In a video that surfaced in the run-up to the wedding, an 18-year-old Meghan
was seen being driven past her father’s house on the way home from an
audition to be one of Shakira’s backup dancers. In it, she says she wouldn’t
stop there because “We aren’t on the best of terms.” Of course, Meghan
wouldn’t be the first to have a fight with her father during adolescence, but
the new claim of ill-feeling between the two suggests that disharmony may
have gone on into adulthood.
This may help to make sense of the otherwise baffling fact that Mr. Markle
declared himself bankrupt over $27,000 of credit- and store-card debt in
2016, when his daughter was making a lot of money as a star of the show
Suits. Did Meghan even know what her father was going through?
The reactivation of deep-seated resentment could also explain why Mr.
Markle appears to have gone off the deep end in his attacks on his daughter
in so short a space of time; don’t forget that, amidst his ragings, he has
conceded Meghan and Harry did call him after their wedding, did forgive him
for the paparazzi setup, did send an aide to Mexico to collect him and did
have shoes and suits made specially for him for the wedding. Yet just six
weeks after the nuptials, he betrayed her by giving a paid interview to British
TV. Little surprise perhaps that DailyMail.com reports, “A reconciliation is
completely off the table at the moment. There’s no chance right now—he’s
been a complete embarrassment.”
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