Meghan could not invite niece to her wedding

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Ashleigh is Samantha Markle/Grant’s daughter. Samantha lost custody of Ashleigh when Ashleigh was very young, and she was raised by her paternal grandparents. Ashleigh is Meghan's niece.

"In the new Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex shared that while she was not close to her half-sister Samantha Markle, she had a close bond with Samantha’s daughter, Ashleigh Hale. However, things got tricky when it came to the guest list for the couple’s royal wedding in 2018.

“How do we explain that this half-sister isn’t invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister’s daughter is?” said Meghan, 41. “With Ashleigh, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding. I was in the car with H. I had her on speakerphone and we talked her through what guidance we were given and why this assessment was made … and that’s painful.”

“I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from,” Ashleigh said. “To know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship that’s so important to me was impacted in that way … to feel like, because of her it was taken away, has been hard.”

Ashleigh, an immigration attorney, said she and her brother were raised by their paternal grandparents, whom she considers her parents. She had not seen Samantha, 58, since she was 6 until they reconnected in 2007. That was also when Meghan reached out to her niece — a relationship that started with “these long emails back to each other,” Ashleigh recalled. “And then texts and calls. After a while, I think we were talking, on some level, several days a week.”
Meghan said that she believes she and Ashleigh “craved the same thing,” explaining, “I wanted a sister, and she was like a little sister. Ash was put through quite a bit by the media, just by association. And I didn’t want her life to be plagued with all that drama.”

Added Ashleigh of the time when Meghan’s relationship with Harry, 38, became public, “After the news first broke, Samantha pretty quickly began expressing a lot of angry words about Meg towards me. What was communicated to me was maybe some resentment. And it felt like no matter what I said, her perspective didn’t change and seemed to get angrier and bigger, and we stopped talking. Some people you just can’t reason with.”"

people.com/royals/meghan-markle-could-not-invite-niece-royal-wedding-ashleigh-hale-netflix-docuseries/

Why did Ashleigh not live with her mother Samantha growing up?

yes, it is a rubbish source. some person on twitter said .....

larm bells rang for me right back at the time of the wedding.
For someone to have 1 relative at their wedding was big red flag for me.
No siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins. No-one except her mother! To me, at the time I thought she had fallen out with and gone NC with an awful lot of people

The palace have already rebuffed this and let it be known there was no such “guidance “ it was meghans decision and hers alone. They also repeatedly and gently urged her to make up with her father and she refused

i really don’t believe it’s wise to just believe what Meghan and harry say , particularly Meghan as it’s already been shown she gets very confused and says things that are not reality. Like she got married before hand or Archie’s skin colour was questioned when she was pregnant or that they took her passport and effectively held her prisoner

Completely agree ! I really thought Harry and Megan were a huge asset to RF but there was a nagging doubt/ red flag due to lack of family .

Confused 🤣 ... very nice way to say she's a lying toad and shouldn't be believed!

According to Samantha, her paternal grandparents adopted her and raised her and Samantha never saw her because it was better for Ashleigh than using babysitters.

@Fladdermus
That's odd.

Blimey Roussette, somebody somewhere once tweeted it? That's your best source?
I can't help but wonder if Meghan will also claim that she couldn't invite any members of her mother's family because of 'royal guidance'? There are just so many inconsistencies, none of it makes any sense. They even have a very different version of how they met, one from their engagement interview and an updated, different version for Netflix. They must think people are very very stupid.

Wow that's a big reach, adopting and never seeing instead of babysitters ... I think the lying gene is rife in that family!

It really is, they all (Markles) just come across as completely bonkers and expecting everyone to take everything they say as true, despite the very obvious spin. It's almost child like.

I see enough nonsense on these threads quoted as fact, I feel within my rights to mention this! So there!

And of course, anything to do with Jason Knauf would be well hidden wouldn't it...

They also repeatedly and gently urged her to make up with her father and she refused

I'd love a source for that. I've read completely the opposite

Where? Twitter?

I've no idea. I'd like to know if it was Twitter where it was said the Palace repeatedly urged her to make up with her father. Agreed.

Has she seen Ashleigh since? As none of the pictures seemed recent and she didn’t attend the baby shower.

I wonder if the palace also forced her to invite celebrities she’d never met?

These two have a pattern of being unreliable in their reports so it seems wise to view everything they say with a generous dose of scepticism.

But if think about it, why would the palace encourage Meghan to fall out with her father? (You said you'd heard the opposite of being encouraged to make up). Just...why? It makes no sense. The queen appeared to be someone for whom family was very important and by all accounts she was very close to her own father. And Meghan's mum's family too? Do you think there was encouragement to fall out with them? When you see the photo of Charles walking down the steps with Doria on his arm does he look like he's thinking "Damn. What's she doing here, I told Harry to make sure none of her family were invited"?

Meghan seems to be estranged from more members of her own and her husbands families and more friends than anyone else ever. So unlucky.

No, she just popped up in this documentary to be weaponised to try and spin the poor me I was so controlled narrative. Never mentioned before and never to be seen with again I expect! It is odd to be no contact with so many family members, similar to Harry now since meeting her- weird eh.

Meghan’s own emails to Jason Knauf. She talked about how Prince Charles kept suggesting that she fly out to see her father, and complaining that he didn’t understand the context, and how she could not do so.

Sorry don’t believe you could stop Meghan doing anything she wanted to do, if she wanted to invite her she would have been there. Let’s face it there was loads of A list Stars that they really did not know invited. She could easily invited her to come with her Dad.

This. When you think everyone else is the problem, maybe you're the problem.

Samantha Markle seems to be eaten up with bitterness as well as having some important aspects to her character missing. Who has their children adopted and loses contact because it's hard to find childcare in the city where you live? Who even thinks of doing that? And then jeopardises a later relationship with the grown child by refusing to stop criticising another family member? That makes no sense. She is a very troubled woman and I wouldn't believe a word she says.

“How do we explain that this half-sister isn’t invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister’s daughter is?” said Meghan, 41

I doubt she'd have even been called on to "explain", since AFAIK no guest list was issued and the media may well not even have known who Ashleigh was. Even if they did, surely it would have been pretty obvious why Samantha wasn't invited?

Even if the palace had come right out and said, “H’mm, we’d prefer you not to invite your niece ‘, I’d like M a whole lot more of she’d said ‘Tough. She’s family, I love her, she’s coming ‘