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\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\nSo it\u2019s OK for her to let her thoughts be known, but not OK for her father to speak to a publication?<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s somehow acceptable for her and Harry to speak to Oprah Winfrey, Netflix, New York<\/em> magazine, Harper’s Bazaar<\/em>, multiple American TV outlets (and not forgetting Harry\u2019s tell-all autobiography Spare<\/em>!) about their experiences with Harry\u2019s family. But not for her dad to do the same\u2026.<\/p>\nWhen I was covering Harry and Meghan\u2019s joyful wedding back in May 2018 (and it was joyful – everyone was so happy!) I did wonder where all Meghan\u2019s family were. Her mum Doria Ragland comes from a large family, but none were invited to St George\u2019s Chapel in Windsor on that glorious spring day.<\/p>\n
But how different it could have been if Meghan had thrown her arms around both sides of her family – and not just the celebs like George and Amal Clooney (who hardly knew the Sussexes).<\/p>\n
A courtier told me if Meghan and Harry had brought over her Markle family a couple of weeks before the wedding, put them up in a nice hotel and had them looked after by palace staff, none of this would ever have happened.<\/p>\n
Instead, poor Tom Markle (who paid to put her through private school and university) is learning how to walk with a prosthetic limb, knowing he will likely never see his daughter again.<\/p>\n
No one emerges the victor here. Least of all Meghan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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