The decision was made because her niece’s mother, Meghan’s half-sister Samantha Markle, was critical of the royal couple in the media and not invited.
The Palace told Meghan Markle not to invite her niece to her royal wedding to Prince Harry, the Duchess of Sussex said in the new Netflix docuseries. The six-part show, which gives an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the royal couple’s lives, dropped the first three episodes Thursday; the final three will be released on Dec. 15.
“How do we explain that this half-sister isn't invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister's daughter is?” Meghan asked. “And so with Ashleigh, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding.” She spoke about the difficult phone call with her niece. “I was in the car with [Harry] and I called her and I had her on speakerphone and we talked her through what guidance we were being given and why this assessment was made and — and that's painful.
“I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from,” she said, with tears in her eyes. “To know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship that's so important to me was impacted in that way. Because of [Markle] it was taken away — it's been hard.”
The relationship between aunt and niece began when Hale reached out to reconnect with her maternal family. “I remember my dad saying to me, ‘Samantha found her daughter,’” Meghan said. The two began emailing and quickly formed a bond, soon talking with each other “several days a week” and going on vacations together.
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