Meghan Markle has had no contact with her father Thomas Markle since the wedding to Prince Harry. In her new book, British aristocrat Lady Colin Campbell raises an interesting theory about the reason for the breakage of the Markles. But from the beginning.
Meghan Markle: pre-wedding drama with Prince Harry
Just seven days before Meghan Markle, 38, and Prince Harry, 35, say yes in the St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, the British newspaper "Daily Mail" causes an international scandal: "Royal Wedding Fraudsters! " berates the father of the bride Thomas Markle, 75, on May 12, 2018 and reveals that the former Hollywood lighting technician has secretly staged and circulated photos with a paparazzo. The reason for the fake: Markle feels put in a bad light by the media and wants to rehabilitate himself with the recordings of alleged wedding preparations. The beginning of the end: According to Thomas Markle, three days after the headline, Meghan breaks off the contact. Except for a letter the Duchess of Sussex wrote him the following August, he never heard from her or Harry again.
Why does Duchess Meghan end contact with Thomas Markle?
Nobody disputes that Thomas Markle embarrassed his daughter Meghan and the British royal family with the paparazzo photos. Still, many Britons would be surprised at the disproportionality between Markle's "offense" and Meghan's reaction, writes Lady Colin Campbell, 70, in her new book "Meghan and Harry: The Real Story".
"People (…) wanted to know how a daughter had let her father drop like this (…). Especially since she (Meghan) always said that he was an excellent father." Although Meghan had had no idea of the paparazzi scandal surrounding Thomas Markle, she could have taken advantage of it.
Meghan has secrets – and it is important to protect them
Campbell said that she had asked around the people involved and came to the conclusion that Meghan had no choice but to break with her father. The alleged reason: Meghan wanted to keep parts of her past and personality secret from Harry and therefore bought a facade. "The Meghan in the present is not the same person as the Meghan in the past. As a Canadian (known to Meghan) said, the only thing the two Meghans had in common is their bodies," Campbell writes.
The former actress fooled Harry into leading a harder life than it actually was, Campbell says. For example, no one in Meghan's environment had told her that she had been racist in the past. And Meghan's claim that she had to finance her studies herself was also untrue. Father Thomas paid the fees. But why the whole hype before Harry? Campbell: "Meghan is an actress for a reason. She understands the drama and values its value. She is intelligent and talented enough to know that a theatrical narrative is more compelling than a boring one."
"The worst scenario for Meghan would have been …"
According to Campbell, if Meghan has actually made herself more interesting than she is, the plan worked out: Harry especially loves Meghan for the strength with which she mastered the supposed challenges in her life. Meghan tries to protect the gap between reality and fiction vehemently. According to Campbell, one reason why Harry was never allowed to meet his father-in-law personally.
"The worst scenario for Meghan would have been that father and fiance got along so well that Daddy had given Harry enough information to realize that Flower (Thomas Markle's nickname for Meghan, editor's note) was not out of that (strong) steel that Harry thought it was. "
Nikki Priddy, who met Meghan as a child in the early 1980s and was one of her closest friends until about 2013, explains in "Meghan and Harry: A Real Story:" As soon as Meghan decides that you are not part of her life, she can be very cold become. It is this shutdown mechanism that she had. There is nothing to negotiate. She made her decision and that's it. "An attitude that Thomas Markle could have fallen victim to.
Source used: "Meghan and Harry: The Real Story" by Lady Colin Campbell was published on June 25, 2020 in the "Dynasty Press" publishing house as an e-book – so far only in English. The hardcover book will be published on July 28th.
This article originally appeared on Gala.de.