It begins with my life, my family, my love of theatre and television and how I got there,” said Markle, father to Meghan and the book-writing Samantha. “Then my life with Meghan, growing up, her school days until she went off to college, and when her career began.” Over the five years since Meghan Markle ascended from barely recognisable actress to Duchess of Sussex, you might have formed certain opinions about the Markle family — in particular, Meghan’s father, Thomas, and half-sibling, Samantha. You may, for example, think of them as the kind of trashy people who would sell staged paparazzi photos of themselves, pass private correspondence to newspapers and call Meghan “Princess Pushy” to journalists. Promising readers that the ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ she also recounts their upbringing and the rivalries between the pair when their father was still married to Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland. According to an insider, Meghan Markle is quite upset by news of Samantha’s book, but “won’t act bothered in public.”

Inside Samantha Markle’s memoir about half-sister, Meghan Inside Samantha Markle’s memoir about half-sister, Meghan

She continued: "Everything the public thought was going on behind the scenes, was a social construct taken from fragments of gossip."

Samantha Markle, who has multiple sclerosis, also explained why she had decided to write the memoir. ‘It was a “Catch 22” situation, and as we all had bills to pay, and I am living with disability, I decided that when it was appropriate, and what I had to say seemed to have social utility, why should I not be compensated? Speaking with Newsweek, Samantha insisted, "How could they possibly know what's in my book if they haven't read it? Because of a title? We all know you can't judge a book by its title or cover. Most reasonable and intelligent people, across generations, will find value in my book.” Unfortunately, Thomas Sr. and Doria’s marriage didn’t last long and they divorced in 1987. While Meghan and Thomas Sr. maintained their close bond throughout most of her adult life, the father-daughter duo had a falling out shortly before Meghan’s royal wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018 and have been estranged ever since. Their relationship was put under the spotlight around the time Meghan’s engagement to Harry was announced in 2017. She writes: ‘Our lives have not always been easy, and no one is perfect. We have, laughed, agreed, disagreed, and forgiven each other, which is what makes families so special’.

What we know about The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister Part

Meghan’s father participated in a documentary about his famous daughter last year, but hopes that this new effort will provide viewers a more “complete” picture. The tell-all of the century. Samantha Markle has been very vocal about her sister, Meghan Markle, ever since she was catapulted into the spotlight after she started dating Prince Harry in July 2016. Now, Samantha is revealing never-before-heard details about Meghan’s life before becoming a royal in her book, The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister: Part 1.

Samantha’s PR push about her book occurs just as news emerges that the father she shares with Meghan, Thomas Markle, is making a documentary about his life and his daughter. According to the description of the book in its press release, she claims that when it comes to Meghan ‘things are not always as they seem’ and sometimes the ‘truth is stranger than fiction’. Considering Samantha heard this “through the grapevine,” it should probably be taken with a massive grain of salt. Either way, Meghan clearly wants to keep her relationship with her father private, so moving on. Markle is suing them for publishing the contents of an anguished letter she sent to her father after her wedding, before which he blabbed about her to the media and conspired with paparazzo to stage fake candids of himself.