The controversy-courting half-sister of Meghan Markle is planning to hold a formal wedding party at her home in Florida.
Samantha Markle has repeatedly been in the spotlight in the run up to Prince Harry’s wedding, launching attacks on the bride-to-be and vowing to write a tell-all book about their relationship.
After, unsurprisingly, she was not invited to the real wedding in Windsor, it emerged today that she will host a party at her home in Silver Springs, Florida.
Meghan Markle’s half-sister is hosting a party at her home on Saturday after she was not invited to the real royal wedding following a series of controversial claims she has made
Samantha and her boyfriend will host friends at a formal party at their home in Silver Springs
Guests are being told to come in formal attire, with US gossip website TMZ reporting Samantha is planning to wearing a smart dress and ‘vintage art deco hat’.
The website also claims that Samantha will be drafting off-duty police officers to keep out any gatecrashers.
In repeated rants to the media, Samantha, 53, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, has portrayed Meghan as ‘narcissistic and selfish’ and claimed her half-sister had disowned her because of her disability.
Since then, her claims have grown more wounding and bizarre by the day.
Yesterday, hitting back at Meghan’s reported pleas for her to stop sniping, she even invoked the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, saying angrily: ‘She’s not going to tell me that I can’t speak about my life. I’m not going to take it. She’s way out of her league… there is something in this country called freedom of speech. Meghan doesn’t have a copyright on that.’
Ms Markle previously said she had encouraged her father to do a deal with paparazzi, the discovery of which has partly led to his decision not to attend the wedding.
Samantha is not close to Meghan and has been accused of ‘cashing in’ on the royal wedding
She has also hit out at Kensington Palace for not helping her and Meghan’s father Thomas after his heart attack, claiming she had to send him money.
She said his heart condition had been ‘life-threatening’ and he needed surgery, and that afterwards she had to ‘send my father money twice by MoneyGram because he needed it’.
Dismissing reports that Kensington Palace had offered support for her father in Mexico, she claimed: ‘That is not true or he would not have been living in his place, he’d have a reliable vehicle, he’d have security.’
During one of a series of TV appearances this week, she was branded a ‘little vulture’ by Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan.
In an explosive exchange Mr Morgan asked her: ‘How much money have you made from trashing Meghan Markle?’ to which Samantha replied: ‘Not very much’.