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Meghan Markle says palace told her not to invite niece to royal wedding

Meghan Markle
  • The 2018 royal wedding guest list was hard.
  • Meghan, 41.The Duchess of Sussex said Ashleigh was advised not to attend her wedding. “
  • “Ashleigh, an immigration attorney, says her paternal grandparents reared her and her brother.

Meghan Markle discusses a “difficult” chat she had with her niece before her wedding.

In the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex said she wasn’t close to her half-sister Samantha Markle but was close with her daughter Ashleigh Hale. The 2018 royal wedding guest list was hard.

“How do we explain that this half-daughter sister’s is invited to the wedding?” Meghan, 41.

The Duchess of Sussex said Ashleigh was advised not to attend her wedding. “With H. I put her on speakerphone and explained the guidance and assessment… it hurt.”

Ashleigh: “I was hurt, but I got it.” “Knowing it was because of my biological mother that a connection so vital to me was harmed has been painful.”

Ashleigh, an immigration attorney, says her paternal grandparents reared her and her brother. Since Samantha was 6, she hadn’t seen her until 2007.

Ashleigh noted that Meghan reached out to her niece at the same time. “Texts and calls. We talked numerous times a week after a while.”

They travelled to New Orleans together.

Ashleigh: “We strolled about, listened to live music, ate too much, and drank too much.” “We were alone, which was special. She plays many roles for me. Sister element? Motherly. Best friend She’s…everything.”

Meghan believes she and Ashleigh “craved the same thing”

“By association, the media mistreated Ash. I didn’t want conflict in her life “Suits alum.

Ashleigh said, “After Meghan’s relationship with Harry, 38, became public, Samantha yelled at me about Meg.”

“I could feel anger,” she said. “No matter what I said, she didn’t change her mind. Instead, she got mad and we stopped talking. Some people are irreconcilable.”
Samantha’s book from 2021 was called The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister. Before Meghan and Harry’s wedding, she set up the staged paparazzi photos of Thomas Markle, which he later lied to Harry about.

Meghan said on the show Harry & Meghan that the British media wanted “My mom’s side of the family may be involved in all this trouble. My nice, quiet mum appears. My other family is not like this.”

Meghan: “I hadn’t seen my half-sister in over ten years, but she seemed to be everywhere.” “No middle name. No one knows when your birthday is. You’re telling them that you raised me and gave me the name Princess Pushy, right?”

On the show, Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, said that Thomas’s other kids were 17 years older than Meghan. She said, “Meg and I left when she was 2.”

Meghan doesn’t remember meeting Samantha when she was a child at her father’s house. “I last saw her when I was in my early 20s. We hadn’t gone to war. We were too far away. Wishing for a sister.”

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