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Thomas Markle......Meghan's father.

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Tolkienista · 10/03/2021 15:48

Don't know if anyone saw the interview with Thomas Markle on GMTV Tues morning. It depicted a frail, emotional man who desperately wants to reconnect with his daughter and see his grandson too. Yes his life is complicated and he alluded to this time and time again .

He repeatedly acknowledged he's done wrong, in the many media interviews he's given and what struck me was a man who is living a lonely life and may not have many years to live and reconcile the differences he and Meghan have.

My cousin taught Meghan in her high school in L.A. and speaking to her last night she recalls Thomas Markle as "a funny, generous, witty man constantly helping out with school plays and musicals. He was generous with his time and the teachers and students loved him, especially Meghan"

I can't see any hope of a reconciliation the way things currently stand.

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Blueberries0112 · 10/03/2021 17:39

As a father, does he care she is feeling suicidal?

Mummy195 · 10/03/2021 17:47

@StormzyinaTCup

They were not paid for the interview.

Bigtroubleinlittletrousers · 10/03/2021 18:13

HmmmmmmInteresting
Maybe try reading the appropriate part of the thread again?
Oh please, no need for embarrassment that you can’t comprehend fairly straightforward concepts 😂😂😂

teaorwine · 10/03/2021 18:23

This is the dad who sold photos to the press before her wedding, didn't come to her wedding, wouldn't tell her he wasn't coming ...
which somehow has all become her fault along the way.... sharing her private letter to the media, and now she is wrong for not accepting his televised apology on a programme that has consistently enabled one of its presenters to berate her constantly and on the same programme her father threatens her that if she doesn't make contact that he will continue to do media interviews every day?
Yep she is soo unreasonable.

StormzyinaTCup · 10/03/2021 18:26

[quote Mummy195]@StormzyinaTCup

They were not paid for the interview.[/quote]
I know they weren’t paid for the interview but they need to be able maintain a certain lifestyle that will have to come from income sourced in US. This ‘chat’ was played out purely for a US audience. They could have spent two hours talking to Oprah about their work goals, projects and ambitions for the future but that’s not going to pull in the US viewing figures and increase their potential US earning power, however, dropping bombshells about their life in the RF more than likely will. I expect more titbits to drop if/when their profile slips down the celebrityometer.

For what it’s worth I think MM came across better in the interview than Harry who just came across as a petulant spoilt brat and I think he has let her down badly (he was a big disappointment for me) but that’s a derail and has been covered off in other threads .

Littlepaws18 · 10/03/2021 19:37

He sold his story to a man who makes it his career to spread vitriol against his daughter. He can't/ won't stop his other daughter from slagging her off left right and centre and has published a book! He plays victim but then drags up completely irrelevant past things in Harry's life- as Harry is the who clearly broke up his relationship with his daughter not innocent him!

He is a terrible father and I'm counting my lucky stars he was never mine!

WoohooBeautiful · 10/03/2021 19:47

@Blancah they have introduced a new feature on MN. It is now optional to click on thread titles! You can actually pick and choose any threads you want to read and ignore the ones that don’t interest you. You could have even done that with THIS EXACT THREAD!!!

Problem solved.

StormzyinaTCup · 10/03/2021 20:01

@teaorwine

This is the dad who sold photos to the press before her wedding, didn't come to her wedding, wouldn't tell her he wasn't coming ... which somehow has all become her fault along the way.... sharing her private letter to the media, and now she is wrong for not accepting his televised apology on a programme that has consistently enabled one of its presenters to berate her constantly and on the same programme her father threatens her that if she doesn't make contact that he will continue to do media interviews every day? Yep she is soo unreasonable.
Incidentally, whose remit is it to arrange/sign off on the guestlist on GMB, Piers Morgan or ITV?

If it's ITV arranging/signing off on the guests then why, having shown the Oprah interview just the night before, did they think it was a good idea/appropriate to have Thomas Markle on the next day? answer is, to poke the open wound and increase their viewing figures. Pretty shoddy behaviour on their part.

WoohooBeautiful · 10/03/2021 20:17

@Mookie81

He's a lot older than Doria and I dread to think what it was like for her married to him, with his crackpot racist family to boot. Her and Meghan are well off out of it.
Honest question: do you genuinely think you have the information and insight one would need to characterize the way a complete stranger to you felt about her relationship three decades ago ?? And if so would you mind me asking your age?

It astounds me how people just lap up the narratives presented by the media. They are admittedly compelling stories, complete with good guys, bad guys, and plenty of damsels in distress. But real adult private lives are complicated, unpredictable, and almost always impenetrable to outsiders. You probably don’t even have a full picture of what goes on in your best friend’s marriage behind closed doors, let alone Meghan’s parents. I asked your age bc this is something that I think many people learn through life experience.

DeepThinkingGirl · 10/03/2021 20:48

I can’t see how he was hoping to amend things with his daughter when he quite obviously was issuing threats to continue to do the same things that he has just appologised for..

Insincere appology ?? Hoovering ?! Sucking her back in so he can use her and betray her again ?

I hope she is smarter than that and puts up good boundaries

DeepThinkingGirl · 10/03/2021 20:49

And Ofcourse a teenage daughter is going to be completely proud of her daddy Infront of her friends.. she doesn’t know any better

Don’t be so simplistic

Mummy195 · 10/03/2021 21:47

So cruel of GMB to use him like this.

He looked like a foolish old man tbh. The threats and everything. Then they showed him sitting on the sofa with takeaway box of chips/burger/ whatever and a bottle of Fanta before he sadly lamented about his heart problems. When will he ever learn? Its not not like his 30 days threat works either because the media only calls him when they feel like it.

Mookie81 · 10/03/2021 23:49

@WoohooBeautiful I'm almost 40, is that old enough for an opinion? Hmm

Quaagars · 10/03/2021 23:57

Maybe he felt he needed an audience to speak his truth, and be his authentic self. It's very important, apparently

Love this. I’m on Thomas’s side. I haven’t heard anything about him which I find half as offensive as I find Megan. Yes, maybe he has lied and sought publicity, but .....

I'm embarrassed for you that you can't even recognise sarcasm

I read the original quote of this as just yet another taking the piss out of Meghan and "telling her truth" and mocking it.
Just another shitty post dismissing her.

TorringtonDean · 11/03/2021 00:13

Didn’t she live with him, not Doria, from age 11? He sent her to private school and appeared devoted. Didn’t he have heart trouble at the time of the wedding and have a procedure in hospital? She doesn’t have to speak to her father but there seems to be a pattern here of family being completely cut off.

Most of us stay in touch in the most dysfunctional families.

Quaagars · 11/03/2021 00:36

Didn’t she live with him, not Doria, from age 11? He sent her to private school and appeared devoted

Not sure what that has to do with anything?
You can still be sent to private school and appear devoted but be emotionally manipulative, whether you mean to be or not.

Blueberries0112 · 11/03/2021 00:37

A lot of kids live with a parent in hope for a healthy relationship and often found they aren’t as they seem. It doesn’t mean anything, Sometimes parents use best schools to their control their children and make them feel guilty.

teentipans · 11/03/2021 00:40

Most of us stay in touch in the most dysfunctional families.

Most don't splash their private letters & grievances all over the papers & appear on a programme with a presenter who regularly writes nasty things about your child.

teentipans · 11/03/2021 00:41

He sent her to private school and appeared devoted

Why does paying for private school mean he can't be a bad parent?

namechangefail2020 · 11/03/2021 00:56

I love and am also quite baffled by how much energy people are giving this shit. I keep clicking on the threads to see how many people are going mental about it. It's so weird and yet here I am also commenting, damn you all 😂

Quaagars · 11/03/2021 00:59

It's so weird and yet here I am also commenting, damn you all

Grin same lol
StormzyinaTCup · 11/03/2021 01:26

Anything that can knock coronavirus off the front pages is good enough reason for me to join in. It's a blessed relief after the last twelve months Grin

PuffItsGone · 11/03/2021 01:48

Feels like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree for me on this one

dripfeeder · 11/03/2021 02:32

I don't agree with some of the views here. No matter what, he is her father. I haven't heard from him in a long time btw until yesterday I guess he was trying to respect her wishes. He knows nothing about the media, he isn't experienced with it. We don't know what the media said/promised him when they first approached him. My dad wouldn't know how to deal with media if he was desperately trying to contact me. He wasn't protected. He still thinks this is the best way. I feel really sorry for him.

Every family deals with some sort of toxic or dysfunctional elements in their families. I can't ever imagine cutting my dad out unless he physically beats me up, abuses me, sells me to pimps, beats my mum and my siblings out, makes us beg on the streets, cuts my organs out to give it to the organ mafias or steals from us to feed his drug habits that gets us into the vicious cycle of beating us up again, abusing us etc etc etc.

Blueberries0112 · 11/03/2021 02:35

Just to let you know , Meghan’s father was in show business. He know a thing or two about public eyes

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