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Where is the lie? Its possible to have more than one reason to cut off your Dad and there is plenty when it comes to Thomas. I don't find it weird she didn't go running to tell anyone in 201i when it was just a letter of accusation no substantial proof or evidence and after being told it was being investigated, naturally anyone would wait for that to conclude.

I find Harry and Meghan generally quite annoying but I do feel sympathy for her about this. It would be horrendous to discover this about her own father, regardless of their previous estrangement.

I agree, I'm normally last to defend them but I have enormous sympathy for her on this. I'm not sure how any of this is her fault or how she can be dragged into this mess.

None of us know when in 2018 the letter from the Met was shown to Meghan or what the contents were. And if she was assured the relevant authorities were looking into it, what else was she meant to do? We don't know what was advised to her or what the initial outcomes was.

SoI am not a fan of many things Meghan has done but in this case the only person to be demonised is her father if the allegations are correct. Meghan can't be held responsible for any of this.

It's also important that we don't forget the victims in this which is what happen when people start trying to spin stories over what she should and shouldn't have done.

I do not understand the unrelenting hatred and hostility towards Megan from some posters on here.

My theory is jealousy - they can't stand that she's wealthy, beautiful and married a prince.

Everything she does is wrong, she can't win.

Meghan absolutely has no responsibility for what her father may have done (I’m phrasing it this way as he has not yet been charged or convicted).

I am struggling with the fact that she was made aware of something along these lines, 8 years ago, and settled with being “assured” that it was being looked in to. That doesn’t sit right, for me. She had/has way more resources available to her than your everyday person, I can’t believe she’d not want updates/press for further action. That’s 8 years for him to be doing god knows what. I’m not talking about her speaking publicly about it, but I am interested in whether she pushed for further info over the years or not.

There are a lot of questions that need answering here, not just from M:

When was the letter received by the Met (and was it dated)?
When did they inform M?
What did the Met do (if anything)?
Was TM left unchecked for 8 years - if so, why?
T Jr apparently called an FBI hotline over 3 months ago - why was there no follow up from them?
Given there was no follow-up, why didn’t he try another avenue?

Horrific situation, but relevant authorities really need to ramp up investigations asap.

How many more times? Meghan herself put out THE narrative on why she wasn’t speaking to him - a fairly trivial matter of organised pap pictures, a matter that has looked more and more trivial as the years have gone on and Meghan’s own behaviour has been no better. She didn’t have to do that, she could have kept quiet about a private, family matter, but she did talk about it, as part of her lucrative media moan fest. Nobody made up HER explanation for why she cut him off. She and her husband also talk constantly about valuing family ties. She asked people to believe her words and value her accordingly, because media and public attention and credibility is what she desires. If the public and media listened to HER narrative and believed her and responded accordingly, then that is on HER. Second guessing that there must be some other (extreme and appalling) reason doesn’t cut it when the principle herself is the one giving out the information on massive, lucrative platforms that have been scrutinised (one would hope) for veracity like the Netflix doc and Harry’s book. Taken in the context of her warm and loving publicly available words about her father from her Tig days and her speech to the UN before her marriage, why on earth would anyone think the worst about her father or their relationship?

Nobody here knows the full truth, but stop judging the public for believing the explanation that one of the principles involved chose to put into the public domain.

I agree, I'm normally last to defend them but I have enormous sympathy for her on this. I'm not sure how any of this is her fault or how she can be dragged into this mess.

None of us know when in 2018 the letter from the Met was shown to Meghan or what the contents were. And if she was assured the relevant authorities were looking into it, what else was she meant to do? We don't know what was advised to her or what the initial outcomes was.

SoI am not a fan of many things Meghan has done but in this case the only person to be demonised is her father if the allegations are correct. Meghan can't be held responsible for any of this.

It's also important that we don't forget the victims in this which is what happen when people start trying to spin stories over what she should and shouldn't have done.

I think you need some basic compassion.

When there are issues surrounding SA, none of us have a right to know anything except the relevant authorities involved.

Meghan may have had many valid reasons for not speaking out about this publicly. She may have been advised not to do so.

She may have thought having a dad with those alleged charges would damage her reputation and that of the RF? The RF themselves may have advised her to keep quiet and that was one of the sources of their rift? Who knows?

Either way, this is a horrible thing for her to deal with. Think how you would feel if one of your parents was alleged to have done such vile things?

I think you need some basic compassion.

When there are issues surrounding SA, none of us have a right to know anything except the relevant authorities involved.

Meghan may have had many valid reasons for not speaking out about this publicly. She may have been advised not to do so.

She may have thought having a dad with those alleged charges would damage her reputation and that of the RF? The RF themselves may have advised her to keep quiet and that was one of the sources of their rift? Who knows?

Either way, this is a horrible thing for her to deal with. Think how you would feel if one of your parents was alleged to have done such vile things?

That is one of the things we need to know. Who, when, what sort (a single line rumour or investigatable lead?) and what was done about bit

I think you need some basic compassion.

When there are issues surrounding SA, none of us have a right to know anything except the relevant authorities involved.

Meghan may have had many valid reasons for not speaking out about this publicly. She may have been advised not to do so.

She may have thought having a dad with those alleged charges would damage her reputation and that of the RF? The RF themselves may have advised her to keep quiet and that was one of the sources of their rift? Who knows?

Either way, this is a horrible thing for her to deal with. Think how you would feel if one of your parents was alleged to have done such vile things?

You don’t need to know anything of the sort.

Why is it remotely any of your business?

The people that need to know are the victims and their families and the people investigating the alleged crimes.

She may have thought having a dad with those alleged charges would damage her reputation and that of the RF?

This is child abuse we are talking about? Keeping quiet is not an option for most people.

Exactly. There was no need for MM to make that statement saying she had known for years. How would that make the victims and families feel? That someone who had the ear of the world kept silent.

Id agree with you entirely if she hadnt announced she had known for years. But her statement has unfortunately put her in the know. And she kept quiet. I really hope no children were abused after 2018 becuase if she knew and TMs other children didn't, then she has the responsibility to kick up a fuss and not brush it under the carpet and make things up on Oprah and Netflix about the estrangement. It's people in positions of power and influence keeping quiet that helped Epstein.

In fact she misdirected attention to people thinking they were estranged due to pap shots. Not anything more awful.

But he hasn’t been charged as far as I know. Nothing has been proven.

There are many, many cases involving SA where there is valid suspicion but no proof.

Now it sounds like more evidence has come to light, but back then she could hardly go public with just allegations could she?

As Meghan herself said: silence is complicity. While numerous, trivial journalists have been chasing after TMsnr and treating him as one half of an (in effect) celebrity fall out, serious journalists could have been looking into his actual activities and why the RF exercises poor judgment in these matters. They weren’t though, because the explanation they were given by Meghan herself created a massive squirrel to chase.

I agree, I'm normally last to defend them but I have enormous sympathy for her on this. I'm not sure how any of this is her fault or how she can be dragged into this mess.

None of us know when in 2018 the letter from the Met was shown to Meghan or what the contents were. And if she was assured the relevant authorities were looking into it, what else was she meant to do? We don't know what was advised to her or what the initial outcomes was.

SoI am not a fan of many things Meghan has done but in this case the only person to be demonised is her father if the allegations are correct. Meghan can't be held responsible for any of this.

It's also important that we don't forget the victims in this which is what happen when people start trying to spin stories over what she should and shouldn't have done.

But in her statement, she knew because she was shown a letter by the Met police who she has said told her it would be investigated. She clearly hasn't kept this to herself.

What else was she meant to do in this situation? If she is shown a letter by the Met police force then the onus is on them not Meghan to be investigating this and following up to the relevant authorities.

What do people mean she should be kicking up a fuss? She isn't responsible for any of this. We don't know what the outcome of the initial investigation was. It may be the allegations were found to not to be true at that point and if that's the case, what was Meghan have meant to have done.

Once more: SHE HAD THE RIGHT AND OPTION TO SAY NOTHING AT ALL ON THE MATTER IF HER ESTRANGEMENT. Instead she chose to talk about it for money, and give out a non/partial truth. I am defending for the public who are now being vilified for believing in the explanation she did not need to put out into the public domain but has maintained for 8 years as truth.

I’ll reserve my compassion for any victims if there transpires to be any.

Once more: SHE HAD THE RIGHT AND OPTION TO SAY NOTHING AT ALL ON THE MATTER IF HER ESTRANGEMENT. Instead she chose to talk about it for money, and give out a non/partial truth. I am defending for the public who are now being vilified for believing in the explanation she did not need to put out into the public domain but has maintained for 8 years as truth.

I’ll reserve my compassion for any victims if there transpires to be any.

Are you serious?

It wasn’t up to her to speak out once the case was in the hands of the authorities.

That was their job.