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The book is touted to be tell-all to end all tell-alls and delves into everything from Meghan Markle’s childhood to her relations with her family and how she bagged herself a prince.
But the Duchess of Sussex is apparently unconcerned by it – and it’s no doubt the last reaction her half-sister, Samantha Grant, was hoping for. Samantha is the author of the bombshell new memoir, The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister: A Memoir, Part One, that promises readers that “truth is stranger than fiction”.
Samantha, who has spent the past four years writing the book, dissects the highly publicised rift between Meghan (39) and their father, Thomas Markle (76); their own sibling rivalry while Thomas was married to Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland (64); and how the former actress now shuns her American relatives.
The 56-year-old former model and actress, who has multiple sclerosis and is wheelchair-bound, also touches on Meghan’s first marriage to film producer Trevor Engelson. And Samantha brands Prince Harry's comment in an interview that the royals were the “family that Meghan never had” as the “ultimate insult”.
Meghan has not yet publicly commented on the book and reports that she was “sick to her stomach” about it are untrue, a friend of the duchess tells Vanity Fair.
“The book has barely registered on her radar. Meghan has not seen Samantha for years so the idea she is worried about the book is nonsense.”
It’s believed Meghan last saw her Florida-based half-sister in 2008 at her graduation.
In recent years, Samantha has not held back on her opinion of her half-sibling’s entry into royal life. After Meghan and Harry announced their engagement in 2017, she was quoted as saying “the queen would be appalled”.
However, after news of Meghan’s pregnancy broke in 2018, she told The Sun, “It just makes everything that happened over the last year disappear. I want Meghan to be happy and calm and have peace.”
But that same year she dubbed Meghan a “duch**s” on Twitter, and said her half-sister who should be “humane to our father who has given her everything”.
In February 2019, she called out Hollywood star George Clooney after he voiced his support of Meghan, comparing her to Princess Diana when it came to being “vilified and chased” by the media.
“Hey Looney Clooney! Your lawyer wife should have taught you not to make statements without full facts,” Samantha tweeted. “I doubt George Clooney would ghost his mother for no legitimate reason. Be quiet, Georgie.”
In an essay she penned for The Sun, Samantha dismissed reports that racism may have spurred Meghan and Harry’s decision to quit the royal family, saying it was all about seeking “fame and glory in Hollywood”.
“Nothing about their actions so far suggest they truly desire a private life out [of] the limelight. They have paraded themselves on the red carpet, tried to make deals with Disney and become pals with the Clooneys and other A-list stars. Their objective is fame and fortune – to be Hollywood.”
Sources: dailymail.co.uk, huffpost.com, vanityfair.com, cosmopolitan.com
