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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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BlueSuffragette · 15/05/2018 07:02

If she wants support for walking down the aisle she should walk with Harry or her mum.

lanbury · 15/05/2018 07:12

Poor woman, what a total nightmare. Perhaps they should just elope

youarenotkiddingme · 15/05/2018 07:26

Their situation - poor family with interesting relationships joining a well off family isn't unusual.
It's just it's the RF and a mixed face family. So I think where people haven't really shown much interest in the family backgrounds (let's face it - RF aren't the same as they were decades ago) they've engineered situations to create stories and create this drama about the difference in families.

I laughed the other day when a documentary cane on about Harry and it said he went off the rails as a late teen/early 20's - because he went it and got drunk, behaved stupidly when drunk and tried drugs.

Sounds fairly 'normal' to me for lots and lots of teens who need to let loose and experience life before settling down.

What we see and read isn't the truth - I tend to think the truth is exactly the opposite as reported!

eloisesparkle · 15/05/2018 07:37

If Meghan gets snide remarks from her future inlaws she just has to mention a few words:
Tampaxgate by C and C ( or tampon - can't remember which).
Uncle Gary.
Toe sucking.
Jeffrey Epstein.

People in glass houses etc

Butterymuffin · 15/05/2018 07:37

They will have to let her mum give her away now. I would bet there are discussions going on about it. Should have been the case from the start.

HasAnyoneGotAProblemWithThat · 15/05/2018 07:40

Where has it been said she’s had snide Remarks from the RF.

I didn’t think MM was from a poor family. She’s privately educated & went to an excellent university & she’s a well paid actress. One of her uncles is well connected. Her father is a recluse now but hasn’t always been. That’s just for starters. She may not be as wealthy as the RF but she’s not poor!

TheGlitterFairy · 15/05/2018 07:43

Goodness - nightmare for her! Am not a massive MM fan but this would be horrible. Imagine not wanting to show everyone up but doing just that by saying it. Reckon her Mum will step up to the plate and walk her down the aisle.

Costacoffeeplease · 15/05/2018 07:52

Ridiculous to have this all played out on the front pages, MM should be contacting him privately, or not, whatever, I couldn’t care less, but ‘pleading’ headlines. I bet the queen’s having forty thousand fits

ElliePhillips · 15/05/2018 08:03

Her father is clearly very troubled but she could have helped things by:

A) Introducing him to Harry AGES ago (who marries someone without meeting their parents?!)

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)

I felt sorry for her at first but now I suspect she got so into her new life and impending royal wedding that she missed the mark on managing this tricky situation.

BertrandRussell · 15/05/2018 08:06

First thing she should do is sack her PR team.

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 08:06

one of her uncles is well connected

Perhaps she could have asked him then, seeing as her father is difficult? I believe another uncle is a bishop? Neither of them are taking pictures of themselves in return for a fee. I still don't fully understand why she has not (as far as anyone knows) invited the rational, well heeled members of her family. It means almost all the media focus is on her father and mother. I think she has made a bit of a rod for her own back in not being more inclusive. Ok, so you have a drunk in the family (her half bruv). But so? I have one too. Many people do. I wouldn't exclude him even though he talks rubbish when he's sloshed.

It's a bitthat her two nephews are here but not invited. It looks even more dysfunctional than if she had just invited them. Then as I said where are the black members of her family? Well maybe some of them are coming still.

A sad situation all round

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 08:09

Does she have a PR team? I know she has personal secretary now but I thought there was one PR team at Bucks and another at Kensington?

mummmy2017 · 15/05/2018 08:13

Anyone else think it's weird he still wasn't on a plane over?
Less than a week to the wedding you would have thought the small amount of family would have wanted private time with the daughter...
I don't think he was ever coming... but I do think he made some cash out of it.

KimchiLaLa · 15/05/2018 08:23

First thing she should do is sack her PR team.

Says someone who clearly doesn't know PR! They are KP's team, not "hers", and I doubt Harry will sack them, because he knows this isn't their fault - he chose to marry someone with a dysfunctional family. Not her fault either, but PR "crises" happen, and this is one that team is having to manage.

BertrandRussell · 15/05/2018 08:27

Well, it’s a PR disaster- someone needs sacking.

User777 · 15/05/2018 08:27

I don’t understand the problem with what her dad did. None of the pictures were even embarrassing. They where all rather cute to me. I think the reason people have problems is that people seem to think that being pictured is an ‘invasion of privacy’. For some yes however many people love being in-front of the camera. Megan always had a smile on her face whenever the papz where around her house.

VintageVelvet · 15/05/2018 08:55

He wasn't ever coming to the wedding. Yesterday he pulled out with different reports saying he didn't want to embarrass his daughter and RF further, and others saying he had suffered a heart attack..

Now headlines say MM and PH are devastated. Please, they have had months to visit this man, or at least fly him over privately weeks before the wedding.. Surely practicalities would need him there several weeks earlier anyway, not to mention meeting future son-in-law etc.

And if there was a heart attack then the man couldn't fly anyway, and wouldn't his daughter want to be by his side?

None of it adds up, and I don't think the gutter press are making all of it up.

RoadToRivendell · 15/05/2018 08:56

I don’t understand the problem with what her dad did.

Really? You don't see the problem with him trading on his daughter's fame?

I can't even imagine how upset she must be, but I think this guy is just spinning his wheels and trying to figure out how to gain some measure of control over his own life back.

I can't believe he did something so stupid, but I feel terribly sorry for him. What a shit show.

CampariSpritz · 15/05/2018 08:58

I do feel very sorry for MM. It is definitely not what any bride would want a few days before the wedding. I wish they could borrow Michael Middleton for the day: he is pretty much perfect father of the bride fodder.

GladAllOver · 15/05/2018 09:01

The gutter press turned up and offered him lots of money. He was a fool to take it, yes. But we know who are really responsible.

RoadToRivendell · 15/05/2018 09:04

Yes. I wish we could have a more dignified press, but it ain't happening.

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 09:08

I don't feel sorry for him at all. He has publicly humiliated his own daughter. I don't think he was ever going to come to the wedding. I don't think he wanted to meet PH, or ever intended to.

If you can't get out of your comfort zone and stick your finger out for your own daughter when the world is watching, and you know there's not much family standing with her, on her side of the church, then honestly what is the point of being called dad? (but you can hire a photographer and stage pics)

Having said that, hasn't she also turned down the opportunity for a maid of honour? (can't remember why) So it seems she doesn't need the support anyway.

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 09:12

That's a nice idea Campari
Aside from her own mother I think Obama would be nice.
or Piers Morgan -didn't she have a great lunch date with him? He'd be chuffed.

CampariSpritz · 15/05/2018 09:17

Agreed Hadron, Obama would be even better (and more appropriate). Trever MacDonald at a push of BO not available at short notice?

CampariSpritz · 15/05/2018 09:18

sorry ‘if BO not available’.

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