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MEGHAN MARKLE’S FATHER will not attend her wedding to Prince Harry this weekend, according to US media reports, as Kensington Palace pleaded for “understanding and respect” for the couple during a “difficult situation”.
According to celebrity news website TMZ, Thomas Markle, who recently posed for paparazzi photos, has pulled out of accompanying his daughter down the aisle at Windsor Castle because he does not want to embarrass her.
He is also reported to have suffered a heart attack in recent days.
Kensington Palace, the official residence of the couple, did not confirm whether Markle senior had pulled out of the wedding, but it did issue a statement hinting that all was not well.
“This is a deeply personal moment for Ms Markle in the days before her wedding,” the palace said in a statement.
She and Prince Harry ask again for understanding and respect to be extended to Mr Markle in this difficult situation.
The US actor’s father had previously defied the palace’s pleas for secrecy by agreeing to pose for a paparazzi photoshoot.
The images, showing him being measured for a suit and admiring a photo of the future royal couple on his computer, sold for $100,000 (€83,000) according to tabloid the Daily Mirror.
A source close to Thomas Markle, cited by the publication, said he was convinced to pose for the shots after being hounded by the paparazzi. He is now said to feel “like a total fool” who has been “scammed”.
Markle, who grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, had been due to be walked up the aisle by her 73-year-old father, an Emmy-winning Hollywood lighting director, who is now retired.
Her mother Doria Ragland is a 61-year-old yoga instructor and clinical therapist.
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I feel so sorry for her. Her family have made an absolute show of her since the engagement was announced.
@Karen Lord: while her family seem a little dysfunctional, a lot of families are. What most people don’t have to deal with is tabloid rags making it out to be a lot bigger than it is. Definitely feel sorry for her. Meanwhile though there’s children being massacred in Gaza so…
Im sure the queen id thinking…. Bloody Commoners!
@Karen Lord: she is married into a very dysfunctional family so she should feel at home ..
@Karen Lord: Rubbish and Bull shit
So he had s photo taken Grow up
He’s not marrying a virgin she is an American and worldly wise Shame me Backside
@The Guru: The children are obviously being murdered by their parents. Their parents are martyring them. Any other opinion is delusional.
So she’s from a normal family, so refreshing.
@mcgoo: Normal? Have you seen the behaviour of her half siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins since she got engaged??
@Ciara Baines: their behaviour or the behaviour of the English press towards them. If her own father isn’t going to the wedding I would the blame on the Windsors. A typical family on government benefits, they think the world owes them a living.
@Ciara Baines: The people of britain are fools to be putting these germans on a pedestal. the soaps and the X factor has turned them into morons.
@Sean Conway: Fair City and the Irish X Factor elevates us to new heights of intellect
@prop joe: “A typical family on government benefits, they think the World owes them a living”——-Just like our ethnic minorities!
It is a dreadfully trying and tense time for all of us
Hope they will have a lovely day in spite of everything. .They are a lovely couple and I hope they will be very happy….. I will be watching them on Saturday. ….
I’ve no interest in the royals but, the paparazzi destroyed Harry’s life once already. They could do with giving it a rest
Daily mail having a field day.
He saw the zeros and couldn’t resist. Yes protocol is involved but yanks don’t get it. They think it’s something to be shrugged off
More BS to get the British tabloids and MSM exercised…..I wonder will James Hewett be going.
He pulled out or was castigated until he “respectfully” withdrew by some protocol droid?
Ah maybe they’ll save him a bit of wedding cake ….
@Sean Leonard: He’ll surely be asked to the “afters”.
It may seem to be tough on the couple getting married, but considering that Harry has apparently never even met his future father in law it doesn’t really surprise me that he is not attending his daughters wedding. The Markle family will get over it without the worlds media prying into their private lives. A wedding doesn’t make a marriage as Meghan Markle well knows.
@Chris Kirk: Harry did meet him. When they were in Canada.
@Chris Kirk: of course he’s met him! Sure the father visited them quite recently in London!
@Peter Cavey: Really, I must be reading different newspapers to you.
@Peter Cavey: no he didn’t he met her mother in Canada.
Jesus Harry must hate the paparazzi, with good reason.. let them have a wedding day of dreams. Forget about everything else.
Well why not her mum to walk her up the aisle, my mum did and it’s a treasured memory for us . Plus my sister walked her daughters up the aisle . OR Megan is an independent woman does she need Anyone to walk her up the aisle ?
So he’s going to miss his daughters 2ND marriage and she’s not even 40 yet
@Mark Carroll: and?
@Deborah Behan: he’ll have a chance to attend her 3rd
@Deborah Behan: as in what is the problem, wasn’t at the last one!
I thought what Meghan s father done was brilliant staging the photos and making some money as well, I hope he does go to his daughters wedding.
And by not attending your daughters wedding you did just that “embarrass her” Jackie Onaisis had the same embarrassmet her father done the same its still mentioned in every drama about her or the Kennedys to this day.. man up and be there for her, this is not sbout you.
If Megan Markle had a wit of sense she would run a mile from one of the most dysfunctional families on the planet. It give the marriage when it happens three years at best.
One is quite upset about one’s behaviour.
Ghastly gentleman selling his photo for 100,000 Dollars.What a complete load of Manure!
Would you turn down 100 grand for a silly photo?
Ye must be joking.Id bite de bleedin hand of ye!
I wonder what philip thinks of his pure blood being contaminated. urhh!
@Sean Conway: Philip isn’t a blood relative of Harry (unless you believe that Charles really is his dad)
@O’Boyle Darragh: They marry their cousins.. so one way or another they are blood related.
@O’Boyle Darragh: On the technical side of your assumption Diana hadn’t actually got near Hewitt when Harry was conceived. That came after. His red hair actually comes from both sides of his dysfunctional tribe. He seems to luckily missed the Battenburg ears though.
@Sean Conway: pure blood being contaminated? With a person of colours blood? What?
Awful . Meghan will rue the day. She might love Harry but the paparazzi with drive a wedge between the two and she will exit stage left.
So what. Harry’s father won’t be there either.
I wish them well myself in USA there would be called trailer trash .. Megan’s family its sad for her but at least she has her husband to be
@Fiona Krijnen: You make it sound like Meghan Markle has just wone a fairground prize…
There’s always hiccups, with weddings, who you sit beside, getting pictures, taking ,speeches, family and friends, who don’t normally get on very well, I wish them every happiness, they will be fine,
As my father used to say about princess Diana… she’s marrying beneath her…
Markle is a disgrace for getting baptised into a faith – her recent choice – that has engaged in so much violence and colonialism and which is a political religion. It has no right to demand or expect the forgiveness of the world for what it has done. It is not our place to forgive. What she has done is an insult to the Irish blood that was spilled by the Anglican faith.
@Patrick Gormley: What difference does it make what a person does, religion is basically all the same believing in one God with just rules made up by men over centuries. Anglicanism has its roots in Catholicism without the smells and bells.
@Patrick Gormley: yer gormless
You couldn’t make this up.
Yawn city!
@Jun Stone: ya gotta admit it’s an f’ing laugh fest at this stage, and the joke is in the BRF
When I see Paparazzi, they look like hungry rats trying to get a bite. The news papers twist the news to suit themselves. You never get the truth.
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