You can choose your friends....

paddyann
I meant the mouthy sister and her father and brother (who wrote that awful letter to Harry)
I don't blame Meghan for distancing herself, if indeed that is what she's doing.
I don't doubt that if she REALLY wanted to, she would have contacted him well before now. The fact that, as far as we know, neither she nor Harry have made any effort to see him or invite him to stay is open to interpretation, depending on the views of individuals.
The more interviews he gives and the more he slags off the RF and says Meghan is under pressure and unhappy, the less likely is a rapprochement.
As a mature adult of 36, I expect that she will have considered the constraints this marriage confers and Harry and others on the Palace staff will have made sure that she understands protocol and avoids social media etc.
She's made her bed...
I can't get over Markle Snr telling Harry that he'd ' better not beat or lay a hand on Meghan', in the phone call when Harry asked for permussion to marry her. Unbelievable!!
That shows he has absolutely no perception of how to be mannerly.

Maybe "cut out" is a bit strong but I was just thinking they must be one of the few families who don't have to discuss who is going where for Christmas, or certainly didn't in the recent past. Glad William managed to change that one a bit.

I don’t think the royals have cut out in laws. Anne was very close to her first in laws, her son is named for her father in law . Fergie’s father wasn’t cut out,

The Royals do tend to cut out the in laws, or did in the past, only the Middletons seem to have managed so far.As they are in the US and Mexico I don't see how Meghan's family can be stopped from talking to whoever they want. I don't see how Harry and Meghan can just pop to Mexico. Very wisely I think they are doing the right thing in saying nothing in reply, I am sure they will continue to do so.

Jalima1108 I totally agree with you. Her Half-Sister is a loud mouthed b****. MM's F was a recluse, can't see that he would have relished being in the limelight, Heart problems do seem to be an excuse maybe I'm wrong.

As for Harry & MM visiting her F, as he lives in Mexico this is a Security nightmare, perhaps they should have made the effort but we don't know the truth & after that interview with PM well words fail me.

Apparently RF offered assistance to MM's F but he dismissed any help

Harry should have kept his affections for someone whose family were least likely to out their heads above the parapet.
Easier said than done Gabriella - look what happened when his father was not allowed to marry the love of his life and had a bride chosen for him.

I am Camp Meghan too Iam64 - and she was brought up by her mother who seems a very sensible woman - did her father not abandon her mother who brought Meghan up on her own?

'Relatives we've got whether we like them or not, friends they come and go' as the saying goes.

Be dignified, Meghan and ignore them - they really are not worth it.

JenniferEccles,that’s a very unkind & unpleasant post.

I am not for either side, know only what is reported , the family certaintly are not as other families who marry into the Windsor family , lack dignity , but could be they have been badly hurt by a family member who wished to climb the social ladder, we don’t know.

To use a common phrase, I'm camp Meghan in the Meghan - her family discussion.
Paddynan seems to have known a lot of unpleasant folks who have masqueraded as being in the SAS or similar, then disowned their families. Fantasising that you've been in the SAS or been hugely successful is usually something folks with personality disorders do. No one is suggesting Meghan fits that category - are they?

The suggestion that Harry shouldn't have continued his relationship with Meghan once he realised how difficult her family were going to be is daft.
Good luck to them I say. Plus, keep away from your family, except your mum Meghan, they're nightmares. It isn't your job to make it all alright for them - they're selling you right down the river. Having anything to do with them only gives them more ammunition to shoot at you. Horrible.

Megan lived with a celebrity chef for two years, the affair ended May 2016, she met Harry in June 2016.

She is a half-sister not a sister. Did think it strange that the heart problem came up so close to the wedding. If I were Megan I would keep clear of them until they shut up.

The half sister is a big mouth.

I feel sorry for the Royals. They must be wondering what on earth Harry was thinking bringing someone from this ghastly shower into the Royal family.

I guess Harry was just so besotted with the girl that he ignored any warning bells regarding her family. Unless of course, Meghan kept quiet about them, so Harry was in the dark about how awful they are.

Anyway, it's all wonderfully entertaining isn't it?!
What will the father say or do next?
Will the sister go ahead and write that 'tell all' book?
We probably won't have to wait long for the next Markle instalment!!

How has she proved anything , we know little of her

Poor Meghan! Her mum seemed dignified and intelligent at the wedding.
Paddyann objects that it is awful for people to disown their family and background, but I'm all for it if the family are melodramatic liars and parasites, as this sister and father seem to be. Disown away Meghan, say I! You are better than that and have proved it repeatedly.

How much contact did she have with her family before Harry and are they now all trying to jump on the bandwagon. I feel really sorry for her having such a family.

There is no reason for RF bashers to say anything at all about this situation other than perhaps to offer empathy to MM, we are all an accident of birth, many people have to deal with less than desirable relatives with alterior motives!

I am glad she is not my Dil. Only her mother at the wedding, who was on her own, she looked lost. At the end of the day her father doted on her and was always there for her from the film I saw on her upbringing, he was shown as a pleasant guy, supporting her. Her wedding was show business, her expensive wardrobe, six changes in one day, all designer, says a lot. She should see him you only get one father, she owes him that. I feel sorry for the guy, how else can he get to see her?

Meghan got herself out of her family's social class even before she became a duchess. Her mother is obviously clever and adaptable . It must be difficult for less able father and sister not to feel she has been disloyal to them. I think that it's a clear case for the duchess's minders to ameliorate the lives of her father and sister. They need some recognition whether they have earned it or not, especially the father.

She is certaintly doing what makes her happy and getting on with her new life, old family discarded , new family the windsors . Time will tell, I hope she is being honest, i don’t like having doubts about her.

I feel sorry for her. Hopefully she won't let it affect her too much.
Some of the things people have been writing online have been very harsh. A lot of sentences saying 'She should... or she ought to … ' I think she should do what would make her happy and get on with her new life.
He has made it very difficult for her because obviously can't risk contacting him now given that he disclosed details of his conversation with Harry. If she texted or wrote he can't be trusted to not sell them to the media. He has made his own bed.

or is the daughter who has effectively disowned them "trash" GabriellaG As I said before I know people who reinvented themselves and left their roots behind them....thats very sad.Ms Marke or duchess of whatever she 's called now isn't what I would want to be or my Daughter ...if you cant be proud of where you come from ..regardless of poverty or "disfunctional parenting" then its a sad day .
As to ANY woman who excludes her immediate family from her life ...well we've all seen the posts on here castigating those AC .Why is it different because of who she married ?

* put/exception. Sorry, typing too fast.

Harry should have kept his affections for someone whose family were least likely to out their heads above the parapet.
Meghan's family, with the e ception of her mother, are a disgrace.
Her father is using emotional blackmail to get her to contact him.
'Get in touch, otherwise the media interviews will continue'.
Slagging off our royals is uncalled for.
Threatening to turn up at the palace will get him nowhere.
I hope Harry has the gonads to tell Meghan to keep schtum but I'm sure that he would never prevent her from contacting her father if that was what she wanted.
Either way, her dad will have a loose tongue if money is flashed by the likes of the Sun and TMZ.
They would certainly want the A-Z IF Mr Markle were ever to meet her and/or Harry.
Now we read that the heart-attack > hospital > 3 stents op didn't happen.
The hospital said that 'no-one of that name (Markle) had ever been admitted)
Was that true or was Markle Snr admitted under another name?
They're just trash.

Anniebach
Dysfunctional. A word created by the media to portray a family the world had no knowledge off or pass judgement on until Prince Harry chose to marry one of their members..Strange is the word I too would chose for a person who did not want to introduce her father let alone the rest of her family to the man she was to marry.
What family would feel 'are we not good enough' when they had to learn from the press one of their relatives was to marry a prince. Harry phoned to ask for Meghan's hand in marriage ?.Who or what prevented him from making a personal visit ?What did he know of her family? They are not I fear, while the money keeps coming, in a hurry to go away.