If there is one thing that I know about the British Royal family it is that everything that they do and that the extended families do are under a microscope. It’s one of those strange fascinations that people have about them.
In all honesty, I am not exactly sure what they do. All they really are at this point are figureheads. Look at it this way, Ronald McDonald is the figurehead in the McDonald’s commercials but they don’t let him set the price of Big Macs.
Since the moment Prince Harry announced his engagement to divorced American actress, Meghan Markle, there’s been nothing but controversy that’s come from the couple – mostly has Markle past emerges in pieces.
If she thought her secrets would be safe and she’d skate into the royal family with flying colors, getting by on her beaming smile – she was sorely mistaken.
Markle’s fiance is in line to the throne and the Queen isn’t letting anyone or anything into her family without undergoing extensive scrutiny. This has led to the revelation if what Markle’s been hiding and now an arrest.
The picture of perfection and elegance that this couple has portrayed over the last few weeks as they flaunt their love for each other from the states to the Royal Palace, has now been shattered as it seems like it was a front for something else.
The American actress does what she’s apparently pretty good at and that’s pretending to be someone she isn’t.
When it was revealed who the soon-to-be princess’ father was, many people were taken aback by his recluse lifestyle at his home in Mexico – far from London.
It seemed impossible that this man would be rubbing shoulders with the royal family and that he would be able to maintain any level of proper etiquette expected around the Queen or at a royal affair such as a wedding.
The fact that Harry went rogue and picked a person without a pedigree was strange but celebrated since he was doing things his own way.
However, it’s not her father or even her stepsister who is in the crosshairs of the queen, it’s her equally obscure stepbrother and his fiancee who were just caught.
It’s hard to believe that Markle shares a parent with her half-brother since they look like complete opposites and seemingly act as such too. But what else is Markle “hiding” that’s bound to come out before her royal wedding in May?
The Daily Mail reports: Meghan Markle’s half-brother Tom Markle has blamed his drunken New Year’s Eve brawl with his fiancee on the pressure and scrutiny caused by his sister’s engagement.
The flare-up in their Oregon home led to Tom’s fiancee Darlene Blount being thrown into jail for two nights for assault.
Tom has blamed the pressure of being in the public eye for his woes, saying: “It hasn’t been easy. Meghan’s relationship with Prince Harry has shone a spotlight on our family. It doesn’t help when you have issues and your sister is engaged to Royalty. It adds a whole new level of scrutiny.”
And Tom – who was last year arrested for brandishing a gun at his fiancee during another drunken fracas – says they will both attend alcohol and relationship counseling.
“We’ve been under a lot of stress because of all the attention. At some point you find yourself drinking too much to escape the pressure.”
Tom vowed last night to ‘seek help’ after the drunken confrontation.
The Prince has his PR work cut out for him on behalf of his wife and the misfit family she’s bringing into the “perfect” picture.
He’s already slammed his soon-to-be father in law and Markle’s family in claiming that she never had a family.
While they may not be perfect and far from royalty, they were very close, according to Markle’s half-sister Samantha Markle.
Samantha countered the Prince’s claim with the facts of her and Meghan’s upbringing that was different than the soon-to-be princess is saying now.
It seems like Meghan is making her family life sound different than it was presumably out of embarrassment for her rather average American upbringing – and also to separate herself from the drama.
Considering how things went down in Oregon leading to the drunken arrest, Meghan has some face to save if she want to impress the Queen.
