Meghan Markle and Samantha Markle | 85

Diss and Tell

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.2 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When Meghan Markle stepped into royal life, the world’s eyes were on her—but the harshest spotlight came from her own family. Her half-sister, Samantha Markle, launched a media blitz filled with accusations of betrayal and neglect. But was Samantha exposing the truth, or crafting a narrative to cash in on Meghan’s fame? And how did Meghan turn the tide as Samantha went from sympathetic sibling to a villain in the public eye?

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to diss and tell early and ad-free right now.
0:05.4	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.6	All right, Sydney, have you or one of your siblings ever used something that one of you said years ago against you as an adult?
0:24.4	Oh, absolutely. I think that's the code of sisters. You're just like constantly writing down
0:30.8	a horrible or snarky thing your sister said so that you can pull it back up years later when you're in a better place and guilt them
0:38.6	into doing something for you. Beautiful. For me, it's my mom. The day that I told her to shut up
0:44.3	will go on her gravestone. My mom will have Alzheimer's one day and she'll still remember every
0:50.3	wrong thing I ever said. Bless her. Bless her.
0:55.9	Well, yeah, today we have more family drama.
1:00.1	So we're going to go back to September 2018 in London,
1:04.8	four months after the royal wedding of Megan Markle and Prince Harry.
1:09.5	Tyler Perry's Confidant.
1:11.1	Mm-hmm.
1:11.8	Summer is coming to an end, but, you know, the sun is still shining.
1:16.1	It's just a perfect time for Megan's half-sister Samantha to drop a bomb on Megan.
1:23.7	I didn't even know she had a half-sister.
1:26.0	Yeah, and that is the few that we're going to be talking about.
1:28.9	Her half-sister really came out of the woodwork
1:30.9	and started causing a lot of trouble.
1:34.0	So if you've managed to avoid every little piece of royal gossip,
1:38.1	maybe Samantha Markle is a bit of a stranger,
1:41.7	but she is a world of drama onto herself.
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