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Todo sobre Thomas Markle, padre de Meghan
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JULY 7, 2019A BOFFIN
(Thomas) Markle (Senior) vs. (Rachel) Markle
Is Thomas Markle Senior an unwitting conspirator or a victim? The christening of the child named ‘Archie’ came and went, but to be honest no one was that interested and even most of the reporters that are usually glued to a Sussex story enjoyed a summer weekend doing what they wanted to do. It may have mattered to one man, Thomas Wayne Markle (Senior) who has been discarded like a bit of mud scraped off a shoe by his daughter Rachel Meghan Markle. We all knew he wouldn’t have been invited, and hopefully by now he can see his daughter for the person she has become, but was this all planned by MM, where her unwitting and doting father became her victim? Some say he is estranged; I would say she has disowned him and it didn’t appear to be accidental.
It’s Markle vs. Markle; one, a father who can’t see past the little girl who once adored him, and the other who uses the power of parental love to manipulate, and uses it to look like a victim to gain sympathy.
In a week or so he will turn 75, but is Thomas partly to blame for the situation, or did he become expendable and surplus to requirements? Only two people know the whole truth, and that is the two Markles, yet we can look at the evidence that has led up to this scenario. Meanwhile, MM fans attack Thomas, defame him, and accuse him of all sorts without any evidence, and the paid PR portray MM as the poor daughter whose father is cashing in and looking for fame through her. To a sane and sensible person, none of that makes sense, so let’s look at a few facts and assess whether Thomas is guilty as charged, or was he a mere pawn in an elaborate plan? By laying out the logical known facts, the aim is not to attack or defend Thomas, but to look at his version of events (now with evidence) versus what has transpired.
Why didn’t Harry ever meet Thomas?
From the alleged start of the relationship back in May 2016 to the revelation of the staged paparazzi images in May 2018, that’s two whole years where MM could have taken Harry to meet her father. Money wasn’t an issue as both are effectively millionaires, neither was time as MM was unemployed from November 2017 and Harry was doing about a dozen engagements a month, so that leaves plenty of time to fly to Mexico or for them to meet over the border in the USA. However, they chose not to, and communicated by telephone instead.
There simply is no excuse or valid reason for the Sussex duo not to have visited him, or paid for him to visit them prior to May 2018.
Excuses of they were ‘busy’ do not wash––busy planning how to brainwash the world on social media? Busy buying expensive outfits? MM managed trips back to see friends in the USA, but not her father.
Why didn’t MM want Harry to meet her father? Was she ashamed, embarrassed or knew if they met he would have to be part of the wedding, and that wasn’t what she had planned? Thomas Markle lives a reclusive life in Mexico where he has chosen to retire, far away from family and friends, thus why would he care about his image in the media (which was the reason he gave for staging the paparazzi photos)?
If Thomas was and had the following, then perhaps things would have been different and MM would have included him in her life, and introduced Harry to him. Who knows if she ever introduced Cory Vitiello to him, or if he ever visited Toronto while she lived there? Thomas has never mentioned either which suggests that MM had kept her distance from him for quite a while except when he was a useful topic for the defunct ‘The Tig’.
Perhaps if Thomas Markle had/was the below, his daughter may have had an interest in him:
- A mansion in the Hollywood Hills, with a pool, and a gate.
- Be fit and healthy with a size 34 waist and 42 inch chest.
- Have a crowd of A or B list friends and associates.
- Frequents Michelin star restaurants.
- Takes vacations on Caribbean Island and yachts.
- Be a millionaire.
There were ample opportunities for Thomas to visit, or for the Sussex duo to visit, for example trips were provided for Doria. MM chose not to include her father from the start, that much is evident, however, Thomas could not see that and prefers to believe she was ‘busy’ and didn’t have time.
All this time, it was alleged that Thomas would attend the wedding even though he had not seen his daughter or met Harry, although stories reported that MM wanted her mother to walk her down the aisle or Charles or William. Perhaps that was the plan?
The alleged paid for staged photos
When photos surfaced of Thomas reading a book on England, everyone knew it was obviously staged. The staff saw it, and it looked fake and conspired but it did no harm. Those images hit the tabloids on 3/4 April which had been taken on 26/27 March, all in 2018. Then images of him in a cyber cafe looking at images of the duo surfaced on 8 May, which were taken 6 weeks earlier. Again, there was no harm until CCTV footage showed it wasn’t a paparazzi stalking him (although some had), but that Thomas walked into the cafe with the photographer and staged some photos. This was revealed on 12 May, a week before the wedding, but why was the CCTV footage released then when it could have been released earlier?
Why was there no issue with the images until it was alleged that Thomas had made a deal to split the profits of the photos? While Thomas has admitted in assisting with the photos, some say he accepted money, but personally I don’t think he would do it for the money either, or accept any if it was offered (I have not heard him admit to accepting money). The reason he stated was that he was trying to boost his image instigated from advice suggested by his elder daughter Samantha. Why would a recluse care about his image, although he says it was to prevent embarrassment to the RF, what precisely? The fact that he chooses to eat at diners, and that he is overweight? Why is that embarrassing? I would say naked photos (of MM) would be more embarrassing.
- The photos were all taken 26-27 March 2018, yet drip fed for effect and for nefarious reasons it appears.
- Image of Thomas reading the book on England is printed 3/4 April
- Images of Thomas working out are published 20 April, it was obviously staged as Markle was on an exercise bike outdoors!
- 4 May, images of Thomas being measured for a suit appear, we know that was fake as the shop was closed, but surely MM would know that too as she had allegedly ordered his suits in London, so why would he need a tailor in Mexico?
- Thomas is seen in a cyber cafe on 8 May looking at the duo online.
- 12 May the CCTV footage showing Thomas with Jeff Rayner appear in the tabloids.
- 14 May, Thomas admits to collaborating with the photographer for the photos and says he will not attend the wedding due to poor health.
- 17 May, MM releases a statement stating Thomas will not attend the wedding.
Here are the questions that we should be asking, and that no one is willing to give the answers to:
- Are we led to believe that Thomas Markle, the recluse looked up the most trust worthy paparazzi company and found Coleman-Rayner who incidentally were the ones who released images of Doria and alleged harassment back in 2016?
- Did he contact them, or did they contact him?
- Why would Thomas risk a money deal with so many witnesses around?
- With the witnesses of the staff at the cafe and at the tailors, surely he knew someone would talk? If it was so innocent (as he thought) it would not have mattered.
- Why did Coleman-Rayner or the press drip feed the images that were taken on the same day? Was it to make more money, to keep the Markle name in the headlines, or to build Thomas up for a fall?
- The cyber cafe image was released a few days before the CCTV footage; was that to verify that it was Thomas and Rayner?
- The CCTV footage was likely obtained a while before it was released, so why wait until less than a week before the wedding to release it? They could have done it earlier or after the wedding. What was their motive or were they instructed to do so?
- The timing was precise; no arrangements it seems had been made for Thomas despite him saying there had been (in a later interview his story changes from things having been set up to hearing nothing). There had been no suit made or completed (sorry but having one made in the UK when the client is abroad and who has never had a fitting smells a bit fishy), no air tickets or accommodation booked. If Thomas was to have flown over, he should have done so at least a week before the wedding, the exact time the footage was released.
- MM then released a statement on 17 May confirming her father would not be attending (many doubted he would, but not for the reasons that occurred), and used the past tense in reference to him, indicating that she had cut ties with him.
- With less than two days to go, Charles had no choice but to walk MM down the aisle and Doria had already arrived in the UK, although it appears that MM had forgotten to book the tickets as she arrived on Wednesday, a mere 72 hours before the wedding. A little late given the long journey and the need to get over jet lag.
Thomas Markle sent a text on 16 May to say he was in hospital and was not allowed to fly. Notice the use of the past tense, ‘I have always cared’.
From what we can see, the paparazzi photos were aimed from the start to destroy the credibility of Thomas Markle. It made him look desperate and fake, and he was posing and was aware of the photographers. They built him up for a fall, and it enabled MM to dispense with her father and to look like the victim. Out of all of this no one has criticized the paparazzi at all, yet it is they who profited and who controlled where and when the images were published. Were they paid by a third party (PR firm) to do this?
The timing of a week before the wedding is suspect, and who gained? MM got Charles to walk her down the aisle which is what she wanted, and she didn’t have to invite any Markle family members (which she hadn’t) if her father wasn’t going to attend. It would have been hard for him to explain to his brothers why their niece hadn’t invited them if he went. In short, Thomas Markle was never wanted at the wedding, but MM needed a way to make him look bad so he couldn’t come. This then led to the infamous quote from Harry, “The family she never had…” which really meant the family she has, but that isn’t good enough for her.
In an act of love, is Thomas covering for his daughter who may have instigated it all, but has to take the fall because if people found out it was her idea then she would lose public sympathy and affection, and be seen as a fraud as he is now? If she saw the images of him being measured at a tailors then she would know they were fake, and that was before the CCTV footage, so why was she not alarmed then unless she was in on the plan?
interviews
Thomas Markle had remained silent for many months and went about his business as usual, and only after MM refused to speak to him or to reply to his letters that he sent through her representatives did he choose to do an interview. He was fairly consistent in his answers, and you have to judge whether he was truthful of not.
Clearly he was hoping for a reconciliation, but that was unlikely. He wanted to tell his side of the story, perhaps a little too late, but he was still defending his daughter, unable to see that she may well have set him up. No parent wants to admit to that, but it does happens. Some people will use that trust and loyalty and take advantage of it for their own gain, and he cannot separate the little girl he once adored with a manipulative adult. The fact that she only invited her mother to the wedding says a lot about what MM had planned, and Thomas Markle cannot spin that any other way. She wants to forget the family she has, because they are not wealthy, famous, or useful to her.
The June interview states that MM and Harry had forgiven him and all was well and that they would visit him soon… well, he was either fibbing or they misled him as they had no intention of visiting him or inviting him over. In later interviews he is forced to defend himself, and declares he has never spoken to Charles, and MM will not return his calls as she has blocked him.
He also mentions that he went for suit fittings in LA, yet the suit allegedly ended up being sold in London and someone wore it at Ascot, so why would he do the staged photos of being measured back in March knowing that the ‘real tailors’ would know it was fake if there were in fact real tailors. Considering the paparazzi followed him to Doria’s home in LA, it would not have been difficult fo them to follow him to a tailor in LA, but there are no photos. He also mentioned that an aide was escorting him to London; well, first Harry didn’t have many aides and why would he need to be escorted? Doria hopped on a plane by herself and then was met when she arrived. Harry doesn’t have aides to spare (not now if any) for such tasks besides the cost would be ridiculous. Was that what Thomas was told, or what he was told to say?
Thomas Markle had remained silent for many months and went about his business as usual, and only after MM refused to speak to him or to reply to his letters that he sent through her representatives did he choose to do an interview. He was fairly consistent in his answers, and you have to judge whether he was truthful of not.
Clearly he was hoping for a reconciliation, but that was unlikely. He wanted to tell his side of the story, perhaps a little too late, but he was still defending his daughter, unable to see that she may well have set him up. No parent wants to admit to that, but it does happens. Some people will use that trust and loyalty and take advantage of it for their own gain, and he cannot separate the little girl he once adored with a manipulative adult. The fact that she only invited her mother to the wedding says a lot about what MM had planned, and Thomas Markle cannot spin that any other way. She wants to forget the family she has, because they are not wealthy, famous, or useful to her.
The June interview states that MM and Harry had forgiven him and all was well and that they would visit him soon… well, he was either fibbing or they misled him as they had no intention of visiting him or inviting him over. In later interviews he is forced to defend himself, and declares he has never spoken to Charles, and MM will not return his calls as she has blocked him.
He also mentions that he went for suit fittings in LA, yet the suit allegedly ended up being sold in London and someone wore it at Ascot, so why would he do the staged photos of being measured back in March knowing that the ‘real tailors’ would know it was fake if there were in fact real tailors. Considering the paparazzi followed him to Doria’s home in LA, it would not have been difficult fo them to follow him to a tailor in LA, but there are no photos. He also mentioned that an aide was escorting him to London; well, first Harry didn’t have many aides and why would he need to be escorted? Doria hopped on a plane by herself and then was met when she arrived. Harry doesn’t have aides to spare (not now if any) for such tasks besides the cost would be ridiculous. Was that what Thomas was told, or what he was told to say?
The accusations from MM’s friends and the ‘letter’
On 6 February, 2019, People magazine published interviews from five anonymous friends of MM’s that accused Thomas of various acts from refusing to take MM’s calls (in fact it’s MM who won’t take his calls) and refusing to get into a car (there was no car). This led to him giving another interview where he shares part of a letter where MM makes (false) claims, and he gives his side of the story, and shows evidence that he was in hospital at the time.
Yet, People claim that the letter Thomas produced proves that the friends were telling the truth; are the staff at People really that stupid? All it did was prove that the friends were lying or speculating, and have very vivid imaginations. Yes, he asked for a photo as most parents do, but he didn’t refuse to take her calls because he was in the hospital, and you can’t refuse to get into an imaginary car, especially when you are in a hospital bed! If such an event happened, I’m sure the neighbours would have seen this and verified it, but none have.
The medical bills actually prove that Thomas was ill and was unable to make or receive calls let alone get in a car to fly. People magazine was proved wrong.
It’s MM’s word against his, and he has shown reporters that he has tried to call her with the message, ‘the service you have attempted to use is restricted or unavailable’. Why would he lie, he has nothing to gain? Her friends may wish to believe what she tells them, but that doesn’t mean it’s the truth, only MM’s version of what she wishes to believe and what she wants others to believe.
From a Daily Mail interview in February 2019.
This then led to MM threatening to sue for copyright infringement because the letter was made public (which she had hoped for), however, that case was dropped probably because lawyers told her she would be unlikely to win. The letter had been sent to Thomas and he was free to share it with whom he wished, as long as he did not pass the letter off as his own or profit from it.
By now Thomas realizes that he must defend himself and shows evidence to prove he is telling the truth, yet somehow people still struggle with that because he can’t see that he has been duped.
Thomas Markle’s ‘crimes’
His greatest ‘crime’ is to be a doting father who refuses to see his child for the person she has become, and continues to defend her. Did he go along with her plan, and then she turned on him and now he doesn’t know how to fix it? It looked very much as if the planned paparazzi photos helped MM’s image, plus she would have had the contacts for the agency and to pay for them to go to Mexico. She thrives on control, and no doubt has been able to control her father for years. In June, Thomas seemed quite sure all would be fine because that was the deal and expected to see them soon. Little did he realize (but we all did) that the Sussex duo never wanted to hear from him again.
Is he a man to be pitied or not? That’s for you to decide because he did enable part of this, and a good parent calls their child out when they lie or are deceitful. Some refuse to do that or can’t see it because they are blind to it, and while that doesn’t make them poor parents, it makes them weak parents who allow the child to get away with things through misguided love and loyalty. This happens to parents of murderers and criminals who hide their crimes and make excuses for them, but all they have done is enable the criminal to do more damage in the name of love.
I have said before, Thomas should forget about MM as it’s her loss and he should focus on enjoying the rest of his life and stop begging for forgiveness. I find it difficult to believe that Thomas set it all up by himself without any help, and the cover story of it all ‘to make his image look better’ is utter poppycock.
No one cared that he was photographed coming out of a hardware store or eating at a burger joint, and no one cared that he was reading a book on England or that he was exercising in public either. Why did the Daily Mail decide to buy the CCTV footage, and who alerted them to it (Rayner?) and when? What was their motive knowing that it would destroy what reputation Thomas had? Why did Rayner choose that cafe, and did he know the CCTV was there? The staff already said that Thomas had never been there before, so was that one chosen because of the CCTV that could incriminate Thomas Markle, and that would allow MM’s plans to unfold?
Thomas needs to accept this version of his daughter no longer exists. She no longer needs him or adores him.
Thomas Markle has other friends and family; MM is just one person and one that doesn’t deserve his love and respect. He needs to accept that and that his life is better off without her attacking him. The more he tries to reach out, the more she will attack him through the media and use it to look like a victim. There are battles worth fighting for, and he’s not perfect and like all humans makes mistakes, and quite frankly, she isn’t worth it. Battles fought through deception may win, but Karma ensures a fair outcome eventually. Thomas maybe a sentimental old man, and that appears to be his weakness that has been exploited, and his youngest child knew that and how to use it. He may not wish to believe it, but the evidence leads to that conclusion. MM has turned the world against him, where her cult fans attack him and verbally abuse him (without cause); he must decide whether to continue enabling this, or to defend his name and what is left of his reputation, and that means he must call his youngest child a liar.
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On 6 February, 2019, People magazine published interviews from five anonymous friends of MM’s that accused Thomas of various acts from refusing to take MM’s calls (in fact it’s MM who won’t take his calls) and refusing to get into a car (there was no car). This led to him giving another interview where he shares part of a letter where MM makes (false) claims, and he gives his side of the story, and shows evidence that he was in hospital at the time.
Yet, People claim that the letter Thomas produced proves that the friends were telling the truth; are the staff at People really that stupid? All it did was prove that the friends were lying or speculating, and have very vivid imaginations. Yes, he asked for a photo as most parents do, but he didn’t refuse to take her calls because he was in the hospital, and you can’t refuse to get into an imaginary car, especially when you are in a hospital bed! If such an event happened, I’m sure the neighbours would have seen this and verified it, but none have.
The medical bills actually prove that Thomas was ill and was unable to make or receive calls let alone get in a car to fly. People magazine was proved wrong.
It’s MM’s word against his, and he has shown reporters that he has tried to call her with the message, ‘the service you have attempted to use is restricted or unavailable’. Why would he lie, he has nothing to gain? Her friends may wish to believe what she tells them, but that doesn’t mean it’s the truth, only MM’s version of what she wishes to believe and what she wants others to believe.
From a Daily Mail interview in February 2019.
This then led to MM threatening to sue for copyright infringement because the letter was made public (which she had hoped for), however, that case was dropped probably because lawyers told her she would be unlikely to win. The letter had been sent to Thomas and he was free to share it with whom he wished, as long as he did not pass the letter off as his own or profit from it.
By now Thomas realizes that he must defend himself and shows evidence to prove he is telling the truth, yet somehow people still struggle with that because he can’t see that he has been duped.
Thomas Markle’s ‘crimes’
His greatest ‘crime’ is to be a doting father who refuses to see his child for the person she has become, and continues to defend her. Did he go along with her plan, and then she turned on him and now he doesn’t know how to fix it? It looked very much as if the planned paparazzi photos helped MM’s image, plus she would have had the contacts for the agency and to pay for them to go to Mexico. She thrives on control, and no doubt has been able to control her father for years. In June, Thomas seemed quite sure all would be fine because that was the deal and expected to see them soon. Little did he realize (but we all did) that the Sussex duo never wanted to hear from him again.
Is he a man to be pitied or not? That’s for you to decide because he did enable part of this, and a good parent calls their child out when they lie or are deceitful. Some refuse to do that or can’t see it because they are blind to it, and while that doesn’t make them poor parents, it makes them weak parents who allow the child to get away with things through misguided love and loyalty. This happens to parents of murderers and criminals who hide their crimes and make excuses for them, but all they have done is enable the criminal to do more damage in the name of love.
I have said before, Thomas should forget about MM as it’s her loss and he should focus on enjoying the rest of his life and stop begging for forgiveness. I find it difficult to believe that Thomas set it all up by himself without any help, and the cover story of it all ‘to make his image look better’ is utter poppycock.
No one cared that he was photographed coming out of a hardware store or eating at a burger joint, and no one cared that he was reading a book on England or that he was exercising in public either. Why did the Daily Mail decide to buy the CCTV footage, and who alerted them to it (Rayner?) and when? What was their motive knowing that it would destroy what reputation Thomas had? Why did Rayner choose that cafe, and did he know the CCTV was there? The staff already said that Thomas had never been there before, so was that one chosen because of the CCTV that could incriminate Thomas Markle, and that would allow MM’s plans to unfold?
Thomas needs to accept this version of his daughter no longer exists. She no longer needs him or adores him.
Thomas Markle has other friends and family; MM is just one person and one that doesn’t deserve his love and respect. He needs to accept that and that his life is better off without her attacking him. The more he tries to reach out, the more she will attack him through the media and use it to look like a victim. There are battles worth fighting for, and he’s not perfect and like all humans makes mistakes, and quite frankly, she isn’t worth it. Battles fought through deception may win, but Karma ensures a fair outcome eventually. Thomas maybe a sentimental old man, and that appears to be his weakness that has been exploited, and his youngest child knew that and how to use it. He may not wish to believe it, but the evidence leads to that conclusion. MM has turned the world against him, where her cult fans attack him and verbally abuse him (without cause); he must decide whether to continue enabling this, or to defend his name and what is left of his reputation, and that means he must call his youngest child a liar.
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*Footnote:
While Thomas was consistent with his answers most of the time during his interview, there is doubt over the business of the ‘suit’ and cars and aides coming for him. There is a difference between the June interview where he claims and believed all was set up for him to go to England, however in a later interview he proffers information that counteracts his initial claims.
A suit would arrive more than a few days before a wedding, so if he didn’t have it by the 16th May when he said he could not come as he was too ill to fly, then I doubt there was a suit in Mexico or LA. As for aides coming for him, they would not just turn up at his door without prior arrangement, and as stated before Harry doesn’t have spare aides, and why would Thomas need someone to escort him on a plane when Doria didn’t?
Thomas may have told a few white lies to keep up the appearance that he was going to be at the wedding, but did he ever really try on a suit, and where is the suit now? Allegedly it was in London, so he never actually tried it on. Was his passport still valid? Did his health insurance cover hm? Given that he had a heart attack it is unlikely, and with his health history he would have needed to be cleared for flying a lot earlier than a few days before the wedding. None of this seemed to happen, which one can only conclude that Thomas was never expected to be at the wedding.
While Thomas was consistent with his answers most of the time during his interview, there is doubt over the business of the ‘suit’ and cars and aides coming for him. There is a difference between the June interview where he claims and believed all was set up for him to go to England, however in a later interview he proffers information that counteracts his initial claims.
A suit would arrive more than a few days before a wedding, so if he didn’t have it by the 16th May when he said he could not come as he was too ill to fly, then I doubt there was a suit in Mexico or LA. As for aides coming for him, they would not just turn up at his door without prior arrangement, and as stated before Harry doesn’t have spare aides, and why would Thomas need someone to escort him on a plane when Doria didn’t?
Thomas may have told a few white lies to keep up the appearance that he was going to be at the wedding, but did he ever really try on a suit, and where is the suit now? Allegedly it was in London, so he never actually tried it on. Was his passport still valid? Did his health insurance cover hm? Given that he had a heart attack it is unlikely, and with his health history he would have needed to be cleared for flying a lot earlier than a few days before the wedding. None of this seemed to happen, which one can only conclude that Thomas was never expected to be at the wedding.
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No sé quien tiene la razón, pero el sr. me da pena, creo que está muy solo.
Pues tiene más hijos. Y más nietos.
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La verdad es que parece víctima de un cúmulo de circunstancias adversas que da la impresión de que fueron orquestadas. Parece que si hubiese sido rico, famoso y útil para la imagen de su hija sí se segurían tratando como con Beyoncé, Serena Williams, los Clooney, etc.
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Thomas Markle asks: Why can't I meet Archie? Meghan Markle's father has stayed silent since she gave birth hoping, in his own words, that becoming a mother would 'mellow' her and they could heal their rift. Now in frustration, he speaks out
PUBLISHED: 22:00 BST, 31 August 2019 | UPDATED: 03:50 BST, 1 September 2019
Both photographs are, says Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan Markle, poignant daily reminders of the rift that now exists between himself, the daughter he loves and his son-in-law Prince Harry.
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Warm memory: Meghan and her dad at a football game in her college days. She claims she paid her way through university - something Mr Markle disputes
'Private jets prove they're hypocrites'
Thomas Markle has accused his daughter and Prince Harry of displaying the same 'hypocritical' approach to the environment as they have adopted with him.
Asked about recent stories criticising the couple for taking at least four private jets this summer while lecturing people on the need to save the planet, he told The Mail on Sunday: 'I feel sorry for them in a way because they brought this on themselves. You can't say one thing and do another.
'Everyone raves about how gracious and wonderful they are, but they are not wonderful to their own family. That's hypocritical.
'You can't portray yourself as being charitable and bringing people together and then ghost your own father and your entire family. Their treatment of me has left a lot to be desired.
'I've still never met my son-in-law. Why couldn't Prince Harry have got on a plane and flown to see me to ask for her hand? He obviously has no problem getting on private jets.
'If he wants to come and see me on a private jet, there's an airport near here in Tijuana, and San Diego is just over the border. There are dozens of commercial flights from England to San Diego and Los Angeles every day.'
The couple's private jet flights include a trip to visit Sir Elton John at his home in the South of France and to Ibiza to celebrate Meghan's birthday.
Sir Elton and other celebrity friends have defended Meghan and Harry.
George Clooney called negative stories 'unjust' and Sir Elton condemned the 'distorted and malicious accounts' of the couple’s holiday at his villa in Nice, saying he paid for their private jet.
Meghan's best friend, stylist Jessica Mulroney, even called criticism of Meghan's private jet jaunts 'racist'.
But Mr Markle said: 'I don't think it's racist. I think it's a shame that Meghan and Harry say one thing and act another way. Whoever is advising them isn't doing a great job.'
'I love that picture because that was such a happy day. I have so many happy memories like that.
'There was never any problem between Meghan and me until recently. I've stayed quiet because Meghan was pregnant with Archie but I'm speaking out now because they and their PR people are continuing to ghost me out of her life.
'Of course I'm disappointed not to see Archie. I had hoped becoming a mother would mellow Meghan and she would reach out.'
He takes issue with celebrity friends of Meghan and Harry launching personal attacks on him.
'People who don't know me make judgments,' he says.
'My daughter's new A-list friends have no right to speak about me until they know me.'
Mr Markle says he has apologised repeatedly for staging photographs with the paparazzi, which appeared in this newspaper, just days before the wedding.
'I was approached by a photo agency which said it would be a way to improve my image because the press were making me look like a homeless guy.
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Mr Markle never received an invitation to his daughter's wedding and he was forced to abandon plans to walk his daughter down the aisle after suffering two heart attacks
'It was a huge mistake. I wanted to apologise to the Royal Family publicly but Meghan and Harry told me not to.
'So I texted Jason Knauf, who was Harry and Meghan's then press secretary, and he asked me what I'd like to say? I said I wanted to apologise to the Queen and the Royal Family and that I meant no harm. That apology never came out. I don't know why.'
When he suffered two heart attacks and ended up in hospital, Mr Markle never heard afterwards from either his daughter or son-in-law and he was forced to cancel his flight across the Atlantic to the wedding on doctor's orders.
'All I'd like to ask people is, "How would you feel if your father had a heart attack?" I texted them [Harry and Meghan] from my hospital bed and told them where I was. I have the texts to prove it. Yet never once has Meghan ever asked me how I'm doing. Not then, not since.'
He has been stung by critics, particularly those in the UK, who complain that he rarely sees his other grown-up grandchildren – Tyler and TJ, the sons of Tom Jr, and Noelle, Christopher and Ashleigh, the children of his eldest daughter Samantha.
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In Meghan's first major speech in Fiji last year (pictured), she claimed that she paid her own way through university
'Brits don't realise the scale of the distances between us,' he says. 'When American families move apart from each other there are thousands of miles between us.
'We stay in touch but it's not that easy. You can't just jump in the car and go like you guys can. We stay in touch the best we can.'
Most upsetting, says Mr Markle, is the fact that his daughter, in her first major speech in Fiji last year, claimed that she paid her own way through university and would not have been able to afford the reported $200,000 tuition fees at Northwestern University without financial aid.
Speaking to a group of students at the University of the South Pacific, Meghan said: 'The journey of higher education is an incredible, impactful and pivotal one.
'I am also fully aware of the challenges of being able to afford this level of schooling for many people around the world, myself included.
'It was with scholarships, financial aid programmes, and work study from my earnings from a job on campus that went directly towards my tuition that I was able to attend university, and without question it was worth every effort.'
Not true, says her father, who remained silent at the time because his daughter was pregnant.
'I'm sorry but that is completely untrue. I paid every penny of her tuition and I have the bank statements to prove it.
'I paid for her trips to Spain and England. I paid for her internship in Argentina.'
For his part, Mr Markle admits it was a 'point of pride' to pay off his daughter's fees even after she became an independently wealthy woman. 'I told Meg I would pay for her education and I did. It's what any father would do.'
He has revealed the contents of a letter sent to Meghan's mother Doria five days after the Duchess's speech in Fiji.
Mr Markle said: 'I always hoped that I would be as close to Meghan's child as I was to her when she was a child'
In it, he wrote: 'Meghan is saying she wants nothing to do with me and she worked her way through college all by herself. I haven't said anything about it, but I'm sure reporters are checking at Northwestern to see who paid her way through school. She cannot change history.'
Mr Markle is tired of waiting for his daughter and Prince Harry to forgive him. 'I'm sick of the lies. I'm sick of being vilified and shut out of their lives.
'I always upheld my responsibilities as a father. Meghan's comments about paying her way through college are offensive to me.
'I don't want anything from Meghan or Harry but I'm not going to shut up until the whole truth is out there. I will continue to contradict anything said about me that isn't true.
'I have to stand up for myself. I'm going to carry on speaking and I'm not going to shut up,' he added.
'No father deserves this kind of abuse when he's been that good to his daughter. Ask anyone who knows us both. I've been very kind and generous to my daughter.'
On Meghan's old website Tig, a lifestyle blog which she took down after her engagement, she repeatedly credited her father for turning her into the woman she is today.
There was one famous post about how she was given a form at school and asked to identify her ethnicity.
Meghan didn't know which box to chose because she didn't want to offend either her mother or father.
She came home and asked her father who told her: 'Draw your own box and say who you are and I will back you up.'
'I told her I'd back her up because she was going to hand the form back to a teacher,' he explained.
'I wanted her to know I had her back. Those moments she cites which show her strength and independence, a lot of those came from me.
'Everybody thinks I had nothing to do with her after Doria and I divorced. The truth is she lived with me most of the time until she went off to college.
'I believe all family differences can be resolved and I believe that can still happen for me, Meghan and Harry.'
He pauses and looks again at the his favourite picture of his daughter. 'I always hoped that I would be as close to Meghan's child as I was to her when she was a child.'
'Private jets prove they're hypocrites'
Thomas Markle has accused his daughter and Prince Harry of displaying the same 'hypocritical' approach to the environment as they have adopted with him.
Asked about recent stories criticising the couple for taking at least four private jets this summer while lecturing people on the need to save the planet, he told The Mail on Sunday: 'I feel sorry for them in a way because they brought this on themselves. You can't say one thing and do another.
'Everyone raves about how gracious and wonderful they are, but they are not wonderful to their own family. That's hypocritical.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have attracted criticism for their use of private jets
'You can't portray yourself as being charitable and bringing people together and then ghost your own father and your entire family. Their treatment of me has left a lot to be desired.
'I've still never met my son-in-law. Why couldn't Prince Harry have got on a plane and flown to see me to ask for her hand? He obviously has no problem getting on private jets.
'If he wants to come and see me on a private jet, there's an airport near here in Tijuana, and San Diego is just over the border. There are dozens of commercial flights from England to San Diego and Los Angeles every day.'
The couple's private jet flights include a trip to visit Sir Elton John at his home in the South of France and to Ibiza to celebrate Meghan's birthday.
Sir Elton and other celebrity friends have defended Meghan and Harry.
George Clooney called negative stories 'unjust' and Sir Elton condemned the 'distorted and malicious accounts' of the couple’s holiday at his villa in Nice, saying he paid for their private jet.
Meghan's best friend, stylist Jessica Mulroney, even called criticism of Meghan's private jet jaunts 'racist'.
But Mr Markle said: 'I don't think it's racist. I think it's a shame that Meghan and Harry say one thing and act another way. Whoever is advising them isn't doing a great job.
- Thomas Markle feels he is being unfairly vilified and cut out of his grandson's life
- He says has only ever seen a picture of his new grandson Archie on the internet
- Mr Markle takes issue with Meghan's celebrity friends launching attacks on him
- He also says Meghan's claim she paid her own way through college is untrue
- He said: 'I always hoped that I would be as close to Meghan's child as I was to her'
PUBLISHED: 22:00 BST, 31 August 2019 | UPDATED: 03:50 BST, 1 September 2019
Both photographs are, says Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan Markle, poignant daily reminders of the rift that now exists between himself, the daughter he loves and his son-in-law Prince Harry.
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Warm memory: Meghan and her dad at a football game in her college days. She claims she paid her way through university - something Mr Markle disputes
'Private jets prove they're hypocrites'
Thomas Markle has accused his daughter and Prince Harry of displaying the same 'hypocritical' approach to the environment as they have adopted with him.
Asked about recent stories criticising the couple for taking at least four private jets this summer while lecturing people on the need to save the planet, he told The Mail on Sunday: 'I feel sorry for them in a way because they brought this on themselves. You can't say one thing and do another.
'Everyone raves about how gracious and wonderful they are, but they are not wonderful to their own family. That's hypocritical.
'You can't portray yourself as being charitable and bringing people together and then ghost your own father and your entire family. Their treatment of me has left a lot to be desired.
'I've still never met my son-in-law. Why couldn't Prince Harry have got on a plane and flown to see me to ask for her hand? He obviously has no problem getting on private jets.
'If he wants to come and see me on a private jet, there's an airport near here in Tijuana, and San Diego is just over the border. There are dozens of commercial flights from England to San Diego and Los Angeles every day.'
The couple's private jet flights include a trip to visit Sir Elton John at his home in the South of France and to Ibiza to celebrate Meghan's birthday.
Sir Elton and other celebrity friends have defended Meghan and Harry.
George Clooney called negative stories 'unjust' and Sir Elton condemned the 'distorted and malicious accounts' of the couple’s holiday at his villa in Nice, saying he paid for their private jet.
Meghan's best friend, stylist Jessica Mulroney, even called criticism of Meghan's private jet jaunts 'racist'.
But Mr Markle said: 'I don't think it's racist. I think it's a shame that Meghan and Harry say one thing and act another way. Whoever is advising them isn't doing a great job.'
- 'It was a freezing cold day and I had to keep running off to buy more clothes to keep us warm,' he recalls. 'The wind was blowing straight off Lake Michigan but Meghan and I had the best time.
'I love that picture because that was such a happy day. I have so many happy memories like that.
'There was never any problem between Meghan and me until recently. I've stayed quiet because Meghan was pregnant with Archie but I'm speaking out now because they and their PR people are continuing to ghost me out of her life.
'Of course I'm disappointed not to see Archie. I had hoped becoming a mother would mellow Meghan and she would reach out.'
He takes issue with celebrity friends of Meghan and Harry launching personal attacks on him.
'People who don't know me make judgments,' he says.
'My daughter's new A-list friends have no right to speak about me until they know me.'
Mr Markle says he has apologised repeatedly for staging photographs with the paparazzi, which appeared in this newspaper, just days before the wedding.
'I was approached by a photo agency which said it would be a way to improve my image because the press were making me look like a homeless guy.
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Mr Markle never received an invitation to his daughter's wedding and he was forced to abandon plans to walk his daughter down the aisle after suffering two heart attacks
'It was a huge mistake. I wanted to apologise to the Royal Family publicly but Meghan and Harry told me not to.
'So I texted Jason Knauf, who was Harry and Meghan's then press secretary, and he asked me what I'd like to say? I said I wanted to apologise to the Queen and the Royal Family and that I meant no harm. That apology never came out. I don't know why.'
When he suffered two heart attacks and ended up in hospital, Mr Markle never heard afterwards from either his daughter or son-in-law and he was forced to cancel his flight across the Atlantic to the wedding on doctor's orders.
'All I'd like to ask people is, "How would you feel if your father had a heart attack?" I texted them [Harry and Meghan] from my hospital bed and told them where I was. I have the texts to prove it. Yet never once has Meghan ever asked me how I'm doing. Not then, not since.'
He has been stung by critics, particularly those in the UK, who complain that he rarely sees his other grown-up grandchildren – Tyler and TJ, the sons of Tom Jr, and Noelle, Christopher and Ashleigh, the children of his eldest daughter Samantha.
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In Meghan's first major speech in Fiji last year (pictured), she claimed that she paid her own way through university
'Brits don't realise the scale of the distances between us,' he says. 'When American families move apart from each other there are thousands of miles between us.
'We stay in touch but it's not that easy. You can't just jump in the car and go like you guys can. We stay in touch the best we can.'
Most upsetting, says Mr Markle, is the fact that his daughter, in her first major speech in Fiji last year, claimed that she paid her own way through university and would not have been able to afford the reported $200,000 tuition fees at Northwestern University without financial aid.
Speaking to a group of students at the University of the South Pacific, Meghan said: 'The journey of higher education is an incredible, impactful and pivotal one.
'I am also fully aware of the challenges of being able to afford this level of schooling for many people around the world, myself included.
'It was with scholarships, financial aid programmes, and work study from my earnings from a job on campus that went directly towards my tuition that I was able to attend university, and without question it was worth every effort.'
Not true, says her father, who remained silent at the time because his daughter was pregnant.
'I'm sorry but that is completely untrue. I paid every penny of her tuition and I have the bank statements to prove it.
'I paid for her trips to Spain and England. I paid for her internship in Argentina.'
For his part, Mr Markle admits it was a 'point of pride' to pay off his daughter's fees even after she became an independently wealthy woman. 'I told Meg I would pay for her education and I did. It's what any father would do.'
He has revealed the contents of a letter sent to Meghan's mother Doria five days after the Duchess's speech in Fiji.
Mr Markle said: 'I always hoped that I would be as close to Meghan's child as I was to her when she was a child'
In it, he wrote: 'Meghan is saying she wants nothing to do with me and she worked her way through college all by herself. I haven't said anything about it, but I'm sure reporters are checking at Northwestern to see who paid her way through school. She cannot change history.'
Mr Markle is tired of waiting for his daughter and Prince Harry to forgive him. 'I'm sick of the lies. I'm sick of being vilified and shut out of their lives.
'I always upheld my responsibilities as a father. Meghan's comments about paying her way through college are offensive to me.
'I don't want anything from Meghan or Harry but I'm not going to shut up until the whole truth is out there. I will continue to contradict anything said about me that isn't true.
'I have to stand up for myself. I'm going to carry on speaking and I'm not going to shut up,' he added.
'No father deserves this kind of abuse when he's been that good to his daughter. Ask anyone who knows us both. I've been very kind and generous to my daughter.'
On Meghan's old website Tig, a lifestyle blog which she took down after her engagement, she repeatedly credited her father for turning her into the woman she is today.
There was one famous post about how she was given a form at school and asked to identify her ethnicity.
Meghan didn't know which box to chose because she didn't want to offend either her mother or father.
She came home and asked her father who told her: 'Draw your own box and say who you are and I will back you up.'
'I told her I'd back her up because she was going to hand the form back to a teacher,' he explained.
'I wanted her to know I had her back. Those moments she cites which show her strength and independence, a lot of those came from me.
'Everybody thinks I had nothing to do with her after Doria and I divorced. The truth is she lived with me most of the time until she went off to college.
'I believe all family differences can be resolved and I believe that can still happen for me, Meghan and Harry.'
He pauses and looks again at the his favourite picture of his daughter. 'I always hoped that I would be as close to Meghan's child as I was to her when she was a child.'
- Mr Markle neither asked for nor received any payment for this article.
'Private jets prove they're hypocrites'
Thomas Markle has accused his daughter and Prince Harry of displaying the same 'hypocritical' approach to the environment as they have adopted with him.
Asked about recent stories criticising the couple for taking at least four private jets this summer while lecturing people on the need to save the planet, he told The Mail on Sunday: 'I feel sorry for them in a way because they brought this on themselves. You can't say one thing and do another.
'Everyone raves about how gracious and wonderful they are, but they are not wonderful to their own family. That's hypocritical.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have attracted criticism for their use of private jets
'You can't portray yourself as being charitable and bringing people together and then ghost your own father and your entire family. Their treatment of me has left a lot to be desired.
'I've still never met my son-in-law. Why couldn't Prince Harry have got on a plane and flown to see me to ask for her hand? He obviously has no problem getting on private jets.
'If he wants to come and see me on a private jet, there's an airport near here in Tijuana, and San Diego is just over the border. There are dozens of commercial flights from England to San Diego and Los Angeles every day.'
The couple's private jet flights include a trip to visit Sir Elton John at his home in the South of France and to Ibiza to celebrate Meghan's birthday.
Sir Elton and other celebrity friends have defended Meghan and Harry.
George Clooney called negative stories 'unjust' and Sir Elton condemned the 'distorted and malicious accounts' of the couple’s holiday at his villa in Nice, saying he paid for their private jet.
Meghan's best friend, stylist Jessica Mulroney, even called criticism of Meghan's private jet jaunts 'racist'.
But Mr Markle said: 'I don't think it's racist. I think it's a shame that Meghan and Harry say one thing and act another way. Whoever is advising them isn't doing a great job.
