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Thomas Markle very ill

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Viviennemary · 03/12/2025 20:14

I've just read Thomas Markle is in hospital intensive care. He has been treated poorly by Meghan. I doubt if the pair will have anything to say about this. Though they've always plenty to say about a lot of things. Doubt they'll be rushing to his bedside.

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Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 13:59

Sleetandice533 · 04/12/2025 12:41

Yes! Thank you. That was the
phrase. “It’s time to look after Daddy”. Said in the context of finances. I remember being really shocked by that. What loving father says that about his daughter? Hideous!

And I don’t understand how people can believe that he was deceived in to making those fake photos! He was a lighting directing in LA for years fhs! It’s more likely he set it all up imho.

Obviously it is a very sad situation that he is seriously ill now, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, but let’s not underplay his role in the breakdown of the relationship. The parent should always take the lead in trying to make reparations.

I take everyone’s points about H&M selling stories on the RF family but Meghan’s relationship with her father is totally separate to that.

Also, I think Harry could have said a lot worse things in Spare. In comparison with what we now know thanks to Lownie, there were far worse things going on that should have been exposed!

As for the racism allegations from Meghan, I think it’s totally plausible she could have received a few comments from within the RF that were less than pleasant to hear. They may state that they are not a racist family now, but some older members of the family and household have been heard on camera making racist comments. And that world, until very recently, was very white and insular, In other words, I don’t know how people can be so adamant that nothing happened.

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Harry later admitted that the RF weren’t racist. Do keep up . Though saying that Harry and Megan can’t keep up with their own lies either

Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 14:03

Sleetandice533 · 04/12/2025 13:52

And yet he used those skills to participate in the staging of fake photos to profit from his daughter’s wedding knowing that she was already the subject of a media storm?

Nice father? I think not.

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You’re acting like he killed someone. He was trying in a suit

Janiie · 04/12/2025 14:07

Sleetandice533 · 04/12/2025 13:52

And yet he used those skills to participate in the staging of fake photos to profit from his daughter’s wedding knowing that she was already the subject of a media storm?

Nice father? I think not.

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Nice father/nice daughter/nice son in law whatever, we can all 'think not'. However you'd think their habit for blabbing would allow them to forgive Markle senior's habit for blabbing, no?

Imagine if Thomas M was quids in making pies on Netfkix Harry would be tutting and huffing that he was making money from their fame. Well ditto for them too.

Sequinsoneverythingplease · 04/12/2025 14:08

Sleetandice533 · 04/12/2025 13:52

And yet he used those skills to participate in the staging of fake photos to profit from his daughter’s wedding knowing that she was already the subject of a media storm?

Nice father? I think not.

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Is it bad enough for a loving daughter with a previously loving, supportive relationship to cut him off forever, never speak again, even when he’s potentially dying?

I read that he thought it was an interview and he wasn’t used to dealing with the manipulative British tabloid press. I think there’s probably some truth in that.

I think he’s probably quite a bumptious, “colourful”character and Meghan was terrified he’d show her up and Harry would change his mind, hence them never even meeting one time.

alwayseatingnevermoving · 04/12/2025 14:17

Sequinsoneverythingplease · 04/12/2025 14:08

Is it bad enough for a loving daughter with a previously loving, supportive relationship to cut him off forever, never speak again, even when he’s potentially dying?

I read that he thought it was an interview and he wasn’t used to dealing with the manipulative British tabloid press. I think there’s probably some truth in that.

I think he’s probably quite a bumptious, “colourful”character and Meghan was terrified he’d show her up and Harry would change his mind, hence them never even meeting one time.

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Him being poorly doesn’t change that he abused her.

Janiie · 04/12/2025 14:19

alwayseatingnevermoving · 04/12/2025 14:17

Him being poorly doesn’t change that he abused her.

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Abused who?

RisingSunn · 04/12/2025 14:29

fucit · 04/12/2025 10:45

It doesn’t seem like he was abusive though. It seems as though he was an involved father and gave her a good childhood. It all blew up around the wedding - the heart attack, the tabloid stuff he did with the suit measuring etc. But that isn’t long term abuse.

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Yes - not long term abuse - but I've read many posters on MN about posters going NC because their parents or in-laws don't respect boundaries..

Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 14:47

Sequinsoneverythingplease · 04/12/2025 14:08

Is it bad enough for a loving daughter with a previously loving, supportive relationship to cut him off forever, never speak again, even when he’s potentially dying?

I read that he thought it was an interview and he wasn’t used to dealing with the manipulative British tabloid press. I think there’s probably some truth in that.

I think he’s probably quite a bumptious, “colourful”character and Meghan was terrified he’d show her up and Harry would change his mind, hence them never even meeting one time.

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I think she was ashamed of him

Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 14:47

alwayseatingnevermoving · 04/12/2025 14:17

Him being poorly doesn’t change that he abused her.

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What rubbish

NaturalW · 04/12/2025 15:33

Sequinsoneverythingplease · 04/12/2025 13:43

Hmm, terribly unlucky for one couple to have so much trouble with almost all their families and close friends that nearly all of them need to be cut off and gone no contact with so publicly…

Agree. Where’s Doria? Not seen hide nor hair of her for almost 2 years. Not in any snaps of celebrations with her grandchildren……odd.

JSMill · 04/12/2025 18:43

I can’t believe when you live such a privileged life you can’t have any empathy for your father who has had to move to yet another country in order to afford to live and is experiencing some serious health problems. He’s had a heart attack, a stroke and now is very ill again. How can you not reach out and ask about him or offer to pay for the best medical care?
I don’t want to hear any crap about being an abusive parent. Even H and M haven’t accused him of that. She was embarrassed by him and conveniently found an excuse for not talking to him. His dcs from his first marriage appear very bitter and jealous of M and swooped in when he was estranged from M. They don’t seem like nice people but at least they are looking after their father.
I think the most fascinating thing about M is that she goes on about family and traditions and being connected etc etc yet she and her dh only speak to one person in their immediate family. M doesn’t have any relationship with her extended family, except for a dubious relationship with her niece. We don’t know about H’s relationship with his.

Sleetandice533 · 04/12/2025 19:02

NaturalW · 04/12/2025 15:33

Agree. Where’s Doria? Not seen hide nor hair of her for almost 2 years. Not in any snaps of celebrations with her grandchildren……odd.

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Really scraping the barrel with this comment. She has always kept a low profile.

None of us have any idea if Doria is around or not so you have no reason to assume the worst!

Just bc she doesn’t want to splash her face on SM; I’d say if anything that’s a very good sign.

tillythemoo · 04/12/2025 19:03

If she has any sense of decency she’ll reach out. It’s her dad, whom she was once very close to.

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BakedBeing · 04/12/2025 19:26

tillythemoo · 04/12/2025 19:03

If she has any sense of decency she’ll reach out. It’s her dad, whom she was once very close to.

I love the irony of moral judgements pronounced by randoms on the internet.

Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 20:05

BakedBeing · 04/12/2025 19:26

I love the irony of moral judgements pronounced by randoms on the internet.

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Its good the so called randoms do have morals because h and m clearly have none

Bobafett2020 · 04/12/2025 20:28

Slipperati · 03/12/2025 22:04

He was rushed to hospital on Tuesday.

And she releases her Christmas show on Wednesday, extolling the virtues of “family”.

I guess no publicity is bad publicity is it if you’re MM. The only reason she ditched him was because she was embarrassed by him, he doesn’t live up to her new found fame.

She’s been found a million times to be running to the press, briefing behind people’s backs and setting up pap shots. He did nothing that she hasn’t done in spades. She’s an utter hypocrite.

I feel sorry for all of them. Having lost parents myself I can’t imagine how much regret there is all around.

Don't be silly, the program will have been filmed ages ago and she will not be able to change the scheduling times which will also have been planned some time ago

BakedBeing · 04/12/2025 20:40

Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 20:05

Its good the so called randoms do have morals because h and m clearly have none

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Saving the world from their sofas and toilet seats, one comment at a time.

Supersimkin7 · 04/12/2025 20:42

Mm can’t maintain relationships. Her family are terrific feuders. So is she. 😬

The Middletons are all over their cringey relations. They get on even when they don’t.

That difference is what makes KM successful and MM on Netflix.

Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 21:00

BakedBeing · 04/12/2025 20:40

Saving the world from their sofas and toilet seats, one comment at a time.

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The “randoms” still have a stronger moral
compass though

TooBigForMyBoots · 04/12/2025 22:42

Benjithedog · 04/12/2025 21:00

The “randoms” still have a stronger moral
compass though

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If you choose to get all negative about a desperately ill stranger and his family at a very difficult point in their lives, your moral compass is way off.

Thedogscollar · 05/12/2025 00:21

Such a distasteful thread@Viviennemary.
The usual suspects frothing over H&M.
It's almost like they live with them and know they're every move.
It's pathetic.

elprup · 05/12/2025 00:39

It seems odd that she was apparently very close to him growing up and well into her 20s. And then to go NC. Normally a crap parent is a crap parent - and if they were, you wouldn’t continue being close to them through your 20s and write gushing blog posts about them online?

Sleetandice533 · 05/12/2025 01:01

elprup · 05/12/2025 00:39

It seems odd that she was apparently very close to him growing up and well into her 20s. And then to go NC. Normally a crap parent is a crap parent - and if they were, you wouldn’t continue being close to them through your 20s and write gushing blog posts about them online?

I don’t find this very unusual tbh.

When you grow up you tend to think that the type of parenting you have experienced is normal. As you get older and more independent and you experience more of life, you can be more objective, and your opinion about your parents can change.

CurlewKate · 05/12/2025 01:34

elprup · 05/12/2025 00:39

It seems odd that she was apparently very close to him growing up and well into her 20s. And then to go NC. Normally a crap parent is a crap parent - and if they were, you wouldn’t continue being close to them through your 20s and write gushing blog posts about them online?

You don’t spend much time on other bits of Mumsnet, do you?