Thomas markle

[Thomasina79]

Meghans dad has had two strokes and a heart attack. He is 80 so probable does not have much time left. It shows Meghan in a very poor light (again) as she has not contacted him at all so the chances of a reconciliation are slim. He has never seen his grandchildren. Whatever you think of Meghan and I don t particularly like her, I think this very sad and she may regret it. How hard is it to make a phone call?

I suspect its something to do with her half siblings, who seem to be absolute poison. Thomas Markle seems to have them hanging around him. I thought he did those pap photos after the daughter told him to. She is obviously a nasty piece of work. I wouldn't have anything to do with any of them either. No wonder she is how she is if she had to deal with them all her life, and her father listening to them when its obvious they are doing things to harm his other daughter.

Mumsnet is generally supportive of people going no contact with their parents.

Not always. There was an interesting one recently where it was over a relatively minor issue, and the OP was urged to have a conversation and re-establish contact.
It's Meghan's choice, only she knows of course. It seems a shame after so many loving posts about him, but stuff happens.

How do we categorically know that she hasn't contacted her father? Are her phones bugged? We don't actually know and we only have Harry's word that he and KC haven't talked because as we know the RF never comment.

I think the thing that makes people suspicious is the huge change of tune she had when she met Harry. If your relationship with a parent is difficult then it has always been that way. All the evidence, including MM’s own words, depict her as a Daddy’s girl who spent very little time with her Mother’s family. Her father apparently could not do enough for her in her childhood and adolescence, making financial sacrifices to make sure she had a private education, went to a good college and had accesses to intern programs and other experiences.

She has said a lot of this herself and lots of it very close to the whole ‘photographer incident’. To cut off a doting parent who has given you everything because of one incident comes off as cold. To do it because they are guilty of something you yourself do regularly is hypocritical.

Then to leak a personal letter to the press to make yourself look good is extremely low.

Meghan is all about her own image. She cuts loose anyone who doesn’t fit her current narrative (look at all the friends she’s lost). To lose one relationship seems careless, to loose most of your family, many friends and all your husband’s family seems like a deliberate tactic from someone who values image over emotional support.

Yabu. He sells stories about her, his own daughter. Unforgivable.

I agree. How dreadful to sell stories about your loved ones. For money.
Just like Harry and Meghan.

Like father, Like daughter. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

If you have fallen out with both sides of the family then perhaps the problem is you. But then her sister is particularly vile so I don’t blame in that respect.

Wow. You woke up early this morning and immediately thought to post this. Get a fucking life.

Have they contacted the cancer stricken father in law and sister in law?

Quite. I was wondering if they'd gone over to somewhere private and secure, like Sandringham, and taken the grandchildren to cheer up Pa.

I think it's extremely sad, personally.

Of course I don't know the details. But I couldn't do what Meghan and Harry have done to TM unless the man had sexually or physically abused me (or Doria). There is a spectrum between ' My Darling Daddy!' (which was the way M always wrote about her dad before Harry) and absolutely cutting him off, especially since his health has failed.

Now, if there were such serious issues with TM, I'm sure we'd have heard about it and I'm sure M wouldn't have gushed about him on her social media etc. The other things might lead her to rebuke him and keep contact limited, but to completely cut off the man who took so much care with her upbringing (sending her to good schools and a university, and more) I think is awful.

But Meghan's life is littered with the corpses of friends and relations she no longer has a use for!

I hope you’re okay after that horrible comment OP. There are some very unpleasant people on this board at times.

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Meghan told the royal family and Harry and his friends she got scholarships, had work from a tender age, was a latch key child, was a diplomat at the Argentinian embassy and so on. Her Father was an award winning lighting director in Hollywood, he paid for her private education and is still paying towards her stint doing international Relations and Theatre at Northwest University. Her Father got her the work experience in Argentina through her Uncle who worked in the Embassy she also didn’t invite to the wedding. The reason she HAD to get them out of her life is all the porky pies would be exposed.

I think a lot were slow to catch on with Meghan most had her sussed out from the engagement interview some took a very long time.

She’s actually great entertainment. My only concern is if Meghan was a man would we find it easier to say Harry is in a coercive relationship?

He put her through school and university when they didn't have much money. Her mother didn't raise her, her dad did. She was embarrassed by him, didn't even get harry to meet him before marriage? They have all the money and time in the world to have met. They left him to fend for himself. She's estranged from all of her family!

They did the Oprah interview and H wrote his books. These public statements get discussion.

A y parent puts their child throigh school and uni, quite normal, basic parenting.

Why is no one bashing Doria?

I didn't know that. It makes it hard to understand.

oh yes the wonderful dad who tried to black mail her.
who knows what else he has done.

Why would anyone? What has Doria done? Meghan hasn't bad-mouthed or cut contact with her, so we assume all is well in that relationship.

One thing which comes over very clearly is that, whatever the details, Meghan must have had a very dysfunctional upbringing. Doria was absent during most of her childhood. We don't know why, and there's no reason we should. It's one are where Meghan has actually kept uncharacteristically schtumm. But it is unusual, isn't it, for a mother to leave and a father to do the bringing up?

I suspect that this will all be shared in the fullness of time.

Tom Bower implied she’s was serving time.

I don’t think this shows her in a poor light. Family dynamics are often difficult and we don’t know all the details. I don’t have any contact with my parents and now they’re older and are apparently in ill health, some people seem to think I should contact them. It makes no sense to me, they are still the same people who have treated me badly. Being older and ill doesn’t change that and doesn’t make me want to see them.

You have no idea what’s gone on or been said in that family over the years. If you said that about my relationship with my dad I’d be livid. He’s never wanted to know me but tells all and sundry a bizarre version of his fantastical tale to justify his actions. He can stick it despite being ill too. It’s totally out of order for you to judge and I’m in no way a fan of MM