We all judged the Markle family when there was interview after interview from Meghan Markle’s estranged half brother and sister attempting to steal Meghan’s limelight.<\/p>\n
There was also the day Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle staged paparazzi photos which he addressed in his Good Morning Britain<\/em> interview. <\/p>\n\n In the run-up to the wedding in May, Thomas secretly teamed up with Los Angeles-based photographer Jeff Rayner to fake lucrative pictures of himself preparing for the big day, such as snaps showing him looking at news reports about his daughter’s wedding on a computer and getting measured for a suit for the ceremony.<\/p>\n Thomas explained that he wanted to change his image because the paparazzi kept taking “derogatory” photos of him.<\/p>\n “I thought this would be a nice way of me improving my look.<\/em><\/p>\n “Well obviously that all went to hell. <\/em><\/p>\n “And I feel bad about it, I apologised for it and that’s all I can do. <\/em><\/p>\n “I can’t do much beyond that. That was a mistake… I didn’t do this for money, I did this to change my image.<\/em><\/p>\n “I spoke to them both and I apologised. <\/em><\/p>\n “I realised it was a serious mistake.. But hard to take it back… <\/em><\/p>\n “They were very forgiving, it wasn’t that difficult. Both Harry and Meghan were very forgiving about it.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The incident didn’t derail plans for him to attend the ceremony in Windsor, England and Meghan had organised everything for him, including suit fittings, help with a speech, and someone to look after him in England, so Thomas “feels bad” that he had to pull out after having major heart surgery.<\/p>\n His ex-wife Doria Ragland was subsequently the only member of her family to attend the service, and Thomas said she did “very well”<\/em> but he wishes she was sitting with someone in St George’s Chapel.<\/p>\n Explaining why the Markles didn’t get invites, he said: <\/p>\n “Basically some 40\/50\/60 Markles came out of the woodwork all asking for invitations to the wedding and Meghan probably had the good sense to invite none because she would have offended the others.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n At the end of the candid interview, the 73-year-old explained that he just wanted to set the record straight over negative stories written about him.<\/p>\n “More than anything I don’t want my daughter or my new son-in-law to be hurt by this. <\/em><\/p>\n “I just want to have a nice normal relationship with my royal family as well now.” <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n WENN<\/em><\/p>\n IMAGE CREDIT: Good Morning Britain<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Also why the Markles weren’t invited to the wedding…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,209],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-entertainment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n