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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has opened up about her estranged relationship with half-sister Samantha Markle in the highly-anticipated Netflix series, the first episodes of which aired on Thursday.
In the third episode of “Harry and Meghan,” the Duchess said she “truly” believed the UK media wanted her mother’s side of the family to be where the drama could “move.”
But her mother was “posh and calm” while her father’s side “acted differently”, Meghan said.
The program then cuts to newspaper articles quoting Markle, who made several appearances in UK and international media.
Meghan said: “My half-sister, who I hadn’t seen for over a decade, and that was only for a day and a half, suddenly it felt like she was everywhere.
“I don’t know your middle name. I don’t know your birthday. You’re telling these people you raised me and coined me ‘Princess Pushy,'” she added.
Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, and father, Thomas Markle, separated when Meghan was two years old, according to Ragland.
“I don’t remember seeing her as a child at my father’s house, if and when they came over,” Meghan said. “And then the last time I saw her, that I remember, was when I was in my twenties.
“I hadn’t had a problem with her. We didn’t have a closeness to be able to have that. And I wanted a sister,” he added.
A statement shown in the episode read: “Samantha Markle maintains that she and Meghan had a close relationship until 2018 and that the media fabricated dates attributed to her.”
Samantha Markle’s daughter Ashleigh Hale, who was raised and adopted by her grandparents, did speak in the Netflix documentary and expressed her closeness to Meghan.
“After the news (of Harry and Meghan’s relationship) first broke, Samantha started saying a lot of angry things about Meg to me. What they communicated to me was perhaps resentment,” Hale said.
She added that she and her mother stopped talking. “Some people you just can’t reason with,” he said.
More episodes of the documentary will be released on December 15.