Now Meghan Markle's half brother compares her to Princess Diana/brother ...

Now Meghan Markle's half brother compares her to Princess Diana



Meghan Markle's half-brother has compared her to Princess Diana as he tries to patch things up after his poisonous open letter to Prince Harry.



Thomas Markle Junior, who used to babysit for Meghan when she was young, is not invited to this weekend's royal wedding, which he has previously branded a 'fake fairy tale'.



But he was keen to appear positive yesterday as he paid to take a tour of Meghan's new home, Kensington Palace, as a member of the public and spoke in glowing terms about the woman he previously called an 'acting phoney'.



He claimed Meghan may remind Prince Harry of his mother, because of her caring personality and positive attitude.

Thomas Junior told The Daily Mirror: 'Meg has this ability to bring comfort to those she meets, and I truly think it's something similar to what Princess Diana had.



'She has a great warmth for people she meets, installed in her by [her mum] Doria and Dad.'



He added: 'Perhaps Harry sees a lot of his mum in Meg, how she is with people.'





He said reports that Ms Markle had visited and spoke with Grenfell Tower survivors showed she has a compassionate nature like Prince Harry's late mother.



Thomas Junior, 51, had initially welcomed his half-sister's romance with the prince, when it first emerged, saying that Harry was 'lucky to have her'.



But after a series of very public, largely alcohol-fuelled run-ins with the police, he then changed his mind.



He penned an 'open letter' for an Australian magazine in which told Harry: 'As more time passes to your royal wedding, it became very clear that this is the biggest mistake in royal wedding history.'



He described Meghan elsewhere as 'acting phoney' and claimed she was 'trying to reinvent herself as the new Princess Diana'.



As a result, not only does Miss Markle no longer speak to him, but nor does his full sister, Samantha, who has accused him of being a 'drunk' who can't stop shooting his mouth off.



But since arriving in Britain uninvited this week, Markle Junior has attempted to smoothe over his public criticism of Meghan in recent weeks.



He said: 'My letter wasn't intended to cause hurt or upset. I'd hoped my letter might shame the palace, I guess, into getting in touch. I was wrong.



'It wasn't designed to humiliate Meg into inviting me, but more hoping we could get the help we needed.'



HARRY: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PRINCE 



by Angela Levin (John Blake £18.99)



Looking at the photographs of Prince Harry as a boy in Angela Levin’s engaging and compassionate new book, I found myself imagining I was Meghan Markle flicking through them and falling even more madly in love with my handsome, freckly redhead.



Little Harry, aged nearly two, on a slide in the garden, wearing the miniature Parachute Regiment uniform to which he was addicted; aged six, riding a real tank on a visit to Germany with camouflage marks on his face; aged ten, his mother clutching his hand at the VE Day anniversary; as a casual sixth-former in his room at Eton, foot resting on his knee with Lynx deodorant on his desk.



Perhaps most swoon-inducing of all is an image of him at his Sandhurst passing-out parade, in a row of straight-faced officer cadets, unable to rein in his cheeky grin as the Queen, beaming with grandmotherly pride, catches his eye while inspecting the troops.