'SHOCKING & HURTFUL'
Meghan Markle’s sister rubbishes racism claims and mocks her ‘fake British accent’
MEGHAN MARKLE'S half sister has rubbished claims the Duchess of Sussex faced racism in the UK - and mocked the former actress for her "fake" British accent.
Samantha Markle said she believed Meghan had initially enjoyed her new role as a royal after marrying Prince Harry but the script "suddenly flipped" when the couple came under criticism.
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And Meghan's half-sister insisted she wanted the duchess to apologise to their father, Thomas Markle - although revealed she doubted a reconciliation would come anytime soon.
Speaking to This Morning, Samantha said she had noticed a change in Meghan, 38, after she initially appeared to enjoy life in the spotlight after marrying Prince Harry.
She said: "I feel and it appeared outwardly that she did enjoy it.
"There was the quote "Fab Four", and the photographs of her hair blowing in the wind and the smiling and the waving and the, you know, contrived British accent.
"It was all seemingly great and wonderful then but when the public began to criticise some of the expenditures and behaviour and protocol that had been broken, the tune changed."
Royals fans had previously commented on how Meghan's accent had appeared to change during her time in the UK - with some theorising she had taken elocution lessons.
And the Duke and Duchess of Sussex came under scrutiny after it was revealed £2.4m of taxpayer money had been paid to refurbish their Frogmore Cottage home.
They were also criticised for their use of private planes, despite encouraging the need to be environmentally focused.
Samantha added today: "It became a bit more of an attribution error of avoiding accountability and suddenly flipping the script.
"It's quite shocking and hurtful that the issue of racism would come out. I didn't see anything that was ever racist in nature.
"It seemed like a misplacement of blame to avoid accountability for many things."
'NO RECONCILIATION'
And Samantha said she feared there was no future reconciliation on the cards between Meghan and her dad Thomas.
She said: "I don't see a reconciliation at this time, there's too much water under the bridge.
"It it was a matter of miscommunication or just erroneous misunderstanding that would be one thing but there seems to be a lot of deliberate ignoring and disregard of the family."
Instead, Samantha - speaking from America - said she would like to see an apology from Meghan to their father.
She said: "I really feel Prince harry and Meghan have quite a bit of apologising to do.
"We aren't talking about teenagers. It's adults who I believe knew exactly what they were doing."
She added: "She's progressively behaved in ways I thought were inconsistent with the definition of humanitarian."
The Duchess of Sussex is also currently embroiled in a legal battle with a national newspaper - suing the Mail on Sunday for damages after it published a leaked letter she wrote to Thomas three months after her May 2018 wedding.
The case might see the father and daughter have to appear in court to settle the matter.
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