Ever since the news of Prince Harry and US actress Meghan Markle’s engagement broke, there’s been a big question mark over which members of her family would be invited to the wedding of the year.
The 36-year-old’s parents – Doria Loyce Ragland and Thomas Markle Sr. – divorced when she was just six years old, and she continued to live with her mother after the split. The soon-to-be princess even admitted that her fiancé was yet to meet her father face-to-face at the time of their engagement.
When Meghan’s older half-sister Samantha began speaking to the press – and spruiking a “tell-all” book about Meghan and her upbringing – things started to look dire for certain members of the actresses family. Would her father be invited?
Or would the Suits star buck another wedding tradition by having her yoga-teaching mother accompany down the aisle?
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With confirmation from Kensington Palace that the invitations for the May 19 celebrations have been sent, The Sun on Sunday reports that 73-year-old Thomas Markle Sr. will indeed be present to watch his youngest daughter marry.
“[He] is overjoyed to be beside his little girl on the day she becomes a princess — even if he has to battle his demons to get there,” a family friend told the publication.