Thomas Markle is back - right after the Invictus Games

[beatan]

What surreptitious timing, Thomas Markle has been wheeled out again, let's hear what he has to say.

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1703638539450089909

I think I’m the wrong poster? I said I thought it was emotional blackmail, where you threaten to publicly humiliate someone over and over again until they cave in and give you what you want.

Wasn’t that after the photos appeared, though? I would have thought going to see him well before the wedding would have been a better idea. That’s what I would have done. Don’t you think that if you expected someone to take part in this big occasion, you would have wanted a bit of personal contact well beforehand? Maybe explain a bit about the Royal Family? Like I said, what would have happened if he had turned up as he was expected to do? Awks…

I wonder when next they'll wheel him out to 'perform', i'm guessing just after Meghan reveals her next project 😂

Probably, he should be ashamed of himself

It was clear before they even had the big rift, that her relationship with her father was complicated and that he was potentially troublesome. I remember him saying something like, "When I spoke to Harry on the phone to give him my blessing I told him that as long as he doesn't raise a hand to her, I have no problems". That was a pretty low bar.

And in retrospect, a lot of people have pointed to a few gushing posts on her TIG website about her dad but those just scream, "desperate daughter trying to pretend things with her dad are better than they are."

Similarly, he claims he paid for everything and she lived with him etc, but I'm pretty sure that's been shown to be completely untrue - not least because she went to school in LA and he wasn't even living there at the time!

I suspect that the fall out with the wedding and the knock on effect was the final impetus she needed to properly cut him out of her life after years of being messed up. There are 1000s of women just on MN alone who can testify to the negative impact of a shitty father like this on their DC and how long it can take the DC to properly move on.

Absolutely. He is unforgivable, as as her sister and brother.

They had to remind the Brits to hate her.

Yep, now that the IG is over, it's back to business with the hate train.

I did find it awful that first working day after the closing ceremony there he is spouting off for $$$$ again

I don't watch GMB, I now know why

Who will be around forever? Harry's family?
Why can't the RF put it behind them for the sake of the children too?

When is it ever a good idea to air your dirty linen in public. No going back from that.

Pathetic! Harry and Meghan have been living in California for almost 4 years now. If he's so desperate to reach out to her ,why not go on Good Morning America or their other breakfast shows? Why always British or Australian television? I don't even get why her family gets any air time in Australia. She never lived there, so why would Australians care about their family squabbles. I could at least get if they were on Canadian television, since she lived there for a couple of years.

Very true, we don't know the actual truth, we have 2 versions and the truth will be a mix of both.

I did find it strange Harry didn't meet Thomas Markle at all during the 2years before they got married, and do feel TM was slightly abandoned in the run up to the wedding.

But family relationships are difficult and emotional - both Meghan and Harry have had issues.

It's difficult for me just now - Meghan is totally within her rights to cut off all contact with family members she doesn't want to see.

But as a daughter whose own father has had 2 strokes and is facing a likely serious cancer diagnosis and is becoming frailer in front of my eyes - I can't imagine not wanting to at least see him and try to make some form of peace. Death is final and regrets are life long.

I can’t imagine having any contact with a man who has done and said the things TM has done.

But as a daughter whose own father has had 2 strokes and is facing a likely serious cancer diagnosis and is becoming frailer in front of my eyes - I can't imagine not wanting to at least see him and try to make some form of peace. Death is final and regrets are life long I agree. My DF and I had some right ding dongs throughout his life but I didn't hesitate to drop everything when he was dying of cancer. Meghan can do as she likes. It's her father and she has to live with the consequences of her actions. TM is clearly recovering from quite a serious stroke and has heart problems. The best thing he can do is let all of this go. Harry and Meghan have form for making the last years of elderly people's lives a misery. Maybe they cannot face up to the ugliness of disease and death. It's all about glamour and good looks.

I can't imagine not wanting to at least see him and try to make some form of peace. Death is final and regrets are life long.

What we have seen of how he treats her is completely unacceptable and abusive. It's completely ok for children of abusive or toxic and narcissistic parents to go no contact, its the advice given here all the time. If you can;t imagine it consider yourself lucky, lots of people have really awful parents that would be bad for them to be around.

I don't speak to my father and won't regret that when he goes. There will be sadness for not having a father that was a decent man, but sometimes thete is just too much damage to repair. I really don't blame her for removing herself from this situation, in fact it is the healthy thing to do

its the advice given here all the time This is MN where people don't attend funerals and go no contact at the drop of a hat. I would no more take advice on serious family matters than listen to mewlings of our cat. Half of the OPs are likely made up rubbish and advice given is usually trouble making nonsense.

That is your choice.Up to the point that Meghan met Harry TM was good father as attested to by her Tig postings. He said in today's interview that Meghan was a sweet and loving daughter. It seems as if his descent into chronic illness triggered her rejection of him. Diana's father was hardly father of the year but she didn't reject him. He had a stroke before Diana's wedding but she walked down the aisle with him. He was very doddery.

TM only has himself to blame. Meghan is right to keep away. The man is toxic and abusive. He might once have been a good dad, but that’s not the case now

Yes I bet William can't imagine having any contact with a man who has done and said the things Harry has done either.

What a bunch. Maybe they could have a group hug and TM and Harry both admit that confiding in the media was a mistake to put it mildly.

Sorry what has William got to do with TM?

Upto the point that Meghan met Harry TM was good father as attested to by her Tig postings. He said in today's interview that Meghan was a sweet and loving daughter. It seems as if his descent into chronic illness triggered her rejection of him.

You don't know any of that to be true at all. How ridiculous to think you know this much about a relationship you're not in. She rejected him because he betrayed her and has threatened and tried to blackmail her. How can you make any excuses for him or lay blame or negativity at her door over this? Its like you're ignoring the facts. His behaviour that we have actually seen is deplorable and very toxic. It is the sane, rational and totally valid thing to do to go no contact with him- even though he was the one to do that first.

Diana’s father didn’t sell her to the tabloids or collaborate with her biggest onscreen abuser. Neither did he contribute to her suicidal ideation when he went on TV whilst she was pregnant to humiliate her nationally/globally with the man who was using his platform on GMB to degrade, mock and dehumanise her on an almost daily basis.

I sincerely hope that every single person who contributed to dehumanising, vilifying and bullying this young lady as a national pastime, for years on end, have taken into consideration that one day their own child or grandchild may receive similar treatment. And they will only have themselves to blame.

He's old, ill, and no longer useful.

Harry only has himself to blame. The rf are right to keep away. The Markles are toxic.

Can you really not see the similarities?!

It's crazy that they dish it out in bucketfuls complete with sad face reality shows including piss taking curtsies yet some of you on here clutch your pearls when TM dares talk to GMB.