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Irony alert: Meghan Markle’s Dad

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MightyMucks · 13/05/2018 05:34

Sorry, found this hilarious. Meghan Markle’s Dad has staged some pics with the paparizzo to send out a message re his DDs wedding (ie he is going).

This is being reported by the press in a vv ‘tut tut aren’t her family awful’ manner.

Am I alone in finding this hilariously hypocritical? I remember St Diana getting caught in a car with Richard Kay from the Daily Mail and she wrote a book secretly with Daily Express journalist Andrew Morton.

Plus who had those pics front page the day they were taken? That’s right. The Daily Mail!

I am not a Meghan fan at all. But I got up this morning and looked at the papers and felt like I had gone done a rabbit hole when I saw her Das being slated for this supposedly ‘unroyal’ behaviour which is actually the most royal thing in the world ever.

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MightyMucks · 15/05/2018 18:01

B) Flying him over to London and sticking him in a comfortable hotel several weeks before the wedding (she was on Suits - she can afford it) "

That’s said with the benefit of hindsight. Remember until a few days ago when these photos surfaced, there was absolutely nothing to suggest he was having difficulty coping. And he’s a late middle aged man with a professional career behind him. Plus as far as we know his relationships with MM and her Mum are cordial.

So really, this has been unpredictable and unexpected.

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HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 18:03

But why would the RF object anyway seeing as presidence has already been set?

Yorkshirebetty · 15/05/2018 18:04

What a mess. I know that Mr Markle was bankrupt and tempted by the money, but her mum was bankrupt too and (so far!) hasn't been tempted. It's a shame for Meghan, probably very stressful and embarrassing.

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 18:05

Ahhhh but the thought has just occurred that Queen Victoria was the head of the church and so invested with authority to do it maybe? or just do as she bloody well wanted to

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 18:10

She had the funds to help her father out financially. He's clearly struggling.

I must say I do feel sorry for her and think he's awful for embarrassing her like this, but I do question why he's living the way he is when it seems she has been living quite an expensive lifestyle up till now.

No excuse for his behaviour ultimately though. It's his daughter.

ikeepaforkinmypurse · 15/05/2018 18:11

the whole thing is a joke, and the trash press is running for it and making things up as they go along.

Did anyone really believe for a second THIS photo was real?! If people are offended because he was "dishonest" Hmm they really need to get a grip.

The DM ran an article awhile ago with a fake Kate shopping in Waitrose. It was still more realistic. It would be a real shame if that nonsense, and a funny one too, would genuinely prevent the dad from attending.

Irony alert: Meghan Markle’s Dad
GladAllOver · 15/05/2018 18:14

If it hadn't been for the invasive press, the problems of the mother and father wouldn't have been made so much of. The father would just have arrived at the church with his daughter and given her away.

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MightyMucks · 15/05/2018 18:31

She had the funds to help her father out financially.

I’m not sure she really did. From what I have seen she earned a salary more on a par with doctors than with captains of industry. Enough to help your parents out if they need help with basics like food and electric, but probably not enough to provide them with 24 hr security or a house in a gated community.

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PortiaCastis · 15/05/2018 18:34

Who knows for sure what's in anyone's bank account and what the bottom feeders have made up

WowLookAtYou · 15/05/2018 18:52

Did anyone really believe for a second THIS photo was real?!

Of course not. The computer screen is angled in a way that it just wouldn't naturally be, unless someone wanted everyone to see what was on it.

AmericanPastoral · 15/05/2018 21:58

The journalist Susie Boniface, aka Fleet Street Fox, wrote a very good, informative article on the whole debacle.

ElliePhillips · 15/05/2018 23:24

That’s said with the benefit of hindsight. Remember until a few days ago when these photos surfaced, there was absolutely nothing to suggest he was having difficulty coping. And he’s a late middle aged man with a professional career behind him. Plus as far as we know his relationships with MM and her Mum are cordial.

So really, this has been unpredictable and unexpected

That is a good point MightyMucks I hadn't thought of it that way. I was saying what she should have done with the benefit of the knowledge of how it has gone badly wrong. She obviously never expected her father to fuck up like this.

Shadow666 · 16/05/2018 04:33

To be fair he had a heart attack. I wouldn’t really describe a heart attack as fucking up.

Anyway, he’s not going now.

It’s 2018, I don’t understand why the bride and groom don’t just walk down the aisle together as equals.

slowlywiltingpetal · 16/05/2018 04:47

From reading a thread on here yesterday, there was insinuations that the heart attack, was possibly a panic attack. Others say it's a ploy to avoid going. Who knows but Mr. M?

He had a friend who was in a position to take photos, I think I read on here that there was a falling out, that's how this came to light. I think possibly her Dad is learning that money is the root of all evil, friends and family alike will sell him and his daughter no matter the cost.

Shadow666 · 16/05/2018 04:58

I must admit I was cynical about the heart attack, but it seems he will undergo surgery today.

Whatever is going on, I don’t think you can fake major heart surgery to get out of a wedding.

slowlywiltingpetal · 16/05/2018 05:08

No one really knows but her Dad what the surgery is for. You could go in for surgery and call it what you want.

If it is heart surgery, which is a big thing, you'd have to wonder how that impacts MM.

It could be PR to handle the fallout from the weekend. It could be true. I doubt his Dr's will say, yes Mr. M is having such a procedure. Even if they did, who knows if it's the truth. If it is it's the last thing any bride would want.

The cynical part of me thinks it's convenient timing, given what's happened. Another part of me wishes him all the best regardless.

Did anyone question Kate's Dad, whether he was happy having such a big part in a very big day. He was likely very scared, both times. You never really hear about how the Middleton's have coped with the pressure and scrutiny. That being said I don't believe much has been said about MM's Mother. (Or her side of the family.)

Shadow666 · 16/05/2018 05:27

The Middleton’s work in party planning. It’s their “thing”. They host big dos all the time. They run in these social circles and seem to be very comfortable socializing in them.

The Markles are very different. It’s a very different world for them. It’s hard to go from being a quiet, private person to being on the world stage. It’s a lot of pressure.

The media are all over him. They’ll be speaking to people at the hospital. If he’s lying, it will come out. So, I don’t think he is.

lanbury · 16/05/2018 19:01

I thought the Middleton's "party planning" was more like paper plates and hats for kids birthdays and the like? Not sure they run banquets at stately homes as a line of business? That aside, I guess the Middletons are a tight knit family unit and don't have the infighting and conflict that poor Meghan has to contend with. Personally I thought Kate's brother was the family star at her wedding. He was only young and how he read that piece as part of the ceremony I don't know. Her family really rallied for her. Meghan doesnt seem to be so lucky. I am not sure the Royals have put in the ground work to make this gig run smoothly. Who knows what the deal is with the Dad. Terrible timing and very sad or the mother of all porkies to get out of it!!

happyhillock · 04/01/2019 13:14

I don't think meghan's family are being awful about Meghan, nobody know's you better than your own family, my opinion is Meghan has married into a very rich family and she's ashamed of her own, her father looks like he doesn't have much, why hasn't she helped him out she's was earning big money acting, i don't understand why Harry hasn't met him, strange

Blessingsdragon1 · 04/01/2019 13:18

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Blessingsdragon1 · 04/01/2019 13:19

The Daily Fail running short of people really hate MM stories?

joanmcc · 04/01/2019 13:22

A: Zombie thread.

B: In the Windsor-Markle marriage, I don't think it's the Markle family who are the most dysfunctional, not by a long shot.

Pachyderm1 · 04/01/2019 13:23

nobody know's you better than your own family

I imagine that some of the many people who post on MN about their own toxic, awful families would disagree.

PositivelyPERF · 04/01/2019 13:40

nobody know's you better than your own family

That can work both ways. She probably knows how horrible her family members are.

Mousewithascarf · 04/01/2019 13:40

nobody knows you better than your own family . Can’t agree here.

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