‘No bigger vulture than you’: Meghan’s sister slammed in fiery TV interview

SAMANTHA Markle was doing what she does best — weighing in on her estranged half-sister’s life — when her interview on breakfast TV took a very unpleasant turn.

MEGHAN Markle’s estranged half-sister Samantha has been blasted as a “vulture” by television host Piers Morgan after she defended her father’s decision to take staged paparazzi pictures ahead of the royal wedding.

Appearing on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, Samantha Markle, 53, backed her father Thomas Markle, 73, after he reportedly said he would stay away from Meghan’s wedding to avoid embarrassing his daughter and the royal family — although he’s since changed his mind, according to TMZ.

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“He wanted peace and quiet,” Samantha said about the days leading up to the wedding. “But when he calls me panicking on the freeway because he’s in a dangerous situation, being followed by seven or eight cars, I think there have been examples in history of how dangerous that can be,” she said in a thinly veiled reference to the death of Princess Diana in a Paris car accident while being followed by photographers.

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“He was so stressed out. They rented the house next to him in Mexico ... He can’t open his blinds he can’t go anywhere without being followed. Really it’s quite atrocious and intrusive.”

Samantha, who hasn’t spoke to her half-sister Meghan in three years, said their father was having heart pains and was under an “unbelievable” amount of stress. She has also taken the blame for the staged photographs that showed him getting measured for a suit, working out and at an internet cafe.

When she labelled the media “vultures”, host Piers Morgan jumped in, saying: “There’s no bigger media vulture with this wedding than you, is there Ms Markle?”

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“How you can have the gall to come on here and talk about media vultures. You wrote a book called The Diary Of Princess Pushy’s Sister ... You’ve been trashing her for two years, you little vulture.”

‘You’ve been trashing her for two years you little vulture’ - @piersmorgan says to Meghan Markle’s half-sister https://t.co/QIdDr8z1aT #RoyalWedding pic.twitter.com/UWsqfXtjY7

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) May 15, 2018

He also accused her of “popping up on the airwaves and making a lot of money for herself”. But Samantha defended her book and said “people just want to look at the negatives”.

Recently, Samantha has changed her last name from Grant back to Markle, and dyed her blond hair to an eerily similar shade as her estranged half-sister’s.

Samantha’s usual hair colour.

She’s very coincidentally dyed her hair to match Meghan’s ahead of the wedding. Picture: ITV

She’s also been front and centre in the headlines since news first broke of Harry and Meghan’s relationship.

She’s done the rounds of international media over the past 18 months — even appearing on A Current Affair in February — and provided a near-constant flow of (largely unflattering) information about Meghan to anyone who’ll listen. Samantha, who has reportedly not spoken to Meghan for years, is even spruiking her book, The Diary Of Princess Pushy’s Sister.

In 2016, she told the UK’s Mirror that her little sister is “shallow”, “narcissistic” and bent on “social climbing”.

In other interviews, she claimed: “Hollywood has changed her.”

“I think her ambition is to become a princess … The truth would kill her relationship with Prince Harry,” Samantha was quoted as saying.

Meanwhile, Meghan’s extended family has been spotted flying into London ahead of Saturday’s wedding, which is expected to be watched by millions of people around the world.

Meghan’s nephews Tyler, 25, and Thomas Dooley, 26, and their mum Tracy Dooley Markle were photographed at Heathrow Airport late on Monday.

With no invite to the wedding of the year, they are believed to be special correspondents for morning television show Good Morning Britain.