The first three episodes of the Harry and Meghan documentary were released today, Thursday December 8, on Netflix. The opportunity for the Duchess of Sussex to make many revelations, including the reason why her niece whom she considers “like a little sister” could not attend her wedding.
All fans of the couple Harry and Meghan were able to discover today exclusively the first three episodes of the documentary dedicated to the couple on Netflix. A report edited in such a way that the testimonies of the couple intertwine with testimonies of relatives. There are also many close friends of the couple as well as Meghan’s family, including her mother, Doria Ragland and her niece Ashleigh Hale.
Ashleigh Hale is the daughter of Meghan’s half-sister, Samantha Grant (they have the same father). It is in episode three of the mini documentary series that we meet the young woman. She explains that despite an almost non-existent relationship between her mother and her aunt, she has forged a very strong bond with Meghan. “There’s a sister element, there’s something maternal, she’s a best friend, she’s a bit of everything”, she says in the documentary. Raised by her paternal grandparents since the age of 2, she reconnected with her mother, Samantha, in 2007, it was from there that she also began to communicate with her aunt.
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A sister-to-sister relationship
It is little by little that the two young women get to know each other. At first by exchanging emails, then by long hours on the phone and numerous texts each week until the Suits actress decided to take her niece on vacation to New Orleans. She says about the girl in the episode: “I think we both wanted the same thing, I wanted a sister and she was like a little sister. » That’s why when she found out she couldn’t invite her niece to her wedding to Prince Harry, it was very ” sore “ for Archie and Lilibeth’s mom.
Indeed, Ashleigh Hale was removed from the guest list by the management team handling the wedding. The reason for this withdrawal? His mother Samantha not being invited: “How to explain that his half-sister is not invited to the wedding when his own daughter is? » They therefore preferred to give advice not to bring the young girl to the wedding. Ashleigh Hale was also hurt and disappointed that she couldn’t attend. She also sheds a few tears when explaining the facts in the episode, but the young girl says she understands why they had to make this decision.