Meghan Markle’s handy A-Z guide to her new family | Catherine Bennett

Much attention has been paid to the Markle background but what about the rum lot that make up Harry’s kin?After the Meghan-Harry engagement various media outlets composed Markle family trees featuring key facts about the ancestors and living relations who are believed, whether due to humble birth or marital breakdown, careless talk or overt upward mobility, to tell us something significant about the prince’s fiancee.To date, in the absence of any evidence of scandal or wrongdoing, pressing questions include: how did descendants of Mattie Turnipseed, Markle’s great-great-great-grandmother, rise, within 150 years, from slavery to royal duties? Does Markle’s half-sister, Samantha, regret saying mean things? And just who, it’s being asked, is Thomas Markle Junior, Markle’s half-brother, who allegedly (charges were never pressed) held a gun to his girlfriend’s head? Continue reading…
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