
Exactly. Especially when you're inviting celebrities you don't know. I'm pretty sure Meghan isn't close to Idris Elba, Oprah, George and Amal Clooney, James Corden, James blunt, and don't forget Nacho Figueras the famous polo player...among many others! Seriously think about it. A ton of famous people were invited yet left out 99% of her family from both sides. I'm glad her sister has called her out. I've looked up some of her accusations, and 99% she has been correct. Meghan made a speech at a university and claimed she made it through from working and grants. The real story was her dad paid for it. Her lack of character has been the problem all along. |
Not close to but not estranged from. It sounds like Meghan was estranged from Samantha. She clearly has a strained relationship with that side of the family, and inviting family you have a strained relationship with is not something anyone is obligated to do. Especially when those people spend the months leading up to the event attempting to profit off of it. Neither you nor I have any idea what her growing up was really like, what her dad really paid for, what he didn't, what strings were attached to the money he gave. Maybe you're right, maybe he was manipulative and lies all the time, honestly we do not know. Coming from a very difficult family situation myself where money was used to control and where people rewrite the truth to frame themselves in positive lights, I would never jump to conclusions based on a view that has been very much curated by her dad and sister (but not full sister right?) |
DP. She has strained relationships with every side of her family. She is on good terms with a single family member (Doria). |
Yeah those of you with great families really seem to feel like this means something. Those of us with difficult families understand nuance. She's close to the person who raised her. She has a close and loyal group of friends. We see two different stories when looking at those facts and I doubt either of us will convince the other we are right. |
I don’t have a great family. I have a screwed up, dysfunctional one. But I have still managed to maintain connections to many of my family members. Just because my family isn’t perfect and has caused me pain doesn’t mean all of my family members are irredeemable and deserve to be cut off forever. For one thing, cutting them off would mean my DD would lose relationships with her cousins, and she doesn’t deserve that. |
She didn’t invite anyone from Doria’s side either. |
DP. She wasn't close to her mother until the past few years. And she was raised by both her mother and father, they had an apparently amicable divorce and split custody. But yes, she's definitely a victim of all those mean family members. Except for Elizabeth. She's nice... |
What an interesting coincidence that the only nice one happens to be the Queen. Lol. |
How do you know any of this? I just don't believe we have any way of gauging the truth of her upbringing. There is no narrator that isn't self serving in some way on this. They divorced amicably but she bounced back and forth between their houses most of her childhood. They divorced when she was 2 and she likely has absolutely no memory of living or spending any substantial time with her half siblings. We just have no idea about any of this. It sounds like her parents were crappy parents and mostly focused on themselves. Her dad left his first family to go pursue the hollywood dream and then just dragged her along still doing it. I felt like it was telling that SO MANY of the suits cast and crew were at the wedding and spoke highly of her. |
DP. Of course other celebrities want to be in her good graces now that she is married to Harry and is tight with Oprah. There’s nothing surprising about that. Also her dad has shared a good deal of evidence from not so long ago of Meghan praising his parenting and telling him how much she loves and is grateful for him (e.g., long, personal messages in her cards to him). Why was she saying those things to him if they weren’t true? |
I don’t think she has a strained relationship with her mom’s family. I read some interview from her cousin and he was disappointed not to be invited but didn’t sound like they had an issues. Also Samantha is a half sibling. That is not the same thing as an actual sibling especially if your parents got divorced as well. |
So we are just ignoring her dad doing a bunch of interviews about her? Just because she was close doesn’t mean he is infallible. |
Meghan’s also done a bunch of interviews about the BRF…… |
Were you born yesterday? |
Yes we’ve already established that both Meghan and her dad like to run to the media to trash their family. No doubt about that. |