Still at odds After years of public drama, Samantha MarkleA lawsuit was filed against the half-sister Meghan Markle, claiming that the Duchess lied during her 2021 tellall interview with her husband Prince Harry.
The sisters’ tumultuous relationship originally made headlines ahead of Meghan and Harry’s wedding in May 2018. Two years later, they announced that they were quitting their roles as working royals. They confirmed their decision not to resign from their senior positions in February 2021.
One month later, Harry and Meghan, who moved to California after their royal exit, spoke about their major life change in a CBS sit-down. During the interview, the California native said, “I grieve a lot. I mean, I’ve lost my father. I lost a baby. My name was almost lost. I mean, there’s the loss of identity.”
Samantha, who has been vocal about Meghan during her royal tenure, claimed that her younger sibling wasn’t being truthful when she spoke of her past and their father in her March 2022 lawsuit. Thomas Markle. Court documents obtained from Us WeeklyThe time was the Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister author alleged that Meghan made up stories about growing up in “virtual poverty.”
Meghan, who has a son Archie and a daughter Lili with her husband, said during her CBS interview that she was never close to Samantha. “I grew up as an only child, which everyone who grew up around me knows, and I wished I had siblings. I would have loved to have had siblings,” she said in March 2021, noting that she had not seen her half-sister in “at least 18, 19 years.”
The Suits alum also questioned why Samantha changed her last name, saying, “[She] changed her last name back to Markle in her early 50s … only when I started dating Harry. So, I think that says enough.”
Samantha was charged with the offense in her March 2022 file Bench writer of lying about her and their father so they “could not interfere with or contradict the false narrative and fairytale life story [she] concocted.”
Thomas, for his part, previously addressed Meghan’s comments about their rift, which grew more strained after he staged paparazzi photos and subsequently missed Meghan’s 2018 nuptials. He explained. Good Morning Britain in 2021, “She’s pretty much ghosted all of her family, on her mother’s side and my side. She didn’t really have anyone to call. She would’ve had us if she’d kept us. We all make mistakes.”
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Diana Cooper reports
