Meghan's letter to her dad in The Sunday Fail

[IdaBWells]

really? Is this for real? She sent her dad a letter last August and he said she hasn't tried to contact her. He just gave the letter to the tabloids. If this is real he hasn't told the truth about anything.

Grab the popcorn.

I really don’t understand some people’s thinking. If you look at all the evidence Thomas and Samantha (Grant) Markle have acted atrociously and yet still people on here attack Meghan.

Can anyone explain why they’re interested in this?

I think MM wrote it in the knowledge that it would be published in full and therefore chose every word and phrase carefully. This is her public rebuttal to everything he has accused her of.

I thought the same when I saw the extracts from the letter. You can tell from the tone, content and style of it that this was not written to a parent but for public consumption.

I feel like I have been goaded myself by the DM! I saw headlines on my news app and have generally stayed away for all of this insanity but read it anyway.

Now I feel it just seems very unreal. I don’t blame Meg at all for her toxic relatives but the letter in appearance and substance feels more for an audience, just as everyone is saying - that she expected it to be published. I really don’t know what to make of any of it but feel played by all sides but particularly by the toxic mail!!!

I think Meg and Harry should stop inviting friends and others to talk to tabloids and focus on the upcoming birth. The whole thing is becoming an insane media storm/swamp. Regret I gave the DM a click and will go back to boycott.

Tinky Winky was a serial killer?!

Perhaps the whole Markle family are narcissists and play for effect?
The half brother is a nightmare too. I really feel sorry for Harry. He really has married into a complete travesty of a family. Given his background, it’s tragic.

Her letter maybe carefully written but do people forget who is she married to? She is with the RF now and so everything she does must go through an advisor from the RF. She can't just do whatever she likes like so many people think. So far they didn't deal that wisely with her relatives. I can't forget how they singled out her mum from everyone else during the wedding ceremony. It was cringing and embarrassing. Couldn't the RF brake some traditions and sit her closer to everyone else? Didn't Harry see the tag which was still attached to Meghan's dress during the trip? In my opinion the RF didn't deal wisely with her relatives right from the beginning. I don't believe at all she was granted to act alone to deal with that matter. Why would she bring this on herself? The public spews so much hatred on her through the DM especially who encourage public bullying by posting nearly daily articles about Meghan and then publishing horrible comments in her direction. This newspaper should be a role model in anti-bullying and not the opposite.

Such a beautifully hand written letter, maybe even with a fountain pen? No typing or emailing here. You’d almost think someone was thinking about how this letter would look published in the press.

Imagine being in a horribly abusive and toxic relationship with family members and being gaslit by a sizeable section of the UK. It’s all your fault Meghan....

I think MM wrote it in the knowledge that it would be published in full and therefore chose every word and phrase carefully. This is her public rebuttal to everything he has accused her of.

Of course she did - everything her father had done to that point suggested he would, at some point, leak the letter and she needed to be prepared for that. If it was filled with spelling and grammatical mistakes and a 'fuck you, Dad', which is what I bet is what she wished she could write she'd have been damned for that too.

I’ve always felt sorry for her, poor thing didn’t have a clue what she was really letting herself in for.
I think harry did well to marry someone so used to publicity, fame, reporters etc. as the last thing he needed was to marry someone as vulnerable as his mum had been.

However I’m not sure they could have foreseen what a massive massive shower of shits her family would be.
As for the letter, I assume she wrote it as one last chance to re connect with her father, if he could prove he cared for her by backing off with the press maybe their relationship could have stood a chance of being repaired? And of course she wrote it carefully as if others would read it as she was probably about 95% sure her scummy dad would leak it at some point! Anyhow he failed her (completely reasonable if you ask me) test. And they will never have a relationship again due to his greed for money fame or whatever it is he’s after.

I hope the poor woman can learn to ignore all press and enjoy her baby and new husband in peace.

@bowchicawowow

Nah, she wrote it alright, knew it would end up in the press...her dads's a real piece of work.....9/10 people would have written an email.

I dont really blame her for getting her PR machine moving, after all, she has had an extraordnary amount of vitriol and even after they were booed at Albert Hall in January, KP has done absolutely nothing to help her.

Good lord, the victim blaming on this thread!

Her Dad described it as a "hateful" letter but I thought it was quite restrained given the circumstances. Her handwriting is beautiful and if you had a gift like that a letter is exactly where you would use it- especially if you're presenting an image as being strong and in control. Makes sense to do a letter as if you suspect it's going to be released you don't want your email address plastered over the papers, even if you don't use it any more.

It's obvious to most people that the Markle side aren't the most honest historians and their motivations are entirely self-serving. I have plenty of sympathy for Meghan, but as others have pointed out having her friends mention "the letter" only poked the bear who, recently, had been back in his cave. It was obvious he wouldn't not react to it- so why do it? Is she worried that there's more to come? You'd have thought he'd have run out of stories to sell by now.

Incomers to the British family all ride the wave of bad press at one time- with the imminent birth all she had to do was wait it out and not look at the papers until this baby is born when it'll be more positive. Her father will keep cropping up over the next year or two until it becomes apparent he has nothing more to say other than play the victim. It would be better to accept that and try and deal with it rather than try and control the narrative, because it only drags it out.

TinkyWinky is a cereal killer. She finds her victims, Shreddies up the bodies and then buries the evidence in a bag of Granola. She is a very Special K iller.

(Misses the point of the thread again)

I’m pretty sure she wrote that letter knowing it would eventually be released.

I think this has been carefully orchestrated to flush out Thomas Markle. We now know that TM will not see Baby Sussex and we have sympathy and understanding for this. We will support H&M in their decision as TM can clearly not be trusted to see the baby, take selfies in his phone and sell the photos to the tabloids.

Alternatively, if this had not happened now, TM would have (he still might) join the crowds outside the Lindo Wing with his “poor me,poor me” ritual complaining that he was being shut out.

Hopefully this letter and his betrayal will get him to STFU and H&M can start their family life in a bit of peace.

Banjax I have never said she didn’t write it.

Also, to PP wondering why she didn't just text or email - if she'd done that, she'd have no doubt been accused of getting someone else to draft and send them on her behalf. If she wrote a letter her family couldn't claim it was faked.

I think Meghan and her dad are both narcissists, so this is going to carry on for quite some time.

The letter's weird and, like a few people have said, very clearly aimed at an international audience, rather than dear old Daddy.

"...your other daughter, who I barely know..." is maybe one of the coldest things I've ever read. There are multiple photos of Meghan with her half-sister, yet she tries to wipe her from history. Cold as ice.

One interesting nugget in that article is that it says Meghan hasn't seen Samantha since 2008. So long before she met Harry and before she started on Suits. So the narrative of her dropping her sister as soon as she became famous is false as they'd long touch before that.

Meh @ElizabethG81, that's hardly unusual. I have much older half-siblings from my father's first marriage who I barely know.

That she hasn't seen Samantha since 2008 has come up before.

Samantha keeps saying she has photos showing how close they are but all we ever see is the same one photo at a graduation, clearly from a long time ago.

As a PP said, I know toxic when I see it and Thomas and Samantha are out of the textbook.

Meghan certainly receives many vitriolic comments, but she is not the only Royal to do so.There is a site called "Royaldish" where the Crown Princess of Denmark is at the receiving end of countless horrific remarks by seemingly demented posters. She is a good looking woman by any normal standard but is reviled in the site as some sort of deformed gargoyle. The odd thing is she looks almost identical to her sister in law, Princess Marie, who can do no wrong in the eyes of the Dishers, who continuously remark on her beauty and general wonderfulness.