In episode three, Meghan introduced her niece, Ashleigh Hale, who is the daughter of Samantha Markle, Meghan's estranged half-sister.
As Hale shared in "Harry & Meghan," she was not raised by Samantha. Instead, her paternal grandparents raised her and her brother, and eventually adopted them.
Hale is an immigration attorney, as Insider previously reported.
Meghan and Hale connected in 2007, and they grew close, taking trips together and speaking frequently, as they shared in the docuseries.
"I think she takes on a lot of roles for me. There's a sister element, there's something maternal," Hale said of Meghan. "She's a best friend, she's kind of all the things."
Hale said she stopped speaking to her biological mother after Meghan and Harry's relationship became public.
"After the news first broke, Samantha pretty quickly began expressing a lot of angry words about Meg towards me. What was communicated to me was maybe some resentment," she said in the docuseries. "And it felt like no matter what I said, you know, her perspective didn't change and seemed to get angrier and bigger."
The royal family also advised Meghan not to invite Hale to her wedding because of the way it would look to invite Hale but not Samantha.