{"id":272781,"date":"2019-05-08T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1039763"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T20:22:17","slug":"youll-never-believe-how-meghan-markles-sister-samantha-reacted-to-baby-archies-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/youll-never-believe-how-meghan-markles-sister-samantha-reacted-to-baby-archies-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll Never Believe How Meghan Markle&#8217;s Sister Samantha Reacted to Baby Archie&#8217;s Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201948\/rs_1024x759-190508115932-1024.samantha-markle-meghan.ct.050819.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Samantha Markle, Meghan Markle\" alt=\"Samantha Markle, Meghan Markle\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Splash News; Yui Mok\/PA Wire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.789250353607\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.640735502122\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Well, this was royally unexpected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s estranged half-sister <strong>Samantha Markle<\/strong> has slammed the Duchess for being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/997401\/samantha-markle-shades-meghan-markle-and-fiercely-defends-their-father\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">insincere<\/a>, proclaimed she is&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/997097\/samantha-markle-slams-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-over-christmas-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incredibly rude<\/a>,&#8221; and even compared her to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/957621\/meghan-markle-s-half-sister-samantha-markle-compares-her-to-cruella-de-vil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cruella de Vil<\/a>. But now, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/royal_baby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">birth of Meghan&#8217;s son<\/a>&nbsp;with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_harry\">Prince Harry<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Archie<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor<\/strong>, Samantha is, well, uh, offering her well wishes. (We&#8217;re caught off guard, too.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Well, I love it,&#8221; the 54-year-old told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7002461\/Samantha-Markle-begs-Meghan-make-new-royal-baby-way-end-painful-family-rift.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>DailyMailTV<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;Family is family. What I think is incredible is that it&#8217;s a great moment historically and although the adults have a lot of water under the bridge, I would really like to see everyone reach out. We&#8217;ve extended the olive branch and now it is Meghan&#8217;s turn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.837772397094\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.8062953995157\">\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;We&#8217;re all welcoming the baby\u2014Markles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1034467\/meghan-markle-s-mom-doria-ragland-reportedly-arrives-in-london-as-due-date-nears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raglands<\/a>, Sussexes, Windsors,&#8221;&nbsp;continued Samantha.&nbsp;&#8220;In terms of the gene pool, we&#8217;ve all made a contribution to this wonderful little boy who will probably grow up to be an exceptional man and we&#8217;d like to treat this as if we&#8217;re all a big family. It would be nice not to react to what we&#8217;ve heard in the news but to personally meet him and let him judge us for himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Often one to shade her sister, Samantha added a jarringly sweet touch to her message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I want him to know he&#8217;s got a big family and he&#8217;s part of an amazing historical time and we&#8217;re excited for him,&#8221;&nbsp;she said.&nbsp;&#8220;We&#8217;re excited for Meg and Harry\u2014I am really excited for her. I love her, she&#8217;s my baby sister and it doesn&#8217;t matter what we&#8217;ve all said back and forth but she&#8217;s got to do the right thing. I just want to say Meg, you&#8217;ve got a world here and family here [in the U.S.] that&#8217;s excited for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.426966292135\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.269662921348\">\n<p>Alas, she did end on seemingly passive note, bringing up Meghan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1038726\/thomas-markle-reacts-to-meghan-markle-giving-birth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">estrangement from their dad<\/a>, <strong>Thomas Markle<\/strong>. (Before her May 2018 wedding, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/959565\/meghan-markle-s-dad-claims-he-lied-to-prince-harry-about-the-paparazzi-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staged paparazzi photos<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/935103\/meghan-markle-s-dad-suffers-a-heart-attack-plans-to-skip-the-royal-wedding-amid-paparazzi-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skipped her vows<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I want Meg to be part of his life, I want Meg to be able to share this beautiful time with him in whatever way she can,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s important for her too. I hope something sticks with her\u2014that she decided to do the right thing for my dad. Life is short and we&#8217;re family. I hope she decides to do the right thing this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.382789317507\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.3353115727\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Strangely enough, just two months ago,&nbsp;Samantha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1020162\/meghan-markle-s-half-sister-samantha-markle-slams-her-in-new-documentary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">took aim<\/a>&nbsp;at her half-sister while defending their dad.<\/span> <span class=\"s2\">&#8220;She doesn&#8217;t have a heart, or she would have been doing everything she could to make him comfortable and reciprocate and be loving and gracious and make sure he&#8217;s comfortable in his old age,&#8221; she said<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>in an interview for the U.K.&#8217;s Channel 5&nbsp;<em>Meghan and the Markles: A Family at War<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;So, broken heart? No, his heart&#8217;s broken. She can&#8217;t turn herself into the victim here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The following month, in the TLC special<\/span> <span class=\"s2\"><em>Meghan &amp; Harry: A Royal Baby Story<\/em><\/span><span class=\"s3\">, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029776\/meghan-markle-s-half-sister-samantha-lashes-out-in-tlc-s-new-royal-baby-special\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continued her tirade<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"s4\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t hurt people like this and then turn around and flip the script and play victim.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>Perhaps now the hatchet has been buried?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1039763\/you-ll-never-believe-how-meghan-markle-s-sister-samantha-reacted-to-baby-archie-s-birth?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splash News; Yui Mok\/PA Wire Well, this was royally unexpected. Meghan Markle&#8216;s estranged half-sister Samantha Markle has slammed the Duchess for being insincere, proclaimed she is&nbsp;&#8220;incredibly rude,&#8221; and even compared her to Cruella de Vil. But now, following the birth of Meghan&#8217;s son&nbsp;with Prince Harry,&nbsp;Archie&nbsp;Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, Samantha is, well, uh, offering her well wishes. 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