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Meghan Markle‘s family drama ropes in the royals once again as Samantha Markle misrepresents her sister’s husband Prince Harry in a lawsuit. The Markle family drama has prevailed long before Meghan’s marriage into the royal family. However, the days leading up to her 2018 royal wedding highlighted their strained family dynamics with Meghan’s dad Thomas Markle‘s disturbing media antics, which the royal family frowned upon, and her half-sister’s bashful remarks condemning her for not inviting her to the wedding and even exempting her daughter Ashleigh from it as well.
Before the watchful gaze of the public, this rift has only deepened, with claims that the Duchess of Sussex has “ostracized” her dad from her life despite his desire to see his royal grandkids, and possibly reconcile with his daughter. On the other hand, Meghan Markle’s sister Samantha seemingly has no desire for reconciliation, opting instead to pursue her desired justice with a recurring lawsuit against Prince Harry and his wife.
In their Netflix docuseries Harry and Meghan released in December 2022, the Duchess touched on her strained relationship with her sister, and how it ultimately affected her close bond with Ashleigh Hale, Samantha’s estranged biological daughter. Samantha Markle has since condemned some of Meghan’s claims about her in the documentary, even filing a lawsuit against her alleging defamation.
Samantha Markle’s Team Makes Another Royal Blunder in Defamation Lawsuit
In her latest lawsuit, Meghan Markle’s half-sister Samantha Markle referred to Prince Harry as “the Prince of Wales,” a title held by his brother Prince William. News outlets quickly pointed out this misrepresentation, forcing Samantha’s legal team to step up in defense of the apparent error. Speaking to Newsweek, Patrick Tickin, Samantha’s attorney justified the mistaken identity noted in the lawsuit with more savage remarks against Prince Harry. He fired,
“To most of us, Americans, we couldn’t give a tinker’s damn as to whether that prince is the Duke of Wales, the Duke of Sussex to the Duke of Earl. In fact, I wish I could say it was simply a spelling mistake when he should have been the Duke of Wails.”
Tickin went on to challenge Prince Harry’s involvement with The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder, tasked with mitigating the dissemination of false news in the online space. He pointed out the irony in the Duke being “one of 16 governors” who decide which statements should be tagged as misinformation, despite seemingly believing that the United States 1st Amendment, which protects the Freedom of Speech, is “Bonkers.” According to the attorney, this only goes to show that Harry possibly has a secret agenda to exert control over free speech. He divulged,
“So, this foreigner, if we ever gave out titles in America, should be known as the Minister of Fiction. This Duke is here as our guest, and his goal seems to be to control our speech.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Deemed Pretenders Following Title Mixup
Going further, Samantha Markle’s legal rep condemned Harry and Meghan’s endeavors to protect children from internet harm, describing the “Sussex squad” as “the evil which Harry pretends to be against.”
This is hardly the first time Samantha Markle’s legal team has made an erroneous representation in their libel lawsuit against Meghan Markle. Months back, the Duchess’ legal team called out her sister for failing to use her royal title in the court documents while suing her over the supposed defamatory statements in her infamous Oprah Winfrey interview, and the Netflix documentary, Harry and Meghan.
In the lawsuit, Samantha’s team repeatedly referred to the Duchess by her pre-marital name, Meghan Markle, rather than her official moniker, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. Meghan’s team took a swipe at this oversight in a court statement, noting she was “erroneously sued as ‘Meghan Markle,” per Newsweek. Notably, Samantha lost her initial case against her sister at the Federal Court in Florida but has since resurrected her defamation claims at the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. One thing that remains unchanged, though, is her lack of concern for observing the royal lingo and formalities when it comes to addressing her sister.
