After years of teasing, Meghan Markle's half-sister, Samantha, has released her memoir: Diary Of Princess Pushy's Sister. Samantha isn't thought to have seen Meghan since 2008, but that hasn't stop her from writing a book including chapters titled The Queen Would be Appalled and Looking For Mr Right The Wrong Way.
Also in the book - which has just been made available to buy in the UK- Samantha admits that she had a helping hand in setting up the paparazzi pictures of their father, Thomas, before Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding. Shortly after it was revealed the photos were staged by the Mail On Sunday, Thomas was in hospital after suffering from a heart attack. It meant that he missed Meghan's wedding.
'I got a call from someone offering to connect me with a photographer friend by the name of Jeff [Rayner], who promised to discreetly take photographs of my father, putting him in an honest light, because other photographers had been so disparaging, intentionally,' Samantha explains in the book, according to Newsweek.
'I received no money for the deal per my request, and the goal for my father was not money, because he had been turning down $50,000 interviews. It was just allowing the Royals and the world to see him in his proper light, because he was so horribly labeled and photographed.'
Samantha claims she asked the photographer to stay 100 yards away and be 'discreet' but was ignored, adding that she 'nearly choked' when she saw an article which revealed the photos had been staged. She wrote, 'When I saw some of the photographs, I was delighted, until I saw an article that said he "staged photographs".
'I nearly choked, when I saw photographs of the photographer walking three feet behind my father, as seen on an Internet cafe surveillance camera. I was guaranteed that he would not be visible, and I’m sure he knew that the camera was there on the ceiling, so I felt as though I had been baited, and so had my father. I was guaranteed it would be discreet, and then he publicly allowed himself to be seen walking 3 feet behind my father with the long lens camera, and furthermore, bragged about it on his Facebook page the following day.'
Samantha added, 'I sent an email to the photographer, letting him know that I was horribly upset by what had occurred, and he said that he would arrange "something" with my father that would make him happy, and that he would "fix the situation." The damage was done, and the thought of "fixing it" was tragicomedy at best.'
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