{"id":154936,"date":"2025-03-10T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/meghan-duchess-of-sussex-branded-inauthentic-by-dad\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T11:00:38","slug":"meghan-duchess-of-sussex-branded-inauthentic-by-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/meghan-duchess-of-sussex-branded-inauthentic-by-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan, Duchess of sussex branded &#8216;inauthentic&#8217; by dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-03-10\" datetime=\"1741604438\" pubdate=\"\">10 March 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been branded &#8220;inauthentic&#8221; by her estranged father.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Thomas Markle criticised his daughter Meghan, Duchess of Sussex<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old former actress&#8217; new Netflix lifestyle series, &#8216;With Love, Meghan&#8217;, premiered last week and while Thomas Markle &#8211; who has had no contact with his daughter since before she married <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/prince-harry\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> in 2018 &#8211; hasn&#8217;t seen the show in full, he hasn&#8217;t been impressed by the clips he&#8217;s seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Mail on Sunday newspaper: &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen the show but I&#8217;ve seen a ton of clips and I&#8217;ve read many stories. I might sit down and watch it one day but I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cooking show are horrendously boring unless the presenter has a passion for it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to be authentic to hold people&#8217;s attention. When you are stuffing the turkey&#8217;s a*** it has to look like you&#8217;re having fun doing it. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Unfortunately Meghan has never been authentic. She has to think about everything. She&#8217;s not spontaneous. Everything she says is pre-planned and rehearsed. It makes me laugh because I know all her looks and expressions.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I know when she&#8217;s faking it for the cameras. She&#8217;s trying so hard to be perfect that she tenses up every time the camera is on her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the retired lighting director branded his daughter&#8217;s attempts to be in the spotlight &#8220;sad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: &#8220;The best cooks are funny, they mess up, they are human. She just wants to be perfect. It&#8217;s sad because she&#8217;s trying so hard to stay in the limelight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThomas accused Meghan &#8211; who has Prince Archie, five, and three-year-old Princess Lilibet with Harry &#8211; of being &#8220;out of touch with the real world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;Meghan should make affordable food and show people how to stretch their food budget.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I grew up in Pennsylvania and my mum was a great cook \u2013 lots of meat and potatoes and cabbage. Apple butter is a sandwich spread and very tasty and inexpensive.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The women who watch Meghan&#8217;s show are not all rich and privileged. I think people would love it if she focused on more economical dishes.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t think most people these days can afford to go out and spend $90 on fruit. She&#8217;s out of touch with normal people.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;She puts edible flowers on everything. No one has edible flowers handy. Sending kids off to school with edible flowers on their food is silly. Kids don&#8217;t like them and if you put edible flowers in a kid&#8217;s lunchbox they would probably get teased at school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the show, the former &#8216;Suits&#8217; star claimed she was a &#8220;latchkey kid&#8221; who grew up eating fast food and TV dinners, but Thomas insisted that wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;We occasionally ate TV dinners, which family doesn&#8217;t? But I was working two jobs so money was never an issue. We would eat out at least three times a week and order in the rest of the time.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Like any single father who did a long day&#8217;s work, I&#8217;d occasionally put a TV dinner in the microwave. But most of the time we&#8217;d go out.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;After school I would either pick her up myself and we&#8217;d go out to eat or I&#8217;d send a car to bring her to the set. She grew up on the sets I worked on. She was never a latchkey kid.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We lived in a great area, which was packed with restaurants. We ate out all the time. At weekends when I wasn&#8217;t working I&#8217;d take her to a dance class and then invite her and all her friends out for a meal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/royal_family\/meghan-duchess-sussex-branded-inauthentic-dad-1414920.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 March 2025 Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been branded &#8220;inauthentic&#8221; by her estranged father. Thomas Markle criticised his daughter Meghan, Duchess of Sussex The 43-year-old former actress&#8217; new Netflix lifestyle series, &#8216;With Love, Meghan&#8217;, premiered last week and while Thomas Markle &#8211; who has had no contact with his daughter since before she married [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[245,175,10858],"class_list":{"0":"post-154936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-meghan-duchess-of-sussex","9":"tag-prince-harry","10":"tag-thomas-markle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}