Thomas Markle coming to UK for jubilee

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So Thomas has announcement on GB news just now, they are going to pay to help bring him to the UK for the queen's jubilee and would love to meet Charles and Harry / Megan if they turn up, should be intesting. He would dearly love to meet anyone from the royal family as he feels they have much to discuss. I hope it goes well for him.

Actually, I think many of their problems stem from the fact that most of Meghan's family were ignored from day 1, and not invited to the wedding. Thomas Markle was invited, but apparently never received one of the official decorated invitations that everyone else received.
P Harry has never met him.
So, I think a lot of this could have been avoided in PH had met his future father in law, and invited some of their family members (I think there are some uncles who are totally OK). Instead we know that Meghan had not even met some of the hollywood actors that were invited.
If TM visits London during the Platinum Jubilee, then I am sure he will appear on several news shows if nothing else.

It was so disrespectful that Harry didn't even the decency to meet his FIL before he proposed, and to get to know some of Meghan's family. Do we imagine he felt he was way too good and too mighty to meet the father of his soon to be bride?
I would see this as a huge mark of disrespect, given Thomas and Meghan were close at the time, and he was planning to give her away. What kind of man meets his FIL on the wedding day itself, especially one that was more than rich enough to jump into a private jet and meet for lunch or evening drinks!!

I think poor Thomas been treated abysmally by his child, Harry and to some extent the RF whom lets face it could have done much more to make him welcome into the family. So it is my guess that this will be corrected in June, and they will make up for it - hence the invitation is a dead cert and indeed potentially much more. Netflix might get more than they bargained if Harry also intends to come!

It was so disrespectful that Harry didn't even the decency to meet his FIL before he proposed, and to get to know some of Meghan's family

In fairness to Harry, we can't know if any barriers to him doing that were placed in his way
If I had a family like that, and was hoping to marry into one who consider themselves the very peak, I'd be nervous about him meeting them for fear he'd change his mind

At the time all was well in the family puzzled and Harry had no reason to be 'fearful' of a casual coffee with his future FIL, which Harry should be able to manage with absolutely anyone. It was not a counselling session or a deep dive into his family history - a simple and polite acknowledgement was all that was needed, and he didn't even manage that.

No moral compass, no principles and no decency is what it tells me.

Haha. It's pretty clear that Meghan has had a complicated relationship with her father (and based on his subsequent behaviour, I'm assuming he has been toxic for a while) and that prior to her and Harry getting together they had not been close albeit the engagement etc was the final nail in the coffin of their relationship. I am more than willing to believe that he has his own challenges, but mental or physical health problems are not an excuse for toxic behaviour.

Ditto with other family members.

Funny how all these so called family members etc can't produce a single photo of them with Meghan after the age of about 15. I have a slightly complicated relationship with members of my family too, but nonetheless, I see and speak to them all to a greater or lesser extent at various times and if, for example, a niece was to be engaged to a prince in due course, there would be plenty of evidence of an ongoing relationship.

At the time all was well in the family

Allegedly

Few of us know the real details of what goes on in families, and with this one I really wouldn't want to assume that what's been presented is based on any kind of facts

I'll be surprised if he comes tbh. I think he might do zoom type interviews.

Meghan had asked her father to give her away, I am assuming she was happy for him to be there at her wedding! So the very very least they could have done was met the poor guy, even briefly before he was paraded in front of the world's press for his daughter's wedding.

Most parents wouldn't expect to meet their new in laws on the day of the wedding, especially not one that was a global event involving the British Royal Family. I am aghast for this poor man, he after all lived a pretty insular life and was happy with that until this bomb went off. He has my sympathies.

Meghan seems to have 'complicated' relationships with absolutely everyone - bar no one - there is a common dominator there if you look carefully.

Are... are you Thomas Markle?

Er, nope!
But I am a fellow parent that would expect to be treated with a little more humility and respect than the sussexes have shown Thomas. He was not even worthy of a quick coffee. Very sad.

I think it would be a mark of respect to invite him, he is adored here in the UK as we all felt and still feel so sorry for him, he has been treated abysmally.

That you, Sam?

He really isn’t adored in the U.K. Most couldn’t pick him out in a line up of one.

If you treat your children like crap, you expect that back as a parent.

Why does he have to be there? He and Meghan are estranged. TM and Meghan's half brother and half-sister are just irksome, attention-seeking little creeps. All utterly vile. NOBODY wants them there.

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Funny how all these so called family members etc can't produce a single photo of them with Meghan after the age of about 15

Agree. That's coz they have not had a relationship for at least 20 years. He (her dad) is just a leech and a bloodsucker who puts on the 'boo hoos' when it suits. Ditto her hideous half sister and half brother.

She made it big as an actress and married into the Royal Family and it kills them, because THEY are not benefiting from it. If Meghan had got a job as a Barista in Starbucks, do you think they would be so desperate for contact/a relationship with her then? Would they fuck!!!

I have half a dozen extended family members who I ghosted some 2 decades ago because they were/are parasites, scroungers, users, and thieves. If I suddenly became famous, they would try and contact me and get money out of me, and when I ignored them (which I would) they would run to the press and try to sell stories on me. Thomas Markle and Meghan's half sister and half brother are cut from the same cloth as these scummy extended family members.

Meghan (and Harry) are absolutely 100% right to keep her father, and her half sister, and her half brother OUT of their lives. Awful, needy, publicity-hungry, money-hungry parasites. All three of them!

TM is adored in the UK? That is a pretty strong claim! Most people I know thought he behaved appallingly with the set up pap pictures and the relentless sniping he and his other daughter go on with. There was considerable sympathy for MM over his/their behaviour. His behaviour now is frankly stalkery and creepy.

Completely different topic but watched their wedding last night for the very first time that preacher bored the arse of me I kept fast forwarding it I felt sorry for those especially the queen listening to that for a good half an hour or more. The little bridesmaids (now knowing what she did especially to Charlotte) you hardly saw. Yes funny watching it knowing everything now what’s happened. I love her veil but that was it.

This! PMSL at anyone who thinks Thomas Markle is 'adored' in the UK!!!!!

Most people I know either...

a) don't know who the fuck he is.

or

b) know who he is, but are indifferent and don't give a shit about him either way.

or

c) find him nasty and loathsome, and wish he would fall off the planet.

For me, it's option c.

I reckon 99.9% of people fucking hate him

At least all the ones who know what a toxic family is like will

Yep. This! ^^

Close enough for her to share Thanksgiving with both parents when already dating Harry.

I think it's quite funny.
An estranged relative using the Queen's Jubilee as an excuse for publicity and interviews ... they all reap what they sow.

I honestly don’t understand how she went from that post to this mess in a few years. Both of them with severely damaged relationships with their fathers and most of Harrys family estranged.

Sometimes things are more finely balanced than they appear at first… and then when something changes they can end up crumbling surprisingly quickly. And in any case, an instagram post, especially on the feed of someone with a public profile who’s aiming for a bit of the whole ‘influencer’ thing, doesn’t necessarily show the whole truth.

As for Harry - the royal family is infamously dysfunctional and has been for a very long time indeed. Generations and generations! So I’m not particularly surprised to see yet another breakdown there either, tbh.

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It's the two kids I feel sorry for. No family support on either side when their own parents (H&M) grow older.
Unless they make their own decisions when they reach maturity they'll never know their cousins.

Who adores him?

I don't think I know anyone who adores him. I don't know anyone who would recognise him if he walked past them. Surely most people don't care at all about hi, even if they like or dislike Harry and Meghan.

There is not even the slightest chance he will get anywhere near the Royal Family. He is a fantasist if he even considers that a possibility.