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Anyone else think Thomas Markle is not coming across well?

255 replies

LadyLightning · 22/01/2020 21:30

He just sounds like a nightmare dad, despite doing his best to present himself as the victim here. The comment about Harry being his family whether he liked it or not? And 'what was happening was not making me happy@. He sounds like a self centred man, I think she may be much better off with no contact.

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brusselsprout5 · 22/01/2020 22:19

I feel really sorry for him too. He's not handled the press well but he has tried to - the staging of photos. Who knows how anyone would cope with that level of attention. I think MM & PH should have stepped in to protect him somehow from the beginning. He obviously had a lot of time on his hands & kept googling himself & saw it looked bad. I guess the money must be tempting but overall I think he's crying out for attention & love from his daughter. Very sad situation. I couldn't abandon my father like she has & I think it does make her look bad.

divawithafever · 22/01/2020 22:25

The poor man is desperate - not financially. He's desperate for the truth to out and to repair his relationship with his daughter who's frozen him out in the most cold hearted, callous way.

GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat · 22/01/2020 22:26

‘They owe me’ come on! She’s the callous one?

SF1269 · 22/01/2020 22:26

Well her mother managed to not get caught up in it all and has stayed loyal to her daughter and dignified.

He is a horrible, horrible person to sell out his own daughter, I don't think there could be anything lower than trodding on and insulting your own child. He is disgusting. Most decent fathers would support their child and not dig the knife in and twist it while they are already going through a difficult time. She must feel so betrayed by him. He is the utter dregs of a father.

L0bstersLass · 22/01/2020 22:27

@divawithafever

I don't think he's coming across "well" as such more like the poor guy had this all dumped on him and no coping mechanisms in place.

Her mother had it all dumped on her too and has been a model of elegance and dignity.

divawithafever · 22/01/2020 22:30

She'd already frozen him out before he did anything wrong. Harry never bothered to even meet him. He heard about his grandchild on the radio ffs. Harry bangs on about mental health but if they can't see her Dad is suffering they're more dumb than I thought.

ColaFreezePop · 22/01/2020 22:32

@SF1269 and @L0bstersLass but her mother isn't white and according to the gutter press straight out of Crompton so should be able to deal with it. There as her father is a "poor white male"....

HollowTalk · 22/01/2020 22:32

I've just watched this, too. I felt for him at first - who wouldn't feel awful if they brought up a child and had a good relationship with them, but then lost them to their husband? But once he started talking about money, he really lost me. It was interesting that she didn't acknowledge her dad had paid her college fees - I would love to know the truth about that.

divawithafever · 22/01/2020 22:33

He put her through college and was clearly very present and loving in her life she even acknowledges this in her 2015 speech but then she sees his face won't fit at a royal wedding so she writes that letter that has no bearing on what happened knowing it would be published to make her look like the good guy.

ColaFreezePop · 22/01/2020 22:34

@divawithafever if your father-in-law told the press about a phone call you had with him, would you continual to talk to him? Particularly if your job was to be non-political?

SouthWestmom · 22/01/2020 22:34

Hmm I don't know. Parents are just people aren't they?

Sounds like M and H were already doing things their way and avoiding the RF helping - telling him not to apologise, not to talk to anyone but no actual help.

Must be horrible to feel like your truth isn't out there. The People magazine friends thing was pretty shitty.

Strawberrypancakes · 22/01/2020 22:35

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MintyMabel · 22/01/2020 22:35

who wouldn't feel awful if they brought up a child and had a good relationship with them, but then lost them to their husband?

Nobody who has a good relationship with their parents, turns their back on them when they marry for no good reason.

theendoftheendoftheend · 22/01/2020 22:35

I don't know, on one hand I feel a bit sorry for him, on the other there is something about the way he talks about their relationship that makes me feel uncomfortable. I'm watching on catch up.

NauticalDisaster · 22/01/2020 22:36

He is such an embarrassment! He comes across creepy and narcissistic. I feel so sorry for Meghan to have a father such as him.

ColaFreezePop · 22/01/2020 22:36

@HollowTalk even one of the tabloids stalking her claims that he lied about the college fees.

usingname · 22/01/2020 22:37

I feel sorry for him and think he's been treated badly by M and H

TheMostHappy · 22/01/2020 22:37

"THEY OWE ME" .... OmG she's going to be raging!
Shock

mrwalkensir · 22/01/2020 22:39

um, he didn't bring her up?

tolerable · 22/01/2020 22:42

your dad-is not debateable.His no! role in life-for you is to love you completely,without conditions. He failed,then got up and tries to market excuses.

Rainbunny · 22/01/2020 22:46

I actually feel sorry for him for the first time now. Yes he is definitely self-pitying and I can imagine what it must be like for MM to grow up with a manipulative parent as he seems to be.

That said, he really does seem to be doing badly and there is truth in his frustrations that neither the palace or H&M themselves did anything to help prepare him for the nonstop intrusion of the press into his life before the wedding. Other than lecture him about not talking to the press, which was easy for them to do safely behind high palace walls, they really left him to be picked apart and followed around in his depressing daily life.

Whatever has gone wrong in his relationship with MM and whoever is to blame, it was awful to leave this man, now in his seventies and living a pretty shitty lonely looking life exposed to the world's press to turn into a pathetic object of mockery. I remember reading at the time that palace people wanted to reach out to him and take him in hand but H&M wouldn't allow it. I have no idea if that is true but honestly, wtf were they thinking?

heatherro · 22/01/2020 22:51

The apple hasn't fallen too far from the tree.

SpecLosers · 22/01/2020 22:52

Silence is Golden in many ways.

Campurp · 22/01/2020 22:53

I do not feel sorry for him one bit. Even if he was being hounded, all he had to do was keep his mouth closed or wish the couple well and close the door. Yet he decided to court the media attention along with his other daughter.
MM’s mother managed to stay out of any media drama, yet he’s made this all about him and clearly gets a kick out of it.

He comes across like a manipulative, narcissistic Twit and I feel sorry for her.

Seeingadistance · 22/01/2020 22:54

I’m watching it on catch up, and I feel sorry for the guy tbh. He’s made some poor decisions - who hasn’t? - and he didn’t ask for any of this. He would have benefitted from advice and support on how to deal with the media pressure.