‘It is a slap in the face’: Samantha Markle lashes out over estranged sister Meghan and Prince Harry’s decision to quit the royal family – as she accuses her of ‘engaging in attention-getting behaviors’
- Samantha Markle spoke out on Thursday after Meghan and Harry’s bombshell announcement they would be stepping back from their senior royal duties
- Meghan’s estranged half-sister called their decision a ‘slap in the face’
- Samantha claims Meghan would have known what royal life entailed before she married Prince Harry as she called their desire for privacy ‘ridiculous’
- She said the couple stepped into the spotlight and accused Meghan of ‘engaging in attention-getting behaviors’
- As part of Meghan and Harry’s shock announcement, they revealed they planned to split their time between the UK and North America
- Samantha, who lives in Florida, said she has no intention of utilizing the close proximity to mend her relationship with her sister
Samantha Markle has lashed out at her estranged sister Meghan and husband Prince Harry calling their decision to exit the royal family a ‘slap in the face’.
Meghan’s half-sister spoke out on Thursday following the couple’s bombshell announcement a day earlier that they would be stepping back from their senior royal duties.
‘It is a slap in the face,’ Samantha told Inside Edition in an interview to air Thursday night.
‘I think what is shocking is the lack of consideration for the people involved, the British royal family, the promises that were originally made to honor royal duties and to lead by example.’
Samantha Markle on Thursday lashed out at her estranged sister Meghan and her husband Prince Harry calling their decision to exit the royal family a ‘slap in the face’
When asked if the couple could be blamed for wanting privacy and to step out of the spotlight, Samantha claims Meghan would have known what royal life entailed before she married Prince Harry.
‘That’s ridiculous, they stepped into the spotlight knowing what the duties were, knowing what the media would be like for them,’ Samantha said.
‘Clearly, she knows she’s engaging in attention-getting behaviors.’
Samantha added that if Meghan wanted to be ‘so private’ she wouldn’t have gone to Wimbledon last year to watch her friend Serena Williams play and be pictured with ’40 empty seats around her’.
As part of Meghan and Harry’s shock announcement, they revealed they planned to split their time between the UK and North America.
Samantha, who lives in Florida, said she has no intention of utilizing the close proximity to mend her relationship with her sister.
Meghan’s half-sister spoke out on Thursday following the couple’s bombshell announcement a day earlier that they would be stepping back from their senior royal duties
Samantha and Meghan, who share a father, had been estranged for several years. Ever since Meghan and Prince Harry got engaged in 2017, Samantha has relentlessly tweeted about their dysfunctional family
‘No, I don’t have any plan of that with the way she’s treated this family, our family and the royals,’ Samantha said.
‘I think it’s horrendous how we’ve been treated and I wouldn’t want to associate with anyone who could do this to people so easily.’
Ever since Meghan and Prince Harry got engaged in 2017, Samantha has relentlessly tweeted about their dysfunctional family.
She blamed Meghan for icing out their father Thomas Markle and other members of the family, called her ‘inhumane’ and ‘the Duchess of Nonsense’ while branding Prince Harry a ‘hamster’ and a ‘wuss’.
Asked to address the negativity, Samantha on Thursday said it wasn’t about her being jealous.
‘I was being honest from the beginning in hopes that it would appeal to her heart and her morality,’ Samantha said.
Ever since Meghan and Prince Harry got engaged in 2017, Samantha has relentlessly tweeted on her private account about their dysfunctional family. She has blamed Meghan for icing out their father Thomas Markle and other members of the family
‘The family has extended olive branches to her to demonstrate that we want to be on amicable terms but she wasn’t willing to extend it back.’
Her interview came as the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince Williams had ordered their teams to find a ‘workable solution’ over the future of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex within the royal family.
A Buckingham Palace source said the senior royals have asked aides to work ‘at pace’ with governments and The Sussex Household and an outcome was expected to take ‘days, not weeks’.
The Queen and other members of the family were said to be left ‘hurt’ by Harry and Meghan’s decision to issue a personal statement, which outlined their future lives as financially independent royals who will divide their time between the UK and North America.
Meghan has returned to Canada, where eight-month-old son Archie is said to have stayed with his nanny when his parents flew back to London this week.