By Ashley Young-
Meghan Markle’s public image is facing an ongoing onslaught after her half brother Thomas Markle Jr made headlines once again for snubbing the Duchess of Sussex.
The 55-year-old window fitter has been making some noise ever since he was invited to take part in Australia’s celebrity big brother show. The show doesn’t kick off until another
Thomas Markle Jnr is using his half sister’s name to bring plenty of attention to himself- a smart trick which works, given the inevitable interest in what he has to say about the Duchess Of Sussex. It is no co-incidence that he managed to be selected for the show.
He could have a platform there almost as powerful as the one Meghan Markle had when she spoke to Oprah Winfrey last March, except that the Australian big brother house televised does not compare with an Oprah interview. It won’t stop his words going very far, especially if damaging.
Thomas Markle Junior’s views could be purely borne out of jealousy, or they could be accurately true. He will have the best interests of his father in hos general take on the Duchess Of Sussex, and this could get really twisty.
Viewers will use their judgement in deciding. We are all now welcome to the world of bomb shell revelations, with the arm chair viewer the judge of what actually happened.
The world will be itching to hear what he has to say about her that hasn’t already been said, which could potentially be damaging for Meghan Markle’s image, or which force her to address some of the things he says, depending on what they are. His bitterness against his half sister is evident in the limited words we have heard from him.
Thomas revealed in an add for the show that he warned Prince Harry his “shallow” sister would “ruin his life” in a trailer for Australia’s Big Brother VIP – where he is participating as a contestant in his own push for fame.
Thomas Markle Jnr Image:news.com.au
The warning he says he gave Prince Harry generates a ‘no smoke without fire’ kind of suspicion, as to why he would be condemning of her if there wasn’t something about her to be loathed.
Tail
The Duchess Of Sussex has so much rotten material chasing her tail from her own family, she must wish she had a magic wand to shut them all up and just make them disappear from her life.
Thomas Markle Jnr has in the past branded his sister a “bully”, and criticized her Frogmore Cottage renovations. He doesn’t like his half sister at all, leading to the obvious question of why? People can fairly ask why Meghan Markle’s family are so against her and were estranged for many years leading up to her union with Prince Harry.
The fault could be on the side of her half of the family, but could also be with her.
Thomas Markle Jnr himself worsens the perception of the family name with his behaviour, especially as it is his connection to Meghan by blood that made show producers even consider him for the show, all at Meghan’s expense.
Now, the world will wait to hear how Markle Jnr thrashes his sister’s name in the big brother’s house and potentially further stains Meghan’s image much to the delight of her many critics.
Rightly or wrongly, the opinion of those who have known an individual deeply never falls on deaf ears, even where there is another side to the story. Meghan has her weaknesses, and her critics too.
The potential for the whole saga to end up being a family mess in which both half siblings come out looking really bad is high. Just one of them looking bad will spare the Markle family name potential further damage. Handling and fending off the opposition coming from her own family could prove one of Meghan’s biggest challenges in public life.
Meghan Markle’s half sister , Samantha is actively critical of her, and her intimate conflict with her father is open knowledge. Even he wants a public platform to say his piece. The intense conflict and disorder calls for a level of control that seems distant.
Meghan Markle’s half sister: Samantha Markle Pic: towncountrymag.com
His express of surprise he was left out of the wedding, suggests is thoughts he was close enough to be invited. How he works that out is the baffling issue, because he once said he was actually “baffled” that he did not receive a wedding invite; one he described as a “fake fairy tale” and wanted cancelled.
In 2019 Thomas told The Mirror : “I’m confused and a little distraught because here is a person knowing the position she’s in and knowing the scrutiny she’s under and yet she has forgotten her flesh and blood.
The flesh and blood argument always runs deep because they say ‘you can choose your friends, but you can’t chose your family’. The inside story of why some families can harbour so much bitterness and venom against one another will always be interesting when about high profile individuals.
In real life society, split families with high dislike is nothing new, unfortunate and undesirable as it is. They are also not the norm, leaving it a big wonder who actually went wrong in the destruction of the family.
Thomas Markle Jnr will be judged according to the way he presents himself and how what he says is perceived by the public. A full blown family battle on the open public stage may be waiting if the fame chaser launches a scathing and believable attack against his half sister.
If his elderly father is waiting in the wings to attack his daughter, then Meghan Markle could find herself in a full loaded internal war. Public perception of what happens is all that would matter then.