{"id":142653,"date":"2018-06-18T08:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/royal-wedding-2018-meghans-dad-reveals-tears-over-wedding\/"},"modified":"2018-06-18T08:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T08:51:56","slug":"royal-wedding-2018-meghans-dad-reveals-tears-over-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/royal-wedding-2018-meghans-dad-reveals-tears-over-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal wedding 2018: Meghan&#8217;s dad reveals tears over wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p067mzk8.jpg\"\/>Media playback is unsupported on your device<figcaption>Media captionWatch highlights of Meghan and Harry&#039;s big day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">The Duchess of Sussex&#039;s father, Thomas Markle, has revealed his daughter cried when he told her he would not be attending her wedding to Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed his disappointment at not walking her down the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;m a footnote to the greatest moment in history rather than the dad who walked his daughter down the aisle. That upsets me somewhat,&quot; he told ITV&#039;s Good Morning Britain.<\/p>\n<p>He said he watched the event on TV from a B&amp;B in the US after having surgery.<\/p>\n<p>He said he cried while viewing it, describing the duchess as &quot;beautiful&quot; and saying it was &quot;incredible&quot; that &quot;the whole world was watching my daughter&quot;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five moments from the royal wedding <\/li>\n<li>Royal wedding in pictures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr Markle told GMB he broke the news that he would not be attending the event in an emotional phone call with Prince Harry and his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They were disappointed ... and they both said, &#039;Take care of yourself, we are really worried about you&#039;,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Twitter post  by @GMB                              <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Thomas Markle talks about his heart surgery and the moment he told Meghan he couldn\u2019t attend the royal wedding #GMB pic.twitter.com\/oIpPjPbd6u<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 18, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              Report                          <\/p>\n<p>End of Twitter post  by @GMB<\/p>\n<p>Prince Charles walked the duchess down the aisle instead.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Markle said he felt &quot;jealous&quot;, but added: &quot;I was honoured, I can&#039;t think of a better replacement than someone like Prince Charles.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was thrilled to tears he was doing that, I just wish it had been my hand holding hers not his.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The duchess&#039; father had undergone heart surgery which prevented him from taking part in the ceremony.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Reuters                                                    <\/figure>\n<p>Describing the moment Prince Harry asked for his daughter&#039;s hand in marriage, Mr Markle said he told his future son-in-law: &quot;You are a gentleman, promise me you will never raise your hand against my daughter and of course I will grant you my permission.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the possibility of a royal baby being soon on the way, he said his daughter had &quot;wanted children for a long time&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2>Brexit and Trump conversations<\/h2>\n<p>Mr Markle also said he discussed politics, including the US president and Brexit, with Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was complaining about not liking Donald Trump, he said &#039;give Donald Trump a chance&#039;,&quot; Mr Markle told GMB.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meghan&#039;s dress in detail<\/li>\n<li>Wedding moments you may have missed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When asked about their Brexit discussion, he said: &quot;It was just a loose conversation... I think he [the Duke of Sussex] was open to the experiment.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>Paparazzi photos row<\/h2>\n<p>In the run-up to the wedding Mr Markle became embroiled in a controversy over reports he had staged paparazzi photos of himself in wedding-related activities, such as being measured for a new suit. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that it was meant to be &quot;a way of improving my look&quot;, adding: &quot;Obviously that all went to hell.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He said he apologised to both Harry and Meghan. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I realised it was a serious mistake. It&#039;s hard to take it back,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>                           Skip Twitter post  by @chrisshipitv                              <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018That all went to hell\u2019. Thomas Markle\u2019s description of his decision to work with the paparazzi and stage pictures of himself before the #royalwedding. \u2018I didn\u2019t do it for the money\u2019 he tells @GMB but to change my image. \u2018I apologised\u2019 to Harry &amp; Meghan he said pic.twitter.com\/XGmIjjmAC1<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) June 18, 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>              Report                          <\/p>\n<p>End of Twitter post  by @chrisshipitv<\/p>\n<p>The only member of the duchess&#039; family to attend the wedding was her mother, Doria Ragland. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking about her being at the wedding, he said: &quot;My ex-wife is a beautiful woman. I thought she looked very good.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I kind of wish she was sitting next to someone.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  PA<figcaption>Image caption                                      Doria Ragland was the only member of the bride&#039;s family at the ceremony                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He revealed 40 to 50 members of the Markle family asked for invites to the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>He said Meghan probably had &quot;the good sense&quot; not to invite any of her other relatives because &quot;she would have offended the others&quot; who were not invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media playback is unsupported on your deviceMedia captionWatch highlights of Meghan and Harry&#039;s big day The Duchess of Sussex&#039;s father, Thomas Markle, has revealed his daughter cried when he told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}