Meghan Markle’s Half-Sister ‘Insulted’ by Decision Not to Give Father a Coat of Arms
22nd May 2018
The requirement for receiving a coat of arms is that one be a gentleman. Whatever one can say about Markle’s father, there is no pretense that he is (or ever could be) a gentleman. The modern criteria are along the lines of ‘university graduate’ or ‘professional’ (such as the Middletons); Markle is working-class or lower-middle class at best, and his actions prior to the wedding suggest that he’s a fairly dodgy character.