Meghan Markle has carved out her own life after meeting her own Prince Charming in Harry, the Duke of Sussex, but ties to her family were severed many years ago. Her brother, Thomas Markle Jr, says if she did return to apologize, he wouldn’t let her.
The Duchess of Sussex has been settled in her life in California with Prince Harry for more than four years. Meghan Markle, her husband, and their son Archie, traveled across the Atlantic to find a new life after stepping down from Buckingham Palace, and they’ve never looked back. While there has been enough royal drama to fuel a long-standing soap opera ever since, it seems some wounds are too deep to heal, no matter how much time passes. Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, has spoken out, and said there’s nothing that can be done to mend the broken bonds between them.
Meghan Markle’s sad family reality that her half-brother doesn’t see getting better
The 43-year-old has spoken about the difficult relationship with her father and siblings herself. The now mom-of-two opened up about the struggles they’ve faced in her Netflix and Oprah Winfrey documentary. While the royals received backlash from critics for airing the royal family’s dirty laundry, she was also praised for raising awareness over mental health. Despite this, Harry, himself, finally revealed the real reason he sat down with Oprah.
But it doesn’t mean the backlash disappeared, either.
Her brother, who didn’t hold back talking about his famous sister when he ventured into the Big Brother house in Australia, has resurfaced to give his side.
Speaking to TalkTV, he claimed the Duchess had an ‘attitude’ growing up, and that their father admitted she was ‘too spoiled’. He alleged she was ‘always jealous’ of them both and even her mother Doria Ragland.
TV anchor Kevin O’Sullivan asks whether he believes Meghan is a ‘social mountaineer’, climbing up the ladder to the top of royalty.
“She doesn’t fit into our family because we’re not like that,” Thomas Jr replied.
He continued: “Meghan’s the odd ball and cast out, I think we’ve all come to the agreement even if she came up with a fake scenario of wanting to rekindle and reconnect with e family, we wouldn’t allow it.”
“Because it’d be a Netflix deal – or a cancelled Netflix deal”, he laughed.
When pressed if she approached for a reconciliation, what would happen.
Thomas said: “For what she’s put through my father through, I wouldn’t let within 10 feet or 50 feet of my father at all.
“Unless my dad personally asked me to step aside to allow it, then I would respect his wishes, because he’s been through a lot, and he doesn’t deserve what she’s done to him”.
Thomas Markle Snr has spoken out wanting to see his grandchildren for the first time for six years. He didn’t get to go to her wedding as he was in hospital for a heart problem, and spoke to paparazzi about Meghan and Harry’s relationship. He has apologized to his daughter on television and through news media, but it seems nothing has come from it.
He then made a final plea to meet his grandchildren last year, fearing he would die before he ever would.
Meghan, on the other hand, said in 2021 that she pretty much ‘grew up as an only child’ as her half-siblings – Samantha and Thomas Jr – were not around because they were older.
She also blasted Samantha’s book about the royal, and said she didn’t ‘know’ them.
She told Oprah: “I wished I had siblings. I would have loved to have had siblings. So I’m so excited to be pregnant [so] that Archie has someone. [It] was really interesting to me, I mean, the last time I saw her must have been at least 18, 19 years ago. And before that, 10 years before that.”
The former Suits actress added: “She changed her last name back to Markle in, I think she was in her early 50s at that time, only when I started dating Harry”.
But Samantha bit back and said these statements were not true.
