\n<\/aside>\nThe Markles have royally had it.<\/p>\n
Meghan Markle’s estranged half-siblings excoriated the first three episodes of their sister’s bombshell Netflix docuseries, branding the content \u201chorrible\u201d and \u201churtful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking to TalkTV in the wake of the episodes’ release on Thursday, Thomas Markle Jr. called \u201cHarry & Meghan\u201d \u201ca little bit disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Markle Jr. took issue with a comment Prince Harry, 38, made about his wife’s relationship with her father, Thomas Markle Sr.<\/p>\n
In episode three of the series, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex discuss the family drama in the lead-up to their wedding at Windsor Castle in May 2018. In the days before the lavish ceremony, a series of press scandals and a medical emergency led to the final breakdown of Markle’s relationship with her father.<\/p>\nMeghan Markle’s half-sister Samantha Markle spoke out in the wake of the \u201cHarry & Meghan\u201d premiere.<\/figcaption>TMZ \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMarkle Jr. charged the documentary \u201cis so far off on so many different levels.\u201d <\/figcaption>TalkTV<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cIf Meg wasn’t with me, then her dad would still be her dad,\u201d Harry lamented.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had a father before this, and now she doesn’t have a father. And I shouldered that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Markle Jr. said Harry’s comment was \u201chorrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe documentary is so far off on so many different levels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\nPrince Harry admitted to blaming himself for the breakdown of Meghan’s relationship with her father.<\/figcaption>Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cSaying that she doesn’t have a family and she doesn’t have a father, and Harry saying that she has no father now, that’s just ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Markle Jr. said the content of \u201cHarry and Meghan\u201d prompted him to reach out to his own production team, which is currently working on a counter-narrative.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe just basically brushed the entire family under the carpet like we don’t exist, and then lied about not having a family, and lied about she doesn’t have a family that she’s always wanted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve always been here. The documentary is way off. That’s what’s actually prompted me to work with my own production team and coming out in like 2023 our side of a documentary that’s going to shed a lot of light that needs to be shed \u2026 it’s going to tell a whole different story,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the general public in the UK and America knows that now the Markles aren’t bad people, we’re just like a normal family like everybody else. We do exist, and when one person tells lies, this is what happens \u2014 you end up looking ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Markle Jr. was especially miffed by the portrayal of the couple’s fairytale wedding, and took his younger half-sister to task for not including the family.<\/p>\nThomas Markle Sr. dudu a heart attack days before his daughter’s royal wedding.<\/figcaption>BACKGRID \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI mean who doesn’t invite their family to a wedding, especially a royal wedding?\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it’s not like anybody in my family asked her for one nickel or anything other, we were all happy for her when this happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the turn of events showed the true colors of this woman. My general overview is I can’t believe that she was able to be in this position, all by my father’s doing by the way, to be in that position and to know what you’re getting yourself into and then go in there and try and change a 1,000-year-old traditional monarchy to your own liking. Who does that?\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything every woman could ever dream of in their life, you had and you had to go and make waves and accusations and be difficult and overall taking Harry away from his family.\u201d <\/p>\nMeghan discusses her complex family life in the first three episodes of the series.<\/figcaption>Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMarkle’s half-sister Samantha also blasted the series, telling GB News that she hopes Markle Sr., 78, does not watch it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s been through so much \u2014 two heart attacks and a stroke \u2014 and she enabled this, watched it, did nothing about it, and for Harry to say something like that is egregious,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Samantha also dismissed Meghan’s claims that she was advised not to invite Samantha’s estranged daughter, Ashleigh Hale \u2014 whom she described as being \u201clike a sister\u201d \u2014 to her wedding because of the fraught ties within the family.<\/p>\nThe Markles were famously not present at Prince Harry and Meghan’s May 2018 wedding.<\/figcaption>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cAshleigh was lied to and my sister in fact was the one reportedly who told Ashleigh she couldn’t go to the wedding,\u201d Samantha insisted, saying that the decision not to invite Hale was made by Meghan herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I felt like she was manipulating my daughter, and that’s really sad because my daughter seemingly was holding a grudge and feeling like I was the reason she couldn’t come to the wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her appearance in the docuseries, Hale said she was \u201churt on some level\u201d by not being invited, but \u201cunderstood where it was coming from.\u201d<\/p>\nSamantha Markle has long-sought an estranged halfsister.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cTo know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship, that’s so important to me, was impacted in that way. I feel like because of her, it was taken away. It’s been hard,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n
In a separate interview with Australia’s Channel Seven’s \u201cSunrise,\u201d Samantha also took issue with Harry comparing Meghan to his late mother, Princess Diana.<\/p>\n
\u201cDiana was never noted as destroying other people, ignoring people through heart attacks, strokes, pandemics,\u201d she told the network.<\/p>\nHarry and Meghan in 2020.<\/figcaption>EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWhy didn’t they get on a plane and go to my father in the hospital?\u201d she asked, referring to Markle Sr.’s heart attack in the days before the wedding. \u201cNo, the paparazzi would not have hounded them, that’s a cheesy excuse. They were never there, they didn’t want to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The Markles have royally had it. Meghan Markle’s estranged half-siblings excoriated the first three episodes of their sister’s bombshell Netflix docuseries, branding the content \u201chorrible\u201d and \u201churtful.\u201d Speaking to TalkTV in the wake of the episodes’ release on Thursday, Thomas Markle Jr. called \u201cHarry & Meghan\u201d \u201ca little bit disturbing.\u201d Markle Jr. took issue with …<\/p>\n
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