Thomas Markle has been absolutely vile to his daughter since he pulled out of her wedding.
Not just the staging photos thing, although that was embarrassing enough, Meghan got over that, and told him as much. But he lied about it, and admitted that he lied. There are least six other things that he did that are much worse than that.
Firstly, he made common cause with Piers Morgan and Dan Wootton, two of the journalists who have been on a years long rampage against Meghan, basically, he ganged up with his daughter's worst critics against her.
Secondly, he blackmailed her openly, saying he would do public interviews until she caved in to his demands, famously saying "it's time to take care of Daddy".. In one of the interviews, on Australian TV, he admitted that the photos plan was meant to ruin the wedding.
Thirdly, he accepted an invitation by the right wing anti-Meghan channel GB News to attend the Jubilee to "confront" Harry and Meghan. He also accepted an invitation to stay with Lady Colin Campbell who is notorious for quasi-daily YouTube rants about Meghan in which she accuses Meghan of fraud over the birth of her children, feeling conspiracies that her children "do not exist". It did not happen only because he had a stroke.
Fourthly, he threatened legal action to see Archie and Lili, even though he is estranged from ALL his other grandchildren.
Fifthly, he publicly stated he would testify against her in her Daily Mail lawsuit.
Sixthly, he has stated he will testify against her in the Samantha lawsuit.
Finally, he has appeared on really unpleasant YouTube Meghan hate channels that spread conspiracy theories, answering questions about whether Meghan had abortions as a teenager, was a "yacht girl", used her frozen eggs or surrogates etc.
This is just the stuff I remember.
Through all this, Doria has been a supportive presence to her daughter.
And yet some have problems with the "sainted" Doria.
There have been nasty stories on this very forum about Doria being a convict, Doria disappearing from Meghan's life, all because at one point her main residence was with her father, and not with her mother. When her main residence was with Thomas, no one said it was because he was in prison.
Not even the unpleasant Samantha has gone as far as to say that the woman she called "the maid" was ever in prison, and yet it is stated as a fact by some.
I can only conclude that those who have a problem with her have it because she is black because the same people do not have a problem with the above by Thomas
There is no other explanation as to why the parent who has been completely unproblematic gets slammed with sneering nastiness and untrue rumours, while the behaviour of the parent who has been so horrible so publicly gets a pass.
If there really is another explanation, @Cokefans I would genuinely love to hear it. Why are you sneering at Doria? What has she ever done wrong?