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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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VintageVelvet · 15/05/2018 09:20

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

You really think that all of this is on him? By all accounts he was a very decent and loving father, and put her through private school and college. MM and PH have been together for 2 years apparently, they couldn't have found the time to visit him? Arrange some sort of private meeting?

I dunno, I just find it extremely odd that the man hasn't met his future son in law and all of this has played out at the eleventh hour.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 15/05/2018 09:23

She doesn’t have a maid of honour?

Kate was happy to share the attention with her sister, and Pippa almost stole it.

Meghan is stunningly beautiful, so need not worry about anything like this.

Bearhunter09 · 15/05/2018 09:24

I feel so sorry for mm. not a big fan, but she must be bricking it this close to the wedding them for this to happen. But I have to echo others views. Why wasn’t he over here weeks ago being supported and shown the ropes. Spreading out the meeting the in laws bit, talking him through/practising what was going to happen (real) suit fittings. Getting to know his son in law, getting a bit of protection. Supporting his daughter. He strikes me as s weak man easily manipulated who hasn’t the backbone to do what any decent dad would do, walk over hot coals to make his daughter happy. My money is on Charles. I don’t think mum would be allowed to give her daughter away in cofe high church. I suspect if she was that would have been the plan from the start (or was it the Markle plan from the start to try and force it by dad “dropping out” with a couple of days to go????). One things for sure he’ll now become the bad dad in British media eyes.

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 09:30

Oh Trevor MacDonald would be great!
Archbishop Desmond Tutu? Anglican as wellSmile

Mumto2two · 15/05/2018 09:32

So many things odd about this saga..the fact that there are numerous family members and ex-friends, who have such derisory things to say about this young lady, hardly sits well with her sweet innocent humanitarian image!
And I also thought that about the Dad, 2 years courting, and they haven’t met him once?? Family en masse turning up to the big day..but none of them invited bar one, her mother?
And the bridesmaid excuse is very odd, and probably says more than anything else.
No smoke without fire....we’ll be regurgitating all this in a couple of years time, when the scales of infatuation fall away Wink

wheezing · 15/05/2018 09:57

I feel really awful for her that she can’t make any kind of angry statement about the behaviour of that awful sister. I can’t believe she’s now in the UK doing the rounds on trashy TV.
I know you can’t believe her but she (the sister) claims it was her idea? WHY would the father listen to her? A woman who hates MM and is cashing in on their history and clearly hadn’t shown any kind of good judgement thus far.

But I agree with the PP that made the point that he was already supposed to be here and was late even before this all broke.. was he never planning on coming?

BertrandRussell · 15/05/2018 10:01

Presumably there would have been 79 wedding rehearsals already?

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 10:31

Yes I suppose there would have been. So there's no way he was going to turn up the week before the nuptials.

He was never going to come.

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MightyMucks · 15/05/2018 10:32

I really cannot see there being any problem with her Mum giving her away. The service is being taken by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and he is very broad minded. His diocese has openly gay priests in long term relationships so I really can’t see him making bones over her Mum giving her away. Alternatively, she could just be not given away at all.

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MightyMucks · 15/05/2018 10:35

Diana and Charles didn’t rehearse until 2 days before the wedding. There’s no point doing it until all the TV gear is in place anyway, so there may well have been no rehearsals.

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wheezing · 15/05/2018 10:36

I really cannot see there being any problem with her Mum giving her away. The service is being taken by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and he is very broad minded. His diocese has openly gay priests in long term relationships so I really can’t see him making bones over her Mum giving her away. Alternatively, she could just be not given away at all.

And then what a brilliant precedent that would set!

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MightyMucks · 15/05/2018 10:37

wheezing, her Dad said this morning that he blamed the heart attack on her sister’s behaviour.

I suspect that her sister orchestrated the expose on him too. I reckon she talked him into it then double bluffed him by selling the expose. Awful woman.

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Rinoachicken · 15/05/2018 10:44

Perhaps the better behaved friends and relatives HAVE been invited and are coming but just aren’t selling out to the media shouting about it??!

RosaGertrudeJekyll · 15/05/2018 11:10

I think its disgraceful that there is any issue at all over her DM giving her away ! Other than MM or her mums personal preferences...as to whether its suitable for a mum to give her own dd away Hmm

RosaGertrudeJekyll · 15/05/2018 11:15

AS For PR - its not a disaster at all - even Republicans have been drawn in gossiping about the R wedding Grin what a delicious twist in this fairy tale story!

he chose to marry someone with a dysfunctional family

As she did too!

Sweetpea55 · 15/05/2018 11:19

So he says he wont go because he doesn't want to embarrass MM and the RF,,,,but hasn't he done exactly that by not going.?
I think she's going to be a bit of a loose cannon tbh , she sure likes to voice her opinions,,,but I cant help feel sorry for the poor mare

School12345 · 15/05/2018 11:27

The bridesmaid thing was really odd and entirely predictable at the same time. Meghan can't choose between her in incredibly close-knit circle of wonderful amazing empowered life-affirming friends so she won't be having a maid of honour at all.

Really? How convenient.

Either she has no friends or just no "suitable" friends. My guess is she sees this as a total reinvention as wants nobody from her past weighing her down. The mother can stay, but that's it.

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 11:39

The Mulroney woman was supposedly her BFF with bells on. Supposedly she and PH stayed at their house together when dating I thought her daughter was meant to be a flower girl?

BertrandRussell · 15/05/2018 11:44

“she sure likes to voice her opinions,”

Does she?What are they?

HadronCollider · 15/05/2018 11:50

Bertrand you didn't hear the 'Women need to be empowered to use their voices because they have them already' metoo speech?

Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/05/2018 11:53

They are KP's team, not "hers", and I doubt Harry will sack them, because he knows this isn't their fault

I can't possibly know what Harry thinks personally, but let's not forget the many staff who've also been blameless, but still lost their jobs if there's a chance of it making the royals look better

When a scapegoat's needed, you can guarantee it won't be the family who take the hit

BertrandRussell · 15/05/2018 11:53

Oh yes, I did. Not somuch an opinion- more a statement of fact, surely? And anyway one in 6 months hardly qualifies as “she sure likes to voice her opinions,” does it? Even for a woman?

AmericanPastoral · 15/05/2018 11:58

*ElliePhillips put it perfectly:

"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) "

How on earth can she be close to her father if the situation has been this badly handled? When was the last time she saw him? The whole situation has been incredibly badly managed- by the Royal Family and Meghan Markle.

Bearhunter09 · 15/05/2018 11:59

Just looked at cofe website and it specifically mentions the mum giving the bride away. So it looks ok from that point of view.

TyrannosaurusBex · 15/05/2018 12:00

Perhaps she could capitalise on her profession any having her screen dad from Suits give her away. Or the bloke who plays Louis. He'd do her proud. Grin

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