{"id":264397,"date":"2018-12-30T20:39:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1000272"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:39:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:39:39","slug":"meghan-markles-sister-samantha-markle-on-polices-fixated-persons-list-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/meghan-markles-sister-samantha-markle-on-polices-fixated-persons-list-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s Sister Samantha Markle on Police&#8217;s &#8220;Fixated Persons List&#8221;: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.136029411765\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018416\/rs_634x1024-180516160904-634-samantha-markle-meghan-markle-sister.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Samantha Markle Grant\" alt=\"Samantha Markle Grant\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Splash News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.630239520958\">\n<p><strong>Samantha Markle<\/strong>&#8216;s outspoken words about her half-sister <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong> have landed her in some hot water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/police-guard-meghan-from-sniping-by-fixated-sister-samantha-markle-sj9jczvj7\" target=\"_blank\">According to\u00a0<em>The Times U.K.<\/em><\/a>, the police royalty and specialty protection unit put Samantha on what is called a &#8220;fixated persons list&#8221; due to her &#8220;reputational risk&#8221; on the royals.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times<\/em> reports that Meghan&#8217;s personal officers spoke with Scotland Yard&#8217;s\u00a0Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (FTAC) about Samantha and the consequences of what would happen if she tried to reach out to the Duchess of Sussex in person again.<\/p>\n<p>FTAC&#8217;s site explains their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixatedthreat.com\/ftac-welcome.php\" target=\"_blank\">purpose is to assess<\/a>\u00a0and manage the risks from lone individuals who harass, stalk or threaten public figures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"51.007389162562\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.9162561576355\">\n<p>The 57-year-old traveled to England in October and tried delivering a letter to Meghan at Kensington Palace. However, she was reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/974631\/meghan-markle-s-sister-samantha-markle-turned-away-by-palace-security-reports\" target=\"_blank\">turned down by palace security<\/a>. Before her attempted t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with Meghan, Samantha\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/972847\/meghan-markle-s-half-sister-travels-to-london-only-to-be-shunned\" target=\"_blank\">went on public television<\/a>\u00a0and said the purpose of her trip was to &#8220;sort of speak the wishes and thoughts and sentiments of my father, and hopefully get a message to my sister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"20\">\n<p>A Scotland Yard source explained to\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em> about what Samantha&#8217;s placement on this list means for herself and the royals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t protect someone like the Duchess of Sussex without knowing the background of her family,&#8221; the source said<em>.<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;But someone like Samantha presents a risk rather than a threat. She is not committing criminal offences, but she is causing concerns for the royal family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Scotland Yard insider added, &#8220;There is big potential for some major embarrassment for the royals. Samantha could make a scene and create headlines with her actions \u2014 and let&#8217;s face it she&#8217;s kind of already done that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The insider has a point. Samantha has repeatedly taken to Twitter to criticize the Duchess and defend their ailing 74-year-old father, <strong>Thomas Markle<\/strong>. Neither Samantha nor Thomas attended the royal wedding in May, and she has let her feelings about the royal couple be known.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.937219730942\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20181126\/rs_634x1024-181226120845-634-meghan-markle-christmas.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Meghan Markle, Christmas Day \" alt=\"Meghan Markle, Christmas Day \"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Joe Giddens\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"25.205479452055\">\n<p>In September for instance, she likened\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_harry\">Prince Harry<\/a><\/strong> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/968784\/meghan-markle-s-half-sister-samantha-markle-compares-prince-harry-to-a-hamster-in-birthday-tweet\" target=\"_blank\">hamster while wishing him a happy birthday<\/a> on Twitter. Their father is the common denominator in the majority, if not all, of her fiery tweets to Meghan.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 17, Samantha tweeted about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/997401\/samantha-markle-shades-meghan-markle-and-fiercely-defends-their-father\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan&#8217;s lack of communication with Thomas<\/a> (who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994682\/thomas-markle-says-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-have-put-up-a-wall-of-silence\" target=\"_blank\">has a lot to say about the subject<\/a> as well). &#8220;This woman thinks it&#8217;s cool to ghost an entire family, best friend of 30 years, ex-husband who treated her very well, and trade everyone out for the Royals and Clooneys,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In October, she called the former\u00a0<em>Suits<\/em> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/980229\/samantha-markle-calls-meghan-markle-a-liar-after-fiji-speech\" target=\"_blank\">a &#8220;liar&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0after making a speech in Fiji where she spoke about paying for her education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have been a few instances where an olive branch was\u00a0<em>sort of<\/em> extended. On Oct. 17, Samantha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/978069\/samantha-markle-apologizes-to-pregnant-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-for-past-tension\" target=\"_blank\">congratulated Meghan and Prince Harry<\/a> on their pregnancy news. She told <em>DailyMailTV<\/em>, &#8220;I&#8217;m so excited, I&#8217;m so happy for you and I really, really am sorry for any of the past tension and confusion and misunderstandings and asinine things I&#8217;ve said when I just didn&#8217;t understand what was going on and I wanted things to work out for my dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.922196796339\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.29061784897\">\n<p>That time of peace was short-lived like most other times there seemed to be a detente. Most recently, Samantha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/997097\/samantha-markle-slams-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-over-christmas-card\" target=\"_blank\">insulted the Duke and Duchess&#8217; Christmas card photo<\/a>, which showed a never-before-seen snapshot of them from their wedding day. &#8220;Interesting that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have their backs turned.\u00a0Is this towards the world or just the Ragland and Markle family? It&#8217;s a bit sad. Face the Christmas spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Days later, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/999357\/samantha-markle-retracts-christmas-greeting-to-meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\">retracted her Christmas greeting<\/a> to Meghan. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anyone so rude and hurtful and heartless and absent a soul in my life. #MeghanMarkle #SamanthaMarkle shame on you for what you have done to our father,&#8221; she wrote on Twitter on Christmas day.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>The Times<\/em>, Samantha begs to differ about the &#8220;risk&#8221; that she now reportedly poses. She told the paper, &#8220;I would only say that is ludicrous. I&#8217;m not a reputational risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! 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The Times reports that Meghan&#8217;s personal officers spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 04:26:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}