Markle v Markle

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Has anyone posted about this hearing to dismiss yesterday?

Ellie Hall of Buzzfeed was tweeting. twitter.com/ellievhall/status/1625944386382008346

My opinion? Samantha is an ass who purposely humiliated Meghan, every chance she got. I hope they throw out the case and reprimand Samantha+ her attorney for being grifters and wasting the court's time.

Didn’t Samantha sit out in front of Buckingham Palace in her wheelchair trying to get in as a publicity stunt? No, I’m not sure she could be much worse actually.

In fact, I think SM was the one that set up Thomas with the paparazzi for the fake photos. It seemed like she was pulling his strings before the wedding, when he was probably uncomfortable and not sure how to behave. If that’s correct, she is more to blame than anyone for the rift.

I feel very sorry for him. I couldn’t throw my dad away for making the mistakes that Thomas made.

That was awful.

While I understand Samantha & their father feel hurt by how Meghan has treated them this really isn’t the way to behave.

I do believe Meghan when she says she and Samantha didn’t have much of a relationship. I don’t think Samantha is really hurt at all. It’s just attention seeking and trying to make $ because her sister married into the RF.

I think Thomas is hurt and just wants his daughter back, to meet his grandkids.

Samantha has done Meghan a big favour. She made Meghan look good for longer than if she hadn't burst her way into the media. There were legit doubts about Meghan's narcissism and fibbing from the beginning but Samantha introduced the possibility that we may all have been judging her too harshly and bought her time. She could have used it to her advantage if it hadn't been true. Unfortunately, the Markles do not have the polished skills of actors but they have been right.

Meghan did not look after her aging dad who is as in ill-health, he was basically thrown to the wolves (media) taken advantage of. She then cruelly turned her back on him.

This is what angered Samantha, mostly the treatment of her dad, and then the rest of the family.

I thought Samantha hadn't spoken to him for years either?

Why couldn’t Meghan’s half brother look after his father? He seems hale & hearty.

Why is it Meghan who is neglectful of her Dad? The saying that, ‘when you point your finger at someone be aware that you have three fingers pointing back at you’ is surely applicable to the the half brother Tom and his sister Samantha, in regards to their father.

I think maybe that was about the lack of support around the time of the wedding.

Back then, I thought they would send a team of people to prep him (clothes, media, etc). Or else bring him to London.

Now that Spare lifted the lid on some of the chaos around the wedding, it’s not a surprise he was neglected.

I don’t know about it being just about the wedding. But you are right, the stuff about her father seems to have started then. Although I wasn’t paying much attention at the time. I do remember looking at some pics in a magazine that I read while in a doctor’s waiting room detailing T.M Snr’s ‘preparation for the wedding’ .

Samantha has been banging on about Meghan since what feels like forever.

I haven’t read Spare yet. I will, but I’m on the waiting list for it at the library, and it’s a long queue - so I don’t know about any of the ‘chaos around the wedding.’

Re: wedding chaos. The bridesmaids’ dresses all had to be remade, 3 days before the wedding. They were couture, givenchy, I think. But the house didn’t send someone to do the work. Very odd.

I wonder though, how that is Meghan's fault?

I agree that a couture house should have someone there with the dresses that week. That is a bad look for Givenchy.

Who said it was?

Sorry, I thought that was what you were saying.

Meghan was the only child of her mother and father's union. She grew up like an only child due to the age difference. Her half siblings would have more memories of Meghan than she has of them. Meghan would have been very dear to them - so I see how Samantha might be upset but also how Meghan is not aware of, or has a different memory of, the one time close relationship. It will be interesting to see what pans out.

well dramas with wedding dresses 3 days before the wedding doesn't stop Harry meeting TM long before the event. Anyone who can only muster one family member from a large family to attend the wedding of the year is decidedly odd. She seems to have had some extended family who.were close to her at times and even helped secure job opportunities so they arent all nut jobs.
Massively strange and should have rung alarm bells straight off.

It is the weirdest thing, isn't it? You'd think they'd have had a proper wedding planner so they had no stress. Not just a Canadian influencer who had no contacts here. It seems all to be organised from Meghan lying on the floor of Nottinghan Cottage. (Or maybe that's just the impression!) And they had six months to plan and yet still they had to get a local tailor in to remake the bridesmaid dresses up to the night before the wedding. What a total shambles. No wonder Meghan was,stressed. All told, it was amazing she looked so beautiful on her wedding day.

She was a mature woman and second timer so she knew the score. That "Canadian influencer" was also her best friend and an experienced wedding planner. 🙄

I don't think she was a wedding planner. She was a stylist and worked in marketing in the bridal wear department of a branch of a retail chain store.

However, even if I've got that wrong, she never did wedding planning in the UK. What contacts did Jessica Mulroney have in the uk if there was a problem? Clearly none.

She was married to the son of an ex-PM so I'd expect she was well-connected. She may have put her name to a department store brand but I doubt she was doing shopfloor 9 to 5. Her husband was the main daytime TV host in Canada at the time. She went on to present a whole series about wedding planning.

She got offered the series about wedding planning after she did Meghans wedding. So off the back of it, really.
No, she wasn't a shop assistant. Lol. She did marketing and PR for the bridal wear dept of one branch. But she didn't wedding plan.
She was a stylist primarily. The Mulroneys were/are(?) friends of the Trudeaus, I guess through his father, Brian Mulroney. And I think she styled a few outfits for Sophie Trudeau.

I don't think she was ever a wedding planner.

If somebody asked me to plan their wedding, I'd politely refuse. Not because I couldn't if I applied myself, but because I could not be less interested in weddings.
The fact that she did it and went on to plan others shows that it was her vocation at the time. Wedding planners don't have any specific skills or qualifications. It is PA/PR/events management.

See, I’d hope I’d wouldn’t be as much of a dick as Samantha is but if my life was invaded and scrutinised to the extent Samantha’s has been as a result of who your half sister happened to marry…I think I’d be pretty pissed.

Especially if you had little to no relationship with that half sister - why would you owe them any loyalty. It’s kind of apparent from the way that they talk about each other that they don’t consider themselves sisters.

Its kind of hard to believe the Palace didn’t get involved as soon as Harry started talking about marrying Meghan - as they did with Kate’s family?

Why were Meghans wider family abandoned to the media wolves?

I never heard of Samantha much until she started making a big stink.

I don’t know what they did for Kate’s family, but they obviously didn’t need the level of assistance that Thomas Markle did. Details?

Bit easier to work with people living in the UK, too.

The Beckham-Peltz union is in the US papers as her hideous father is suing the wedding planners. It’s quite eye opening. They went through 3 sets of planners before the big day, the first one walked away.