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AMANDA PLATELL: Is this the moment we should all feel sorry for Meghan? I have been among her harshest critics... but she may have been harbouring a deeply disturbing secret all along
How devastating for the Sussexes after their return to Blighty.
Meghan is greeted with headlines that her father, Thomas Markle, is being investigated over ‘sickening child sex abuse images’.
Her half-brother, Thomas Markle Jnr, claimed he discovered the stash at his father’s Philippines home and handed it to police.
Is this the moment we should actually feel sorry for Meghan?
Could it be that the ‘devoted’ Dad who raised her after her mother left, had a darker side?
And could this explain why she dropped him and refused to let him see her children? Had she, while being pilloried as a cruel uncaring daughter, been harbouring a deeply disturbing secret – that her father was a paedophile?
Certainly, her statement yesterday implied as much. She said: ‘In 2018, a letter was sent to the Metropolitan Police and Royalty and Specialist Protection. That letter was subsequently shared with me. It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my father.’ She added that this explained her decision not to allow Markle to have any contact with Archie and Lilibet. It was, she said, ‘to protect them’.
Crikey, this extraordinary news raises so many more questions than answers. We know Markle is under investigation in the Philippines and the FBI is considering taking action. We know, too, that he is protesting his innocence.
What an unholy mess, and what an awful moment for the Sussexes as they try to relaunch themselves in Britain.
I have been among their harshest critics and yes, I have accused them – perhaps wrongly with the benefit of hindsight – of abandoning Meghan’s father.
Right now, I feel sorry for them, although given the new family turmoil, none of us should rule out another Netflix series.