Anyone else think Thomas Markle is not coming across well?

[LadyLightning]

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.

blackandwhite stop twisting things. I just watched this, and TM clearly states that HE asked her if she would like to come stay with him and she said yes.

Nothing much to read there, if an 11yr old loves both parents and sees them often, they would probably answer the same.
Stop lying.

I do wish posters would stop imagining they know a person based on a lot of online bitching, the person's father touted his family to the media and that is extremely low and despicable

TM squandered the lottery money on a doggy diamond business, that went bust.

Apparently, he even hid the money from Doria when they divorced.

There is nothing on his IMDB page since 1991 - so I am a bit surprised by his sizeable pension too. It sounds like a lot of money for one person to be living on. Then as he admitted, he is getting royalties from his photos. But something is off, as he lives in inexpensive Mexico, is he giving his money to Samantha or gambling or something?

The part where he says he omitted some parts because it's too hurtful, I guess is where MM says she has been financially supporting him - as stated in her lawsuit.

www.bylineinvestigates.com/mail/2019/11/15/noen2cgslou82nzpgi0g3mpjebpd6i

He was also offered someone to come help him and he did not want that.

Every time he squints and has that frown line on his face, he looks as self satisfied and smug as Samatha in her I'll take MM down mode.

Funny enough, they don't seem to have been as needy during MM first marriage.

He just basically told us about how he lied over and over again, so I guess he will tell us in the next documentary that he lied. He let things slip a bit when he said he was not getting attention.
The only part I felt sorry for him was then, because I suspect that when MM is with these men (TM,PM) she sort of shines her light on them, and if she turns away you are left in a cold, dark shadow.
He will also learn that the press will leave him out cold, he can testify and when they are done with him he is on his own.

The truth is that Thomas Markle is a selfish, manipulative man. I think that he probably wasnt the best father, but Meghan has covered for him him for many years. She knows that her father is a waste of space
I believe that Meghan has been financially supporting her father for a number of years and this will all come out in court.
You can bet your bottom dollar , that Thomas Markle will suddenly fall ill if he is summoned to appear in court. He knows that his lies will be revealed
I cannot imagine that Meghan, who spends much of her time doing charity work would abandon her own father. He himself admitted that she cried when he wasn’t able to attend her wedding. He has been the author of his own downfall.

@wowfudge. Oh thanks for the correction. I thought Kate was his sister.

/sarcasm

Lowest form of wit Hanna. You may consider your BIL a brother, many don't. My point is that people's family relationships differ. Your views are influenced by your experience. Mine differ.

I cannot imagine that Meghan, who spends much of her time doing charity work would abandon her own father. Are you really that naive?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cme28xx5grnt/charities-sexual-misconduct-scandal
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Cash

Lots of posters on these Meghan-bashing threads seem to resort to calling those whose views are different naive. And it's always those who are criticising her.

Lots of posters on these Meghan-bashing threads seem to resort to calling those whose views are different naive. And it's always those who are criticising her. You think all people involved in charity work are good people? Really? Have you read my links?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camila_Batmanghelidjh

It sounds like a lot of money for one person to be living on

California pensions (if you manage to have one) can be rather insane for reasons I fail to understand

@derxa

There are plenty of examples from which to choose as well. To be fair most of them - if any - are duchesses...

The Camila Batmanghelidjh one was notorious for a number of reasons. And look - she was a CBE.

The Camila Batmanghelidjh one was notorious for a number of reasons. And look - she was a CBE. I agree. Cameron made a right chump of himself there.

derxa just sick to death of reading baseless, considering I doubt very much any of the posters know her, criticism of the Duchess of Sussex and the fact that when anyone has the temerity to ask why a pp has criticised her, etc. they just get told they are naive.

It's almost as though some pps think they some special insight. Based on no personal knowledge of her at all.

If I were the Duchess I'd want some if the proceeds her Father has made through touting her to the media then I'd tell him to fuck right off

then I'd tell him to fuck right off I think that ship has sailed.

I think their relationship as father and daughter was ok before TM took staged photos.

The TV interview was about their relationship, how the media depicted him, how he ended up taking the staged photos, his regret, the rift between them and no hope of turning back.

I feel sorry for both of them. I think they are victims of the media.

Can someone who courts the media be a victim of it? TM was naive and was mislead by an unscrupulous photographer, but Meghan?

This thread is a good illustration of why abusive parents everywhere get away with their abuse.

To be fair, few of them are duchesses...

Correction^

Exactly user.
I think some posters really need to have a look at The Stately Homes thread. However, I suspect they are the type of person that is being written about

I think he's doing this all for money. He doesn't care about Meghan. He just wants to sell stories to the press for a quick buck.

It takes a special kind of dick to sell out his daughter to the media, regardless of anything really.

I know the Meghan bashers need everything to be her fault but no sane, loving parent would do this to their child.