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Meghan Markle He has an older half-sister named Samantha Marklefruit from his father’s first marriage and with whom he does not get along. The 58-year-old has been an outspoken critic of the Duchess of Suxxex ever since she started dating Prince Harry in 2016. She has a daughter whose name is ashley halewith whom the former actress does have a close relationship.
Now in the new documentary series of Netflix titled harry & meghanMarkle’s young niece tearfully revealed that she was unable to attend her aunt’s wedding with ehe prince harry on May 19, 2018, due to not being invited.
In the third episode of the documentary, Ashleigh, previously unknown, gave her testimony and explained why she was unable to attend the royal wedding.
Who is Ashleigh Hale, Meghan Markle’s niece?
Ashleigh Hale introduces herself as an immigration attorney and “Meg’s niece”. She is the biological daughter of Samantha Markle, but she and her brother were raised by her paternal grandparents, who gained custody of her when she was approximately two years old.
He said he reconnected with Samantha in 2007 after not seeing her since she was six years old, which is when he also entered the former actress’s life. suit.
Ashleigh said her relationship with Meghan started with long emails, which led to text messages, calls and regular communication. Meghan then invited Ashleigh on a vacation to New Orleans.
“For me, Meghan is a bit of everything, my sister, my mother, my best friend, she is like everything,” Ashley lovingly declared.
For her part, Meghan Markle assured that “Ash” was like her “little sister”.
distancing
Ashleigh Hale noted that after the news of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s engagement broke, her mother started “voicing a lot of angry words about Meg,” causing her and Samantha to stop talking altogether.
Also, after the engagement of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, aunt and niece were losing contact, since the Duchess of Sussex wanted to protect Hale from the press.
“The media started to put a lot of pressure on Ashley by association and I didn’t want her to get involved in all this drama,” the Duchess said.
no invitation
Samantha Markle she told the tabloids that she had not yet been invited to the wedding. The Palace communications team decided that inviting Ashleigh Hale to the wedding, but not her mother, would be difficult to explain and therefore a public relations disasterthus they convinced Meghan and Harry that they could not invite Ashleigh to the event.
Meghan was in charge of breaking the sad news to Ashley: “I was in the car with H, and I called her and put her on speaker phone and we talked to her about the guidance we received and why this assessment was done. And that’s painful. “said the California native.
“It hurt me, but I understood it. Because of my mother, that relationship that was so important to me was suffering, her attacks were full of rancor,” Ashleigh added.
Harry & Meghan is a six-part docuseries directed by Oscar and Emmy winner Liz Garbus that aims to tell the story of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s romance from her point of view. The first three episodes dropped today, December 8, and the final three will premiere on Netflix on Thursday, December 15.