Just before the royal wedding, the stressed bride-to-be is hurt by her family’s public betrayal.
Meghan Markle’s wedding planning has gone from being an exciting, joyous occasion to a right royal nightmare as she continually faces the wrath of relatives she’s snubbed from the wedding guest list.
The bride-to-be secretly jetted home to the US to finalise her UK visa application, but sources tell Woman’s Day she used the opportunity to confront several family members after they went public about not being invited to watch her marry Prince Harry, 33.
Her half-sister Samantha Grant has been forthright in her criticism of Meghan since she started dating Harry and is penning a tell-all book titled The Diary Of Princess Pushy’s Sister. She calls it “poor taste” that “no one” in the family was asked to the wedding, while more than 2500 strangers were invited.
FAMILY FALLOUT
Meghan’s cousin Trish Gallup also says the family was “hurt and saddened” to be left off the list for the Windsor wedding.
It’s unlikely Meghan, 36, would want her half-brother Thomas Markle Jr at the event, given his arrest in January 2017 for allegedly threatening his girlfriend Darlene Blount with a gun during a drunken brawl.
And last week, Thomas, 51, only widened the rift when he accused Meghan of casting aside her family and “acting phoney” in her new royal life.
This story is from the 30 April 2018 edition of Woman's Day Australia.
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