{"id":17805,"date":"2017-12-03T01:11:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T00:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/03\/meghan-markles-handy-a-z-guide-to-her-new-family-catherine-bennett\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T00:11:26","slug":"meghan-markles-handy-a-z-guide-to-her-new-family-catherine-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=17805","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s handy A-Z guide to her new family | Catherine Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much attention has been paid to the Markle background but what about the rum lot that make up Harry\u2019s 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\u2019s fiancee.To date, in the absence of any evidence of scandal or wrongdoing, pressing questions include: how did descendants of Mattie Turnipseed, Markle\u2019s great-great-great-grandmother, rise, within 150 years, from slavery to royal duties? Does Markle\u2019s half-sister, Samantha, regret saying mean things? And just who, it\u2019s being asked, is Thomas Markle Junior, Markle\u2019s half-brother, who allegedly (charges were never pressed) held a gun to his girlfriend\u2019s head? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/dec\/03\/meghan-markle-a-z-guide-to-her-new-family\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle\u2019s handy A-Z guide to her new family | Catherine Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much attention has been paid to the Markle background but what about the rum lot that make up Harry\u2019s 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}