Meghan Markle's Half-Sister Samantha Accuses Her Of Perjury After Duchess' Apology

Meghan Markle's family members have accused the duchess of perjury amid her ongoing legal battle.

Last week, the Duchess of Sussex, 39, apologized for misleading a U.K. court about the extent of her cooperation with the authors of an unauthorized biography about her and Prince Harry amid her lawsuit with the publisher of the Mail On Sunday, Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), over the publication of portions of a letter she wrote to her estranged father.

Her half-sister, Samantha Markle, recently weighed in on the duchess' apology during an interview with GB News' Dan Wootton, who said that the two sisters' father, Thomas Markle, suggested on the TV host's show last week that Meghan "may have been deliberately lying to the court."

When Wootton directly asked Samantha if she believes her sister "committed perjury," the 56-year-old author responded, "Yes, I do, with regards to the letter. Between the eloquent language and the flamboyant calligraphy and the word choices."

Samatha pointed to Meghan's "word choices," which she claimed "were so dramatic and so pointed, and none of them true. ... It was just so blameful and skewed."

Samantha explained that she believes Meghan allegedly committed perjury because it's unlikely for a person to forget "contributing to your own book."

Recalling her own experience writing her memoir "The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister Part 1," Samantha said that it takes a "concerted effort" and anyone contributing to a book would know what their "agenda" and "point" was for saying something they know would be included in the published work.

"To say that it was a mishap was incredibly wrong and, I believe, perjury," Samantha claimed.

Associated Newspapers is currently trying to challenge Meghan's February win, in which a U.K. High Court had ruled that the publication of the letter she wrote to her father was "manifestly excessive and hence unlawful."

The publisher argued that Meghan wrote the letter knowing it might be published and made private information public by cooperating with Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, authors of the royal biography "Finding Freedom."

Meghan's lawyers previously denied that she or Prince Harry collaborated with the authors. But the couple's former communications director, Jason Knauf, said in evidence to the court that he gave the writers information and discussed it with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

In a witness statement made public last week, Markle accepted "that Mr. Knauf did provide some information to the authors for the book and that he did so with my knowledge, for a meeting that he planned for with the authors in his capacity as communications secretary." She added that "the extent of the information he shared is unknown to me," according to CNN.

The duchess said she did not remember the discussions with Knauf when she gave evidence earlier in the case, "and I apologize to the court for the fact that I had not remembered these exchanges at the time."

"I had absolutely no wish or intention to mislead the defendant or the court," she said.

Knauf also said in court that Meghan told him she was aware the letter to her father could be leaked and that calling him "Daddy" would "pull at the heartstrings."

Lawyers for the publisher argued that Knauf's statement proves Meghan's letter to her father was not an "intimate communication for her father's eyes only" and was instead "crafted with readership by the public in mind."