated in ways she’ll never know.
I literally didn’t even know — after looking at the photos — that she’d had a “makeover” until I read this comment 😂 Not even kidding. She needs a refund from whoever did it.
Yikes on trikes she’s nuts.
Like this is beyond quite part out loud. She’s literally just telling on herself. That’s it. That’s all. There’s no subtext….I can’t. I just can’t with her.
Whaaat! She sold her children for cash? I mean..wtf! Honestly I am disgusted by these people. No wonder Meghan had to write a letter instead of a phone call or a personal meeting. These people are so low you just can’t discuss anything with them. I am still in shock.
She was charged with drunk driving while they were in the car. The Hales knew the Markles were trash (among other things), and Sam was paid $10K to give up her parental rights. Because of Sr.’s ill treatment and abuse of his first two, look at how they’ve turned out as parents. Absolute garbage. A diseased tree bears rotten fruit.
Thank god Meghan had Doria.
I wonder what happened to Thomas…at some point, he was the type of person who Doria — who seems like an extremely smart person — wanted to marry and start a family with. She saw something good enough in him to have Meghan. But clearly something changed drastically, because to look at him now…good god.
Meghan is so lucky to have Doria as a mom. The rest of that family sounds like a hot mess and she probably wouldn’t have had a chance to become anything she is now if she was raised solely by Markles.
One of her daughters defended Meghan against her and the other is super close to her too. That tell me everything I need to know about Samantha Markle.
And that daughter met Meghan for the first time, when she went with her father to sam’s graduation, there is an awkward picture of Sam and Meghan at the event.
She was called ‘your other daughter’ for a reason.
Samantha’s own mother has also done her level best to state in no uncertain terms that she’s only ever known and heard of nice things about Meghan and is certain Meghan has never done anything to warrant the abuse and trash Samantha has leveled at her.
So Samantha’s own mother and children have nothing but contempt for her and respect for Meghan. But the DM comments at the time accused them, not Sammy, of trying to kiss up to Meghan for a payoff.
Samantha’s mother has also spoken up for Doria and Meghan against Tom Sr. She didn’t say anything we couldn’t see and hear for ourselves but she filled in details about how awful he was as a husband and father to her and their kids. He wasn’t the devoted dad bereaved by abandonment he was painting himself as.
So basically everyone in that family is a decent person except for Scammy, Thomas Junior and Thomas Markle ? Nice to know that she has people who have her back in that family despite all the noise that Scammy and Thomas are doing.
Fun fact: Roslyn and Noel also have restraining orders against Sam. As does Scott Rasmussen, her second ex-husband.
I actually feel sorry for Samantha’s mother…she must be mortified by her daughter’s behavior. You have to be a REAL pos to have your own mother distance herself like that, especially publicly.
The fact that she speaks well of both Meghan and Doria shows she’s a decent person — it really makes me wonder howTF Samantha turned out the way she did.
What’s so strange about what’s been revealed in her book is that Sam has lived on the peripheral of Meghan’s life since she was born. I don’t know if it was intentional on her part or it just happened. She literally isn’t a part of Meghan’s life.
According to the excerpts released by Newsweek, Sam’s just regurgitating what’s been reported in the tabloids. So far, her book hasn’t given any “real” or “unknown” info about Meghan. All it’s done is highlight what a horrible person she is. She actually comes across as Meghan’s stalker.
Sam should’ve sat this one out.
A tiny sliver of shared DNA. That’s literally the only connection she has to Meghan. But narcissists will hold on to that DNA for dear life as their ticket.
Sam was 16 going on 17 when Meghan was born, Doria left when Meghan was 2/3 yrs old.
Sam’s oldest daughter is 3/4 yrs younger than Meghan. So Sam was married with two children when Meghan was growing up, with her mother and grandmother.
Sam was 17 when Meg was born.
I stand corrected: Yes, she was 16 and then in November turned 17.
Thanks for this summary because I am neither going to read her book nor click on any article relating to this in the Fail.
So she was double-crossed by an untrustworthy reporter. That’s karma.
I did kind of laugh over how indignant she was over that – like she was appalled that this photog who accepted money to stage pictures – was less than trustworthy. LOL, you got played Sammy, too bad so sad.
The plan all along was to out Sr. as a posing fraud, ALL to humiliate Meghan. Planned all along. This was only one strategy of many to stall/stop the wedding.
I agree that it was part of the strategy to stop the wedding. They were working in tandem with the Firm from the time they got engaged.
I was curious how well the book was selling, but hadn’t seen anything about it. If someone finds out, can they please share?
Newsweek also published a birther article on Kamala Harris and has gone along with a few anti-Meghan stories. They published info already proven false about the Frogmore reno. Before this, I would have thought of Newsweek as being similar to Time magazine. I wonder who over there is making these decisions.
The royal correspondent for Newsweek used to work for the Sun and wrote the Meghan made Kate cry story. Nuff said.
What? Oh no. That British tabloid toxin is spreading like Covid. We need to get Dr. Fauci on this!
Seriously though, don’t they vet their hires? This is distressing news.
Is Newsweek still owned by The Washington Post or is it 100% owned by the company that owns The Daily Beast?
@BTB, apparently, neither. Looks like WaPo sold it in 2010, it merged with the Daily Beast, then around 2013 Newsweek only was sold to IBT Media, which sounds like a shady group. The original cofounders of IBT are gone; one was indicted on money laundering charges a few years ago, and there’s some possible connection of the company to a controversial evangelical pastor. It looks like Newsweek was spun off as a separate company from IBT a couple of years ago, not sure who owns it, if it’s still IBT. What a mess.
IBT publishes the International Business Times. The only thing I know about that is, whenever I did a search on Meghan in the last year or so, articles from them would come up, usually some RR type clickbait headline based on “what Twitter/social media users are thinking”. In other words, garbage.
I noticed similar crap articles with the Newsweek byline during the last year; I wondered what was going on (thanks @Amy Bee for the explanation about their royal correspondent) but assumed something was, and no longer pay any attention to Newsweek.
@windyriver – Thanks for the update. I know at one time Tina Brown, who founded the Daily Beast, was trying to amalgamate & synergize Newsweek and The Daily Beast. I later read (years ago) the Newsweek was sold by the company who owns The Daily Beast. For some reason, I keep thinking that Barry Diller was the money behind Tina Brown and the start-up of the Daily Beast but I could be wrong.
What?! That’s really a shame. IBT is trash; I was fooled initially by the name, but just like you, WindyRiver, realized quickly after I actually read some of its headlines that it was garbage.
Like Kalana, I always thought of Newsweek in the same category as a magazine like Time, but no more. It’s sad to see another once-respected publication go down the drain like this.
Newsweek has really gone down hill as far as there journalistic integrity is concerned. That’s been evident for several years.
What really surprised me about this whole thing with Sam and Tom Sr and Jr is that anything they had to say found an audience at all in Britain beyond the hype of the wedding.
By and large, they don’t get any traction here in the USA. They might have gotten some attention on some Rupert Murdoch owned outlets and some on TMZ, tabloids and People. But as far as I know, they didn’t get invited to any morning shows. And Trump and Covid took center stage. There’s no relevance to these people at all.
If we want sordid family dramas, we have the Kardashians at the top and they always have something going on. And even they had to associate with Trump to stay in the spotlight in such fraught times.
How are these people ever on prime morning segments in the UK? Please tell me that they’re done there.
This is the first honest interview she’s had. Is she a good person? Hell no. But now at least she admits all those interviews were motivated by cold hard cash. Meghan was their golden ticket and come hell or high water she was going to cash in.
Even after all the shameless vile abuse Meghan and Doria got from her. She is nothing more than a piece of garbage. Nothing more. Karma stares her in the face every day. She can barely move and has to be toileted by a violent, useless criminal lest her bodily function betray her.
Obviously she sees people in terms of how much money she can make off them, even her own kids. She missed her calling as a Rota Rat, maybe that’s why they feel an affinity for her.
Scammy also took a swing at the queen and the Royal Family in this book. She’s ticked the BRF didn’t postponed the wedding because of Bad Dad’s “heart attack”. Sam’s mad that the Windsors and most of the world see the Markles as trailer trash and her biracial half sister is still on top of the world with successes, fame, fortune, a husband and a son despite the attacks. In short Sam is mad white privilege did not work out for her.
Didn’t they show pictures of Markle by the weekend coming from the store with a six pack? This woman is a lying con artist just like her father. And he was the one who chose to act a fool and not come. He was probably too intimidated to show his face.
@Aquarius your last sentence really says it all!!
At least with Samantha, her motives are obvious, but I’ll always wonder why Thomas acted the way he did.
He could have given Meghan away at the wedding, basically stayed right by Doria’s side, kept his mouth shut, and just smiled for photos to make it through the day if he was intimidated (who wouldn’t be! I’d need a ton of Xanax in that situation.). By all accounts, Meghan and Harry had him booked on a flight, someone prepared to come help him settle in and get ready, and his wedding attire all set and waiting for him; all he needed to do was keep calm, show up, and follow Doria’s lead.
Instead, he fakes a heart attack (??) and makes himself a worldwide laughingstock? While completely humiliating his daughter, who he supposedly loved? Their relationship at the time must have still been good enough that she wanted him to be at the wedding in the first place— or she knew he had issues, but at least trusted that he could behave himself for a few days in that high-profile situation.
He could have an ongoing relationship with Meghan (and Harry) even if it wasn’t super-close — she seems to have known to keep him at arm’s length even before the wedding — and he would have at least met Archie. But instead he chose to just…throw it all away? For what? Baffling.
I hate Scammy more. The media is going to do what it does (anything to make money, barf) but family selling out innocent family is appalling and unforgivable!!!
Samantha is a trash person, no doubt about that. I thought though that Scam Sr. sad that he got money for those pictures that Scamgirl arranged? If he got paid, I find it hard to believe that she didn’t get a cut. I always thought they were working in tandem against Meghan.
Sorry to be this person, but reckless, not wreckless.
I’m sorry, but people should stop excusing her behaviour. They’re a scummy family. I have half siblings from both of parents. I would never do this to my siblings, not even you offered me trillions, to denigrate and humiliate your own siblings??? All money ain’t good money.
Samantha is Nothing more than a low life racist bitter white woman who think that Meghan doesn’t deserve the good life that she has . Samantha has never like Meghan and Doria she called doria the maid and the N word Samantha loved being able to attack Meghan she had the world listen to her every word while she gleefully vicious attack Meghan . The fact that after years of her and father insists that they were innocent in the whole photo scandal and now she wants to come clean just to sell her books . She has nothing else to lose that the only reason she admits what she and her father did the money has all dried up she can’t lie about Meghan because she will be sued for defamation by Meghan and Harry so she has to tread lightly. Big surprise she figured out that Trevor and Meghan former best friend might have been carrying on a affair everyone all ready figured out that the best friend was involved with Trevor .
I feel so sorry for Meghan having this parade of Jerry Springer guests for a family.
I must admit that it would make a great episode of Jerry Springer.
Both Harry and Meghan have families that would be right at home on Jerry Springer because let’s face it the Windsors are no better, they just have money.
Most definitely! Had them in mind too when I said it.
My heart is stone for this woman. Just from her family history…gosh she was so awful! Besides her disability, it seems like most of her life circumstances are the result of her not being a decent human.
Meghan may be too nice to sue her because of how broke Sam is, but I want some sort of karma for Sam. Maybe Meghan is holding back and giving her a final chance, I don’t know.
And does this woman realise that people made money off her because she let them? She’s no Meghan. Doria held off completely, and she did get hate and racist headlines but she was certainly not bankable material because she smartly choose to not give them anything.
Simply put, she did it for the money. She can be bought. It is not about, loyalty nor morality, just a business transaction with the only requirement of being legal.
But how legal is it when it contains so many lies? Many of the lies have been court-proven.
Unaware of the publishing details, there is no suit in terms of the publishing so it is legal.
The contents of the book are another matter, however, it is buyer beware. After all misinformation and disinformation is big business.
This woman is trash, but she knew the tabs would eat up any and all trash she spewed about Meghan. She may have been taken by that initial photoshoot, but everything after it has been pure grift. She hates her sister and she’s found an outlet for her venom in the BM. I hope she & Papa Markle are miserable until their dying days because all the money in the world won’t make them happy. They are just horrible human beings.
Scammy not make a lot of money to sell her soul to the British Tabloids. The press used to take daily crazy tweets and write articles with it! When she went to the UK for interviews, her trip and hotel was paid by the tv network, in exchange of her basing. When she got paid, this idiot was so in the hurry to get some dollars that she never really negotiate anything and just took the first offer. She got less than $2000. Also, Scammy is getting a check for disability ( which is not a lot ) she cannot get paid ( big amount ) on the side, or she will lose it. That’s why she could not ask too much. I beleve she was trying to book a long time reality show, or big brother, where she could have been paid millions, and would have gave up a Disability Check. She is still living in her little trailer in FL . As far as the Sperm Donor, I heard he was really bad with money ( I don’t know if he is a gambler or drink) but he was getting help from his daughter , and was always begging for more. I don’t believe he got a lot from all those interviews as well. They are both dumb. I know that the photographer got the biggest chunk of money. I heard like Thomas got less than 30 , 000 but at what price??? You will never see your daughter again, will never get to meet your grandchild, and son in law, and will never step foot in the Palace!!
I can’t fault Sam for wanting to make money after the media began making buckets of money off of her. Frankly, we cheer Meghan and Harry for doing the same. The thing is while the latter use their platform for good, Sam decided to use her media exposure to trash her sister instead of just providing benign tidbits of previously unknown stories.
I certainly can. Sam hates Meghan and has hated her since before she was born. And then abused and bullied the child and continued hating on her. She doesn’t deserve to be making money, being the hateful malignant growth that she is. Not at all.
The media did not make money off of Samantha, they don’t give a d@mn about her. The media makes money off of Meghan and Batgirl decided to jump on the train too, especially when she found out negative comments sell. When Samantha first was interviewed about Meghan, she had nothing bad to say because honestly she doesn’t know Meghan. When she found out dirt sells, it was off to the races. So yeah, she is to be faulted because Samantha brings nothing to the table on her own.
It’s creepy how much Samantha is trying to become her. From the name change to the hair change, she’s SWFing Meghan to the max. And honestly, Samantha does have very pretty (and similar) bone structure. But Meghan radiates peace and kindness, and this toad has hatred coming out of every pore. Ick.
Samantha looks like Tom.
There isn’t a single thing that’s pretty about that heinous woman, not a single thing.
Completely irrelevant comment, but Meghan and Samantha really do look a lot a like.
You’re right, completely irrelevant. I look more like Meghan Samantha does. Samantha WISHES she looked like Meghan after racially and otherwise abusing her all of her life.
Samantha looks just like her male parent. She’s Tom Sr. With more hair. Meghan is the spitting image of Doria, same face shape and everything.
She really doesn’t. At all. Meghan looks a lot like her mom.
@Gaboo I was just looking at a photo of Samantha Grant as a teenager, and the resemblance was uncanny! At some point she got a nose job, though (and maybe some other stuff?), so the likeness isn’t as striking anymore.
A friend of Meghan has responded to Vanity Fair (I know grain of salt) saying Meghan is not bothered by the book and Meghan may put out books herself and in negotiations. Meghan knows she will make tons more money. Meghan’s comment signals that Samantha’s mess is not worth having her lawyers get out of bed to write a cease and desist letter. Scammy probably tossed the adultery grenade to bait Meghan to file a lawsuit.
I know this isn’t necessarily a popular opinion here on CB, but my god do I hope that Meghan does write a book, and holds NOTHING back. It will probably never happen, but a girl can dream!
This broad is evil. I feel for Meghan because my only sister is just as evil as Scamantha. We had beautiful, loving parents who tried for years to get mental health help for her. I waited until my parents had passed away, and then I walked away from the toxic and hateful ‘sister’ who spent her entire life torturing people (including my parents, her children, me, several cousins, her neighbors, etc.). Despite her numerous domestic violence convictions, our brothers continually made excuses for her. I no longer acknowledge having any siblings because I really don’t. I was made to be an outcast because I reported the child abuse and the elder abuse. Some families are hideously toxic, and walking away is the only healthy way to deal with them. I would have cut them off decades sooner, but I had to stay to protect my parents and the kids who were being abused. I now have peace in my life, and my kids and grandkids aren’t exposed to the insanity. Life is good.
Sorry you had to go through all that Rita – I too had an incredibly toxic sister, and my mother was no walk in the park either so I get it. Happy you have found peace and healing.
I think the fact that there is no serialization deal lined up and I did read the daily mail piece – it regurgitates Samantha’s option she has said in Britain before, and the Newsweek summary – is because the book is entirely not fact checked and would absolutely never pass libel laws in the UK. They’re just all reciting “some of” the chapter titles. The papers can’t touch it. Might be a blessing. I wonder if part of H&M’s desire to aggressively pursue their legal rights was to head off things like this.
Yes, becoming private citizens would not only thwart the press, but the Markles as well. The only time Meghan will ever acknowledge Sam’s existence will be with the law, that’s it. This hateful slag is practically screaming for a reaction from Meghan.
USA TODAY-COVERED THE Markle family back in 2019-The newspaper did not hold back in its description of Sammy, Tom Sr., and Tom Jr. The horrible things Sammy is doing now she did it in the past too.
PS-If she has hated Meghan since birth no amount of sisterly bonds will ever satisfy Sammy-In her mind her father did something unthinkable which has caused her grief-She has been blaming Meghan for being born and being racially different which caused embarrassment at the age of 16 or 17. If their father showed any favoritism towards Meghan-then Sammy will forever be hateful towards her half sibling as long as she live.
It’s seems that both Harry and Meghan walked away from their toxic families and it seems that the families don’t take it very well lol.
The best part is knowing that Samantha is glued to her phone, checking her lackluster book sales, reading every article about herself, pouring over every comment, including these. Think about it: she’s self-obsessed with no job and plenty of time on her hands.
Hi Samantha. Consider getting some professional help with your anger issues. Your rage is palpable and comes through in every word you utter.
Yes, you can see the anger and resentment in both she and Jr.’s interviews. That’s Sr.’s abuse and abandonment. That’s where the blame lies, at Sr.’s doorstep, NOT Meghan’s. Watch them being interviewed with the sound off and it’s very plain.
I can stand this … thing
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