Evidence shows that Samantha Markle's attempts to capitalize off of and trash Meghan Markle publicly truly know no bounds.
A 2022 BuzzFeed News report came out in the wake of Samantha's lawsuit against Meghan. The two women share a father but are 17 years apart. Despite Samantha's many assertions otherwise, there's minimal evidence of a real relationship between the two throughout the years, other than occasionally attending family events together.
That did not, of course, keep Samantha from posturing herself as an expert on all things Meghan after news of her relationship with Prince Harry went public.
The BuzzFeed News investigation found evidence that over the previous years, Samantha has worked with particular partners not only to slam her sister but to push negative and damaging narratives around Meghan, her relationship with Harry, and her role as a parent. She used various different Twitter accounts to communicate with the reporter behind the largest anti-Meghan account on YouTube.
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In her tweets, Samantha has openly speculated that Meghan did not really carry her own children and used surrogates to have them. She also shared that she didn't believe the children deserved titles if there was no evidence of "proof of delivery from my sister's womb."
These accusations and others have afforded Samantha the attention of tabloid news shows and papers from the UK and Australia, who enjoy her takedowns of her half-sister. Still, she sued Meghan with claims that their public falling-out has caused her distress and damaged her career.
BuzzFeed News contacted Samantha's lawyer, Douglas Kahle, with questions about the media activity her accounts were connected to. The response BuzzFeed received was laughable.
"Ms. Markle's email and other accounts have been hacked on several occasions and it is very likely that those statements were made by third parties to defame our client," he claimed, not specifying what statements he was referring to.
While this all may seem harmless to some, there are darker implications to this activity. These trolls only fuel the hate toward the Duchess of Sussex and feed the obsession with her children. It starts with a small conspiracy, but there are people out there who truly believe Archie and Lilibet do not exist and that Harry and Meghan use lifelike dolls to give the impression that they have children.
In the United Kingdom, there are laws about children being born "of the body" when it comes to inheriting titles. While Archie and Lilibet do not have titles, they are in the line of succession and could, in theory, be removed if that were to be true. The fact that these attitudes are being directed at the first children of color in the royal family also hasn't gone unnoticed by those watching from the sidelines.
More hurtful rumors have resulted, ones that Samantha has no problem giving credence to. She's entertained the idea that Archie was born with Down syndrome and that's why they choose to not share photos of him publicly. She's speculated that Meghan had known Prince Andrew and met him on Jeffrey Epstein's island prior to dating Harry. She's even suggested the children be DNA-tested because they are, in her perspective, unlikely to biologically belong to Harry and Meghan.
The YouTuber Samantha is known to have connections with, Yankee Wally, spoke with BuzzFeed News of her position. In real life, her name is Sadie Quinlan, and she's a 60-something Welsh woman.
"I am not a stalker. I don't want to see Harry and Meghan in my life. But at the same time, let's just get them — those children — off the line of succession. Because they don't belong on it. They don't belong on it and it's wrong to put them on it," she said.
"I am not going to accept those children of his as heirs to the throne. No way. No way on God's green earth will I ever accept that, because those children were born from surrogates."
"The only way anything is going to stop is if Meghan stands up and says, 'This is the truth, a surrogate gave birth to both my children. I'd like to put this on the public record.' I would honestly, I'd take a holiday, I'd be gone," Sadie Quinlan continued.
"It would make my life so much better and — my job would be complete. I wouldn't need anything, I don't care about anything else. I care about the lineage to the crown. So that's what would stop me, for Meghan to tell the truth, and the truth, the biggest lie, is the surrogacy."
She openly describes Samantha as a friend in videos and is transparent that they are in contact.
"She's got my phone number and my email and she knows that I'm always willing to say anything she wants me to say," she said of Samantha.
"She always tells me what I can put out and what I can't."
