Samantha Markle, Meghan Markle's half-sister who has spent most of this year lobbing nasty insults at the new Duchess of Sussex, apologized for her behavior on British TV Monday, but blamed her rancor over not being invited to her sister's royal wedding to Prince Harry in May.
"I apologize and wish things could be different," Markle said softly on the Jeremy Vine on Channel 5 talk show.
Markle, 53, who lives in Florida and uses a wheelchair due to multiple sclerosis, said she arrived in Britain Saturday hoping to meet or speak with Meghan, 37, her half-sister with whom she shares a father.
"I don't think that's going to happen," she told Vine.
Vine posted multiple clips of the interview on Twitter, quoting Samantha Markle as saying that the past year of public resentment expressed by Markle relatives against Meghan, Harry and the royal family, could have been avoided if those relatives had been invited to the May 19 wedding at Windsor Castle.
Markle told Vine she went to Buckingham Palace on Sunday but had no way of contacting her sister. Meghan doesn't live at that palace, she and Harry live at Kensington Palace nearly two miles away. (And they spend some weekends at their country retreat outside London.)
When Vine asked her what message she wants to impart to Meghan, Markle suggested that Meghan was to blame for the "hurt" her Markle relatives feel.
"I would just say that there is so much water under the bridge and so much has spun out of control that was never intended to," she said. "I think everybody was hurt not being included or invited to the wedding, but I felt as though it could have all been nipped in the bud had everyone been included...The hurt feelings wouldn't have snowballed..."
But, she added, the family still cares about Meghan.
"Believe it or not, it doesn't mean that we love you any less, I just think that families can be this way when there's confusion and people are hurt," she said. "So moving forward, I apologize and wish things could be different."
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Markle has a lot to apologize for: She and her sister were mostly estranged even before Meghan's engagement to Harry was announced in November 2017, and relations did not improve afterwards. In recent months, she has publicly called Meghan such epithets as "DuchAss," "Cruella de Vil" and "Princess Pushy."
It was part of a toxic tide of criticism she poured out on Twitter and during multiple appearances on British TV, in which she expressed bitterness about the wedding snub and about her claim that their father, Thomas Markle Sr, has been badly treated by the royal family.
Her father also has done multiple critical interviews since the wedding, complaining that he has been unable to speak to Meghan and that the "cult-like" royal family has "shunned" him.
Meghan's father was invited and planned to walk Meghan down the aisle but he cancelled at the last minute because he said he was too sick to travel after sudden heart surgery. His decision followed days of indecision after an embarrassing flap over his participation in staged paparazzi photos of himself getting ready for the wedding.
Since then, Samantha Markle repeatedly assailed her sister for allegedly ignoring her father's health and refusing to talk to him. She defended her behavior by blaming it on the media.
"(My father) was being purposely ignored," she said Monday. "We were hoping that private channels would be used. When they failed we went public. I was lashing out more at the media."
The Vine interview also included viewer call-ins and some of them were critical of Markle. One caller told Markle if she was so concerned about her father, why isn't she with him instead of "coming over to STALK your sister."
"All we've seen is the hate you've spewed against your sister," said one caller. "If you actually loved your sister, I think this should have been done in private, not on social media."
Markle responded that she is a victim of the tabloid media.
"Most of what you read in the tabloids is not true, there's not been 'bashing' and 'slamming,' those are words that tabloids use," she said. "What people don’t remember, there have been so many times I've said in live interviews favorable things and those were not printed."
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