Do Americans feel embarrassed regarding Meghan Markle's family situation?
It used to be that if you were to marry into the Royal Family, you had to be from a noble family, or royalty from another country.
Is the Markle family American royalty? Oh hell no!
I'm Australian, but even I sort of cringe regarding her situation. I feel embarrassed for her! The analytical part of me says "well she knows her family and she chose not to deal with these issues a long time ago."
She should have contacted her family before the engagement and said "you're all invited, we're going to play happy family, please don't talk to the press or give interviews, just comment if asked "we're delighted for Meghan." Not just contacted, probably meet them with Harry and smooth things over.
Instead we have the half sister saying that she wants to write a book called "Pushy Princess." We have a half brother saying that Meghan is trying to play Diana.
Now the father has been caught out staging photos of him surfing the web about his daughter, getting fitted for a suit, lifting dumbbells and reading a book on English castles.
This has been a PR disaster.