Meghan Markle sent a brutal letter to her father in which she claimed she 'barely knows' stepsister Samantha - it has been revealed.
In an explosive letter published in the Mail on Sunday, the Duchess of Sussex blasted father Thomas Markle and sister Samantha's public attacks on her and Prince Harry.
'I pleaded with you to stop reading the tabloids,' she wrote in the letter to Thomas.
'On a daily basis you fixated and clicked on the lies they were writing about me, especially those manufactured by your other daughter, who I barely know.
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Meghan Markle said she 'barely knows' half-sister Samantha in the explosive letter to her father Thomas
Meghan complains Thomas sided with her half-sister Samantha in criticising her, but he insists: ‘I never wanted Meg to suffer.’
'You watched me silently suffer at the hands of your vicious lies. I crumbled inside.'
The bombshell five-page letter, sent in August last year, lays bare the true depths of the Duchess’s estrangement from her father.
In elegant script, she accuses him of breaking her heart ‘into a million pieces’ by giving interviews to the press, fabricating stories and attacking her new husband.
The Duchess also admonishes her father, in anguished tones, for siding with her half-sister Samantha – who has attacked her in the press – while she ‘silently suffered at the hand of her vicious lies’.
Earlier this week it was revealed that Meghan burst into tears after discovering her estranged half-sister Samantha is planning to write a book about her.
The Duchess of Sussex, who is around seven months pregnant, was upset because she
