Samantha Markle rips into Prince Harry and Meghan for shunning Australian bushfire victims
Samantha Markle has ripped into her sister Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on radio with Fifi Box and Brendan Fevola, saying they should not have shunned Australia’s bushfire victims.
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Samantha Markle has slammed Prince Harry and Meghan for choosing profits over charity labelling the couple “incredibly inhumane” as Prince William and Kate prepare to visit Australia’s bushfire affected communities.
Meghan’s estranged half sister said the couple’s first major event as private citizens for investment bank JP Morgan “seemed somewhat inappropriate on the grounds that they’re not really financial moguls.”
“I understand they have corporate goals and, you know, they want to do a so-called global empire. But, you know, the JP Morgan event, seemed inappropriate placed so closely with the damage that’s been done in Great Britain. And if they want to go around to make money, that’s fine. Everyone has the right to do that. But it’s sort of like you don’t leave bodies in your wake,” she told Fifi, Fev and Byron on Fox 101.9 on Tuesday morning.
The former model took aim at her little sister and brother-in-law for failing to support Australia’s bushfire affected communities compared to Prince William and Kate.
“To ignore that (Australian bushfires) and to go be self serving seems incredibly inhumane,” she said.
“There’s so much going on in the world in terms of suffering everywhere so to glorify themselves so much is really, I think, shocking.”
Samantha, 54, said despite media reports she has not spoken to her sister in over a decade she spoke to Meghan in 2016 about their father.
She also claimed Meghan is estranged from members of both her father’s and mother’s side.
“It’s not just the Markle family, it’s the Ragland’s and also the uncle who helped her with the internship and went as far as my dad who has given her everything almost as a sole parent as me. She’s got a sister in a wheelchair (referring to herself).”
Meghan could have cleared the air with phone calls, Samantha claims, but instead the family has been “blatantly ignored”.
“I think clearly the burden is on her as the better person or the, quote, humanitarian, to demonstrate you know, walk the walk, not just talk the talk now. And with my dad having two heart attacks it’s just incredibly cruel. And there’s no other way to slice this apple. It’s just ridiculous.”
Samantha also claimed Meghan isn’t as close to her mum Doria as it seems.
She said Doria “wasn't around much” for Meghan’s childhood and believes her attendance at the royal wedding was “very fake”.
“Our dad pretty much raised her as a single parent. And you know what? She was born, brought home from the hospital to our house. Her mum moved in with us when I was 14.
“Dorian was not around very much so all of this public, you know, matriarchy thing, I felt like that was a strategic way of either impressing her royal majesty and doing the women’s empowerment thing, which seemed somewhat false.”
She added: “It all seems very fake.”
Samantha said she can’t excuse Meghan shutting out her family. But she was particularly shocked when she turned her back on the Queen.
“When I saw her doing the same thing and being, you know what, I consider it disrespectful to the royal majesty, I thought, oh, God, where does it stop?”.
She said she believes Doria wouldn't have been involved in Prince Harry and Meghan's decisions.
“I’m not even sure that Doria would approve of what’s gone on,” she said.
“I’m hoping at one point they will say, ‘hey what we’ve been doing is not cool, it’s not right, lets do the right thing’. How much damage can you do before it’s obvious”.
Samantha also dismissed the view that the couple were victims of the media when asked whether they would last as civilians.
“I’m not sure but I think the bigger picture is that they liked the royal life until the public started scrutinising them for behavioural choices.
“Of course when you are a child put in a corner for doing wrong you’re not very happy.
“There was this public perception that they were victims. They’re not.”
Samantha revealed Meghan has turned her back on her longtime school friend.
“She had a very good best friend of 30 years who she has also quote ‘ghosted’,” she said.
And Meghan’s high school is also feeling some strain with articles saying Immaculate Heart High School was racist.
“On the contrary it was very eclectic and multiculturally diverse,” she said.
“It’s so stereotypically a form of denial and lack of accountability.”
Samantha defended her right to comment for cash.
“Certainly in a wheelchair I have a right to do that,” she said, referring to her disability.
“The bottom line is this is not just about Meghan. I have a right to speak about my life, my father has a right to speak about his.
“For Meghan to suddenly make it Meghan has a copyright for all things Markle family. No.”
She also revealed the royals never told the family to keep quiet.
“No. At the beginning Harry had made a comment to my father ‘don’t speak because they’ll tear you apart’ but I don’t see that Meghan and Harry have been too worried about that.
“We were told that someone would come and brief us on handling the media but nobody ever came.”