Meghan Markle and Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, weren’t the best of friends. It will not have escaped anyone … But this summer, a clearing seemed to emerge in their relationship hitherto stormy, when the deceased monarch had proposed to the Duchess of Sussex to come and spend a few days with Prince Harry in his residence. summer in Balmoral, Scotland.
She would also have been invaluable advice, as revealed by royal expert Katie Nicholl. Indeed, she would have tried to convince the mother of Lilibet and Archie to appease her relationship with her father. “The Queen could see how damaging the situation was between Meghan and her father and she spoke to Meghan about it and tried to encourage her to speak to Thomas“, wrote Katie Nicholl in her next book, The New Royals.
According to the latter, Elizabeth II considered that “it was all pretty badly handled with Thomas Markle and that if it had been done differently it would have gone betterAs a reminder, the father, now 78, was supposed to accompany Meghan Markle down the aisle at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, when she married Prince Harry in May 2018.
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What he finally did not do since he had argued with his daughter when she learned that he had called on several paparazzi to take photos of him in full preparation for D-Day. had initially justified his absence by a fragile state of health, which had pushed him to undergo a heart operation. It was ultimately King Charles III who accompanied the actress to Suits in the aisle of the chapel.
But this is just one argument among many since she also accused her father to have disclosed to the press a private letter which she had written after her marriage. She then had win a trial against the tabloid publishing company Mail on Sunday for invasion of privacy after the publication of this famous letter. Heavy sanctions then fell on thepublisher who had been forced to pay 90% of Meghan Markle’s legal fees, estimated at around 1.73 million euros. He also had to write an apology on the front page of the newspaper.
Since then, the situation between Meghan Markle and her father still seems very complicated … A potential reconciliation is still not relevant.