Two weeks after the happy couple announced their royal engagement at Kensington Palace, one of Meghan Markle's closest relatives says she's still waiting for her wedding invite.
Details about Prince Harry's upcoming wedding to the TV star are beginning to trickle out as the big day approaches. We've learned about the traditions they'll follow, the expected date and location, and what this wedding means for Markle's future. But it seems there's either more planning to be done, or someone close to Markle has been left out of the ceremony.
In a new TLC documentary called When Harry Met Meghan: A Royal Engagement, the future Duchess's half-sister Samantha Grant talks openly about her relationship with Markle.
Markle's parents are Thomas Markle, a cinematographer and lighting director who introduced her to show business, and Doria Ragland, a clinical therapist and yoga instructor. Grant is Thomas's daughter from a previous relationship, and she is 17 years older than Markle.
Grant says that she helped to raise her half-sister while Markle was growing up in California, and remembers Markle as a bright and thoughtful girl, who seemed destined to become a royal someday.
But Grant's history of speaking out to the media may have driven a wedge between her and Markle.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain just hours after the engagement was announced, Grant only had good things to say about Markle and her future husband.
"It's so charming and so warm. When I watch her with him it's very real and normal," she said. "We only get that once in a lifetime if we're lucky. It's not about royalty so much as it is about love and that's wonderful for them."
But in the past, Grant has been a little too outspoken about her famous sibling. The Sun quoted her calling Markle a "shallow social climber" last year, but Grant has since denied the comments. "I never said those words," she insists. "The truth is I never said any such thing."
Despite what Grant says, she also admits the comments may have "created a divide between Meghan and I...I was just hurt."
And while she hasn't received an invitation to the wedding yet, Grant also admits that she would feel out of place in the media frenzy created by a royal wedding.
"It's just so silly. We're so normal. And yes, I would love to go, but we have no idea what's going to happen."
Grant might lose any chance she has of attending the big day is she goes ahead with her plan to publish her tell-all memoir, which the Daily Star reported is titled The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister.
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[H/T: Closer Weekly]