Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
The royal family
Original poster

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

184 replies

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.

OP posts:
didofido · 20/03/2021 12:54

[quote Cokie3]**@didofido* My default is to not assume the worst of people. That's what you choose to do. And just what* is Meghan doing? Calling it out? Standing up for herself? Speaking her truth after being abused for so long? Is the fact she is not suffering in silence what upsets you?[/quote]
Sorry I'm not a little ray of sunshine, like you.
"Standing up for herself" = snivelling about hard done by she is.
"Her truth" = there is her opinion and THE truth

If we're talking about abusers, she should look in a mirror

didofido · 20/03/2021 13:04

Cokie3
Do you know that this is the second time you've told me how much nicer natured you are than I am?

As my granny would have said "Self-praise is no recommendation"

Lampzade · 31/03/2021 06:14

Thomas Markle is a terrible father . End of

trollopolis · 31/03/2021 07:15

She said he was a wonderful,father.

She is campaigning about the harm the press do, because they twist everything and are excessively intrusive.

Her husband has never met him, and no preparation or support was given.

Did anyone ask him if he was OK?

Mummy195 · 31/03/2021 09:04

@trollopolis

He was offered support, which he refused. He was supposed to be in the UK, everything was arranged for him, weeks before the wedding, before he went into hospital.

Apparently, her did not show up when the weekend Doria met Harry.

He did however, recently find strength to drive all the way to Oprah's home to request an interview.

So I think he is OK !

trollopolis · 31/03/2021 09:19

He hadn't even met Harry. They hadn't been to see him, and is the odd phone call what H&M count as support?

That puts quite a different slant on things

FelicityPike · 31/03/2021 09:23

He’s a dick! A greedy, ignorant, self-important piece of shit. So is his other daughter. Nasty.
Meghan is well shot and definitely should keep him away from her family.
(and I’m not a Meghan fan, but I feel so sorry for her having those people for her relatives)

OutwiththeOutCrowd · 31/03/2021 10:16

What particularly sticks out for me is just how difficult the Markle family find communicating and negotiating with other family members directly in private.

That goes for Meghan herself, her two half siblings and her father. It seems there is probably more sympathy for Meghan in this matter and I think this is because she looks and sounds as if she is well-integrated in society to a greater extent than the others, but the weakness is shared.

They all turn to look for support and validation from the 'audience' - or bystanders - rather than through debate and conciliation within the family. Meghan has taken this trait into her dealings with the Royals and it has had a similar unravelling effect.

RickiTarr · 08/04/2021 17:26

@SoupDragon

Perhaps if he shut up and stopped giving interviews, selling stories to the press and showing private correspondence things might be different.
Seems to me that MM gets her endless urge to communicate from her father, not her mother.
Ecruelworld · 04/05/2021 22:29

Im not sure if there will ever be a reconciliation but I’ve just read that Meghan has written a book about the special bond between father and son. It was based on a poem she had written after Archie was born. It seems a bit weird what with her going NC with her father (don’t blame her though for that ) and the fact that Harry‘s part of the interview with OW was largely devoted to slagging his father off . Maybe she’s saying she never had a bond with her father (or that she did but bonds can have their Limits and be broken) or Harry with his and that the bond Harry and Archie is how father and son should be so the book celebrates the ideal bond. I’m not sure but she is opening herself up to criticism with the choice of subject bearing in mind her and Harry’s bonds with their fathers imo.

Marmaladeagain · 04/05/2021 22:35

@RickiTarr - Grin that made me laugh, it is true - the endless irony both H&M deliver every step of the way.

Eaumyword · 05/05/2021 07:56

@OutwiththeOutCrowd

What particularly sticks out for me is just how difficult the Markle family find communicating and negotiating with other family members directly in private.

That goes for Meghan herself, her two half siblings and her father. It seems there is probably more sympathy for Meghan in this matter and I think this is because she looks and sounds as if she is well-integrated in society to a greater extent than the others, but the weakness is shared.

They all turn to look for support and validation from the 'audience' - or bystanders - rather than through debate and conciliation within the family. Meghan has taken this trait into her dealings with the Royals and it has had a similar unravelling effect.

Excellent observations.
derxa · 05/05/2021 09:15

[quote Mummy195]@trollopolis

He was offered support, which he refused. He was supposed to be in the UK, everything was arranged for him, weeks before the wedding, before he went into hospital.

Apparently, her did not show up when the weekend Doria met Harry.

He did however, recently find strength to drive all the way to Oprah's home to request an interview.

So I think he is OK ![/quote]
Thomas Markle was treated appallingly by Harry and Meghan no matter how you spin it. Utterly scandalous.

LaBellina · 05/05/2021 09:22

If my father had threatened to do a new interview every 30 days if I hadn’t contacted him, I would cut him off forever.

This kind of behavior reminds me very much of my own father who is an abusive vile man no matter how charming he might seem to the outside world.
If I were Meghan I would never speak again to Thomas Markle.

derxa · 05/05/2021 09:27

@LaBellina

If my father had threatened to do a new interview every 30 days if I hadn’t contacted him, I would cut him off forever.

This kind of behavior reminds me very much of my own father who is an abusive vile man no matter how charming he might seem to the outside world.
If I were Meghan I would never speak again to Thomas Markle.

Why didn't he go to the wedding?
Sadsiblingatsea · 05/05/2021 09:34

He basically brought her up and paid for her to have the best education money could buy.
Then when she met Harry she pretty much ghosted him.
Not nice.

LaBellina · 05/05/2021 09:39

I have no idea @derxa.
I can’t judge what has been going on in private between them.

But he publicly threatened to keep doing interviews every 30 days if she wouldn’t reach out to him and that act in itself is so despicable that I completely understand it if she’d never speak to him again. There’s just no justification for a father to blackmail his daughter like this.

derxa · 05/05/2021 09:40

@Sadsiblingatsea

He basically brought her up and paid for her to have the best education money could buy. Then when she met Harry she pretty much ghosted him. Not nice.
No not nice at all
MrsMiddleMother · 05/05/2021 09:48

Noone has to have contact with any family member who is toxic or abusive just because they're 'family'. A decent father never would have sold her out the way he did. Awful man and her fucking horrible half sister too.

MrsMiddleMother · 05/05/2021 09:49

@Sadsiblingatsea

He basically brought her up and paid for her to have the best education money could buy. Then when she met Harry she pretty much ghosted him. Not nice.
Brought her up and paid for her education, you mean like a father is supposed to do?
derxa · 05/05/2021 09:54

Brought her up and paid for her education, you mean like a father is supposed to do? Did you send your children to private school?

derxa · 05/05/2021 09:56

@LaBellina

I have no idea *@derxa*. I can’t judge what has been going on in private between them.

But he publicly threatened to keep doing interviews every 30 days if she wouldn’t reach out to him and that act in itself is so despicable that I completely understand it if she’d never speak to him again. There’s just no justification for a father to blackmail his daughter like this.

Has he been doing interviews every 30 days?
Marmaladeagain · 05/05/2021 09:59

MrsMiddleMother - must apply both ways then I guess, so doesn't make sense that H&M surprised to get cold shoulder from the RF after public accusations and lies ie. when wedding took place etc that AoC had to get involved, titles being linked to security etc.

Until the day M's dad was in the hospital bed he was still expected to come to walk her down the aisle.

KaleSlayer · 05/05/2021 10:00

People can think what they like, imagine whatever they like, speculate and judge but when a woman cuts a man out of her life, there will be very good reasons for her doing it.

stairway · 05/05/2021 10:03

I feel a bit sorry for him, he never asked to be in the media spot light and his daughters marriage hasn’t worked out well for him. He hasn’t helped himself obviously and is clearly very dysfunctional. I think he couldn’t handle her rejection when she started her new life.