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1. 0:00Why did Meghan [music] Markle not walk
2. 0:01down the aisle with her own father, even
3. 0:03though he is alive? Thomas Markle was
4. 0:05[music] supposed to walk her down the
5. 0:07aisle at St. George's Chapel on the 19th
6. 0:09of May 2018, and that was the plan
7. 0:11[music] until the week of the wedding,
8. 0:13when it emerged that he had staged a
9. 0:14series of paparazzi photos. He had done
10. 0:17a deal with a photo agency [music]
11. 0:18and also told fabricated lies to the
12. 0:20media for money, which embarrassed the
13. 0:22couple days before [music] the ceremony.
14. 0:24On the Friday, Kensington Palace
15. 0:26announced that Meghan had asked Prince
16. 0:28Charles to accompany her down the aisle
17. 0:30choir. It was a job he had done before,
18. 0:32in [music] 2016, when he walked Diana's
19. 0:35goddaughter Alexandra Knatchbull down
20. 0:37the aisle. On the day,
21. 0:38>> [music]
22. 0:38>> Meghan walked the first stretch of the
23. 0:40chapel on her own, and Charles met her
24. 0:42at the choir and took her the rest of
25. 0:43the way to Harry.
26. 0:44>> [music]
27. 0:44>> Her father watched the ceremony on
28. 0:46television. He later said he had become
29. 0:48a footnote in one [music] of the
30. 0:49greatest moments in history instead of
31. 0:51the dad walking her down the aisle. They
32. 0:53have been estranged ever since,
33. 0:55>> [music]
34. 0:55>> and he has reportedly never met his
35. 0:57grandchildren.