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.

Quite agree Laurie, he is pond life. I was prepared to give the man the benefit of the doubt before that interview. However if the press didn't bribe and encourage him.......
......well he could have maintained a dignified silence.

Haven't heard anything from the sister recently. I expect it will be her turn next.

Her mother has had continued support and been included. He's been cut adrift. You can't compare their behaviour who knows how Doria would have behaved were Meghan to have ghosted her too.

Yawn - how do you know that CapaldiL?

That's bollocks Capaldi
You cannot possibly know personal details like that because you're not privy to them so quit inventing stuff

IMO he was portrayed very negatively in the UK media from the start. He looked more like a vagrant than the father of a future Duchess when pictures first started appearing of him when the engagement was announced. I read that he set up the papped pictures to show a more polished side of himself and the money probably came in handy what with him being due to mix with high society. I don’t think that reflected badly on MM at all but it was obviously a trap he walked into not knowing how things worked.

I think he has been treated despicably by his DD. By all accounts she didn’t even bother to introduce him to Harry before they were engaged which is usual is it not? That was long before the staged picture debacle. They were in a better position than him to fly around the world. They didn’t even bother to visit after the wedding to see him after his heart op, which he was even accused of faking!

I think she was embarrassed by him and her siblings and didn’t want them on a public stage to reflect on her so took the opportunity to cut him off. She was obviously treated as a spoilt little princess as a child which has given her narcissistic tendencies and her poor Dad is paying for that now.

I think he knew he had lost her long before he released the letter she wrote him and I don’t blame him being angry and bitter that the child he did so much for showed that she didn’t give a fuck about him.

Flogging his dds info to the highest bidder does not a good father make

@wowfudge you picked out the shorthand (brother instead of writing out “brother and brother in law”) in my post and didn’t respond to the rest.

You didn’t for one minute believe that I think Harry and Kate are actual siblings.

Your defensive posturing about these complete strangers is exactly what you accuse me of; made up of your own internal feelings, not what’s actually going on.

I gave my opinion and did not write one unkind or untrue word. If you don’t like to read other’s opinions this is a strange place to hang out.

You didn’t for one minute believe that I think Harry and Kate are actual siblings.

Correct, but I did think you may consider a BIL a brother given the rest of your post about family relationships, etc.

You have said Meghan is selfish, that her marriage has brought only her happiness and none of her family members. Not unkind or untrue? Debatable. You can think these things, but you don't know them to be true
Everyone's entitled to an opinion. No one has to agree with that opinion. I'm not defensive - I'm just pissed off with the codswallop being posted as fact, the truth, etc, etc.

I felt so sorry for Meghan watching his interview. She wrote to him begging him to stop talking to the press and using her marriage to make money as it was causing her pain. His response, sell the letter to the press. Utterly despicable man.

He’s a slime ball.

All the pro Meghan posters who criticise the 'bashers' for not sticking to facts. How do you overlook the fact that Meghan's friends leaked inaccurate contents of the letter to People magazine before TM gave it to the press to clear his name? How do you think her friends knew about the letter? When he gave the letter to the press he was very clear that it was to clear up the lies said about him by Meghan her friends

How do you know what the woman's friends did or didn't do, it's all conjecture and just because something is in the media doesn't make it true

Not conjecture! People magazine attributed the quotes to 'friends of Meghan'

Unless you think People magazine lied about the source?

But how would they know what was in the letter?

How do you overlook the fact that Meghan's friends leaked inaccurate contents of the letter to People magazine

Proof? And what exactly are they purported to have leaked and when?

Go and look at their website, that and Google is your friend ☺️

Unless you think People magazine lied about the source?

You should read this

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/19/there-is-a-reason-why-royals-demonised-but-wont-read-all-about-it-prince-harry-meghan-markle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The press love to quote ‘friends’

How would People know what was in a private letter?

Spouting bollocks about one woman is pretty awful without any ACTUAL facts to back anything up, you'd think people had actually met the woman the way they're carrying on with their demeaning dialogue and text

I don’t know what these ‘friends’ are supposed to have leaked because you haven’t clarified.

And no, I’m not doing the proving for you. If you want to make the point, you do the work.

He has that awful attitude of ‘ I raised you now you owe me’. Parents who see their relationships as transactional are generally pretty toxic

Thanks for the information regarding libel Laurie

I am fed up of the way Meghan is treated.

I also think no father should do what he's doing. He's fuelling a fire. He's enjoying it and cashing in well.

Even if my ds made a decision I didn't agree with I'd respect it.

I started to look at MM a little differently when she published photos of Archie’s heel and I thought, you know I’m really not that interested in what he’s like. So patronising we’re not quite good enough for the rest.

I hope they all have long, happy and private lives in Canada.

@wowfudge

I’ll just leave you with the last words. Nothing you are writing makes any sense to me.