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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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RoseWhiteTips · 14/05/2018 19:22

He had a heart attack 6 days ago. We are told...

OriginalGeordie · 14/05/2018 19:24

I think him staging the photos and now using the embarrassment factor as a get out clause was the aim all along. I don’t think he ever was attending the wedding. Said it upthread too.

It’s very bizarre though, there’s something that doesn’t add up about this family.

charlestonchaplin · 14/05/2018 19:26

If it's true he isn't coming, it's a shame. He made an error of judgement but not so great that he should miss his daughter's wedding. People aren't perfect. Not even the British Royal family.

charlestonchaplin · 14/05/2018 19:30

Megan Markle comes from an ordinary family which means dysfunction, annoying and embarrassing relatives are all possibilities. Why make it out to be more than it is?

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MightyMucks · 14/05/2018 19:40

I feel quite sorry for her. I wonder if her Mum is going to give her away?

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user1457017537 · 14/05/2018 19:44

They would have to march on to be more dysfunctional than the Royals

Puzzledandpissedoff · 14/05/2018 21:30

I wonder if her Mum is going to give her away?

Let's hope so - personally I thought that would have been a nice thing to do right from the start

Though some of the non-invited family members have reportedly been seen at Heathrow, so who knows

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MightyMucks · 14/05/2018 21:47

Though some of the non-invited family members have reportedly been seen at Heathrow, so who knows

Apparently they have some presenting gig for a TV station to commentate on the wedding.

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Puzzledandpissedoff · 14/05/2018 21:56

But Mighty, it's the estranged wife of MM's half brother and she's reportedly not even seen the bride for years ... what possible contribution can she make to the commentary? Confused

Yorkshirebetty · 14/05/2018 22:16

MightyMucks I heard that Doria had originally asked to give her daughter away, but was refused permission. It would be a solution, but I don't know if it would be a bit radical? I was refused permission to do the same in a C of E church.

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MightyMucks · 14/05/2018 22:27

puzzled, I dunno. I’m not the producer, I guess the person who is thinks it will equal ratings.

I watched the News at Ten tonight and they reported MM and her Dad were close and it would be upsetting for her he’d refused.

If that’s accurate he should man up and do it rather than being a self indulgent martyr.

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School12345 · 15/05/2018 00:40

How on earth is she close to her dad when she hasn't even introduced him to her fiancé and the wedding is days away?

Bollocks.

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 01:06

it's the estranged wife of MM's half brother and she's reportedly not even seen the bride for years

Grin Oh lol its all just a dysfunctional family free for all! Everyone's trading in.

I now think that her father is being incredibly cruel actually. Embarrassing his daughter in front of the entire world days before her wedding, and now not turning up to give his daughter away, with her having hardly any family (although I think she would have been wise to bring them all into the fold, and should have helped her father out). If my dad did this to me I'd be incredibly hurt.

Now from this recent behaviour I would conclude that he has just been stubbornly refusing to meet PH all along. He's clearly not some anxious tired recluse after all, but shrewed, wiley and mercenary.

The good thing is that all this pre-wedding drama is the worst her family can do. After the wedding they'll have nothing else left to say and can shut up and go away.

School12345 · 15/05/2018 01:15

He's clearly not some anxious tired recluse after all, but shrewed, wiley and mercenary.

Agreed.

The good thing is that all this pre-wedding drama is the worst her family can do. After the wedding they'll have nothing else left to say and can shut up and go away.

Oh no, they'll continue to milk it for as long as there are tabloids with column inches to fill.

Whyarealltheusernamestaken · 15/05/2018 01:17

And yet mumsnet will milk it more, why can’t we leave it alone for the story to die out and let them have their wedding in peace??? What does the gossip gain is individually?

MakeItStopNeville · 15/05/2018 01:55

I genuinely feel a bit sorry for MM. She must feel completely humiliated right now. Her entire closet of skeletons is being played out for the amusement of the world.

I mean, if they were my family, I wouldn’t want much to do with them either. Their behavior has been crazy!

user1457017537 · 15/05/2018 04:44

School12345 if the man was shrewd, wiley and mercenary surely he would be going to the wedding to walk his daughter down the isle. He would then have something to talk about and world attention and the media would be focused on him. Not just a few pap pics of him in a cheap Internet cafe in a border town.

Yorkshirebetty · 15/05/2018 05:52

I did wonder why Harry hasn't met him yet. They've been on holiday a few times since the engagement, I'm surprised a trip to Mexico wasn't managed, especially if Mr Markle and Meghan are close. Who knows, it all seems a pity in the run up to a wedding.

bevelino · 15/05/2018 06:05

I feel sorry for Meghan but this circus could have been avoided if she had taken Harry to meet her father when she decided she wanted him to walk her down the aisle. It is unbelievable that Harry has not even spoken to her father yet.

Yorkshirebetty · 15/05/2018 06:14

I agree. It's a bit much for a shy, reclusive man to meet his son in law and the royal family and walk his daughter down the aisle of the Chapel, (in front of millions) all within a few days. Surely he could have been brought over at Christmas to meet people and put him at his ease?

RoadToRivendell · 15/05/2018 06:16

Gosh, this is a very sad situation by anyone's yardstick.

I feel terribly for both Meghan Markle and her father. I hope he eventually finds some privacy. Seems unlikely.

BertrandRussell · 15/05/2018 06:32

“ I heard that Doria had originally asked to give her daughter away, but was refused permission. It would be a solution, but I don't know if it would be a bit radical? I was refused permission to do the same in a C of E church.”

You dhouldn’t have been- there is precedent for it!

BlueSuffragette · 15/05/2018 06:55

All sounds a bit Jeremy Kyle me. As a grown woman, been married once before, she doesn't need 'giving away'. She should walk down the aisle either on her own or with Harry.

HasAnyoneGotAProblemWithThat · 15/05/2018 07:00

Maybe she wants the support of someone walking down the aisle with her. I hated my walk down the aisle & everyone looking at me. I couldn’t have done it without my dad next to me.

wheezing · 15/05/2018 07:02

I hate the giving away thing but it’s probably necessary in such a wedding.

The whole thing is a disaster. I don’t blame MM’s father and MM can’t help who her relatives are (the half siblings seem horrendous), but it does seem strange doesn’t it now (post MM’s family, post tampon-gate, post Fergie, all of it over the years) that people used to think of the royal family as above them and an institution to look up to unquestionably. Some of the royals, well most of them, still act like they were placed there by God. It just doesn’t work when we know their dirty laundry.