Who Is Samantha Markle? Meghan Markle’s Half-sister And ‘Thorn In The Flesh’ Of The Royal Family

Since the love story between Meghan Markle and Prince Harry was made official, her estranged half-sister has frequently spoken out and made headlines with her comments about the royal couple.Here’s the lowdown on Samantha Markle, who has had plenty to say on Meghan’s nuptials. Mum-of-three Samantha Markle, also known as Samantha Grant, is a 53-year-old former actress and model, who lives in Florida, US. She shares a dad with her half-sister Meghan Markle.Their father, Thomas Markle, who knew about Meghan’s royal romance for as long as five months before the news came out, had recently become bankrupt, having once been a successful lighting director in America. In the past, Samantha has claimed to have raised Meghan for 12 years when she was growing up in California. However, other sources speculate that the pair had little to do with one another – and were raised completely separately. A Source once said: “As they were 17 years apart, they were never raised in the same house. Meghan was raised an only child by her loving parents.”Is Samantha Markle invited to the Royal Wedding? Samantha has not been invited to the Royal Wedding. In an interview, she said: “There are some members of the family who have an air of entitlement about even a wedding invite, I don’t understand why we didn’t get one but I don’t expect or demand one.” It has previously been reported that Samantha and Meghan have not spoken for the past decade. Just days before the ceremony, it was revealed that Samantha had slammed claims Kensington Palace was helping dad Thomas in hospital amid his health problems.Was Samantha Markle in a car crash? On May 16, Samantha was reportedly left in hospital after breaking her ankle and fracturing her knee in a car crash. She was understood to have been driving with her partner near their home in Florida when they smashed into a concrete barrier. Her boyfriend Mark told the media he had been behind the wheel and was apparently trying to avoid a photographer who had veered in front of them to take pictures. He said he swerved their vehicle to the left but smashed into the central reservation near a toll booth while the snapper allegedly fled the scene. Samantha’s foot was reportedly twisted backwards and Mark rushed to the hospital where she was being treated by doctors.Why is Samantha Markle in a wheelchair? Samantha was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008 and is now wheelchair-bound because of the condition. MS is an autoimmune condition. This means that the body’s immune system (designed to fight any infection or foreign body in your system) mistakes an area of the body for a threat and attacks it. Exactly what causes MS is unknown, but it is suggested that the condition occurs from a mixture of genetic and environmental factors.Photo Credit: Getty

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