Meghan Markle meets with royal staff after father begs Queen for help

The Duchess of Sussex is reportedly in talks with palace officials in the wake of her father publicly calling upon the Queen to step in and help mend their rift.    

Thomas Markle made a direct appeal to the Queen to intervene and rebuild the relationship with his daughter during an interview with Good Morning Britain on Monday.

He said: ‘I love my daughter very much and she has to know that.

‘I would really appreciate if she would just call me, reach out to me somehow, send me a text, just say you’re there and you’re hearing me.’

The Royal household is allegedly ‘enraged and exhausted’ with Mr Markle, who claims he sends Meghan text messages ‘every day’ and has also sent letters to Kensington Palace.

Thomas Markle has again spoken publicly about his relationship with his daughter

The Duchess of Sussex (pictured on stage at The British Fashion Awards on December 10), has not spoken out about her father 

The Duchess of Sussex (pictured on stage at The British Fashion Awards on December 10), has not spoken out about her father 

Thomas Markle made a direct appeal to the Queen (pictured on December 13), to intervene and rebuild the relationship with his daughter

Thomas Markle made a direct appeal to the Queen (pictured on December 13), to intervene and rebuild the relationship with his daughter

According to The Mirror, palace sources said the royal household had become ‘enraged and yet exhausted’ with Thomas and believe he has ‘gone a step too far’ by trying to draw the Queen into the row.  

Kensington Palace declined to comment today. 

A spokesman told MailOnline the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be spending Christmas in Norfolk with the rest of the Royal family.  

Explaining why he believes Meghan has shut him out, Mr Markle told Good Morning Britain yesterday: ‘She has always been a very controlling person and that is part of her nature – but she has never been rude. She has always been in charge’.

The 74-year-old added: ‘I’ve been ghosted. I’m not sure why it’s happening. I love my daughter very much. I wish she would reach out, send me a text, anything. There has to be a place for me. I’m her father’.

And in a message of reconciliation for his estranged daughter, who is believed to be around five months pregnant, Mr Markle stared down the camera and said: ‘I love you very much. I would like to hear from you. Whatever difficulties we’ve had I hope we can work through them. We’re family’.

Thomas Markle (pictured yesterday) used an unpaid interview with GMB to again beg his daughter Meghan to stop ignoring his texts and letters and 'reach out'

Thomas Markle (pictured yesterday) used an unpaid interview with GMB to again beg his daughter Meghan to stop ignoring his texts and letters and ‘reach out’

Meghan's father hopes that the Queen might intervene to heal his fractured relationship with his daughter and son in law (pictured at the The Royal Variety Performance in November)

Meghan’s father hopes that the Queen might intervene to heal his fractured relationship with his daughter and son in law (pictured at the The Royal Variety Performance in November)

In an extraordinary and wide-ranging interview, the retired Hollywood lighting engineer told GMB:

Meghan, pictured a week ago at The Fashion Awards 2018, is pregnant with her first child but has cut off contact with her father

Meghan, pictured a week ago at The Fashion Awards 2018, is pregnant with her first child but has cut off contact with her father

  • Thomas Markle describes his youngest child as ‘very controlling’ and ‘always in charge’
  • Meghan has ‘ghosted’ her own father since she married Prince Harry in May
  • Mr Markle texts every day and has sent letters to Kensington Palace but has heard ‘nothing’
  • Reclusive 74-year-old hopes that the Queen will now intervene at Sandringham over Christmas to repair the fissure in the Markle family
  • Mr Markle believes his daughter’s first child – due next April – could ‘soften’ rift and still hopes to meet his grandchild

Meghan cut off contact with her father after he failed to walk her down the aisle and has rebuffed all his attempts to make contact with her since then.  

But Mr Markle hopes the birth of her child will break down that ‘barrier’, adding: ‘I think she will make a great mum and maybe things will soften a bit and we will get back in contact’.

He added: ‘I’m certainly hoping that everything goes well that they produce a beautiful baby. I hope I’ll get to see a little Meghan or a little Harry’. 

Mr Markle has said that this will be his first Christmas without a card, call or visit from his beloved youngest child, who will spend it with the Queen at Sandringham.

Thomas Markle said he hopes Her Majesty will help him and said: ‘I would be grateful for anything she can do.

‘I would think she would want to resolve any family problems. All families, royal or not, need to be together, especially in the holidays’. 

Speaking from San Diego, Mr Markle said the rift ‘can’t continue forever’ and he would keep trying to connect with his daughter.

He went on: ‘I don’t plan to be silent for the rest of my life. I love my daughter very much and she has to know that, and I would really appreciate if she would call me, just reach out to me.

‘There has to be a place for me. I’m here, she knows it … I need her to reach back to me.’

Thomas Markle said he was not paid to appear on breakfast TV in the UK because he just wants Meghan to hear his message of reconciliation

Thomas Markle said he was not paid to appear on breakfast TV in the UK because he just wants Meghan to hear his message of reconciliation

Mr Markle told Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid that his daughter is 'controlling' - Piers Morgan says he believes Princess Diana would not have let the row get this far

Mr Markle told Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid that his daughter is ‘controlling’ – Piers Morgan says he believes Princess Diana would not have let the row get this far

Questioned by Piers Morgan, Mr Markle denied Meghan had a tendency to dump people if she had no use for them, saying: ‘That’s really not a character trait. She’s always been very polite to everyone, never been rude to anyone. I don’t know what’s really happening right now.’

Piers Morgan calls out ‘ghosting’ Meghan and urges her to reach out to her father

Piers Morgan also made a plea for his former friend Meghan Markle to heal the rift with her father Thomas.

The GMB host has repeatedly lashed out at the former Suits star and accused her of ‘acting her way to the top’ and ‘ghosting’ him after she met Prince Harry. 

As he interviewed her father Mr Morgan said: ‘If Meghan is watching this and I feel she will because she will be intrigued.

‘Come on Meghan. This is your dad and it’s Christmas.

‘I feel really sad about this and I hope it can be resolved because the longer it goes on the worse it can get.’

He also said he did not believe this row would be allowed to continue if Princess Diana was still alive. 

Mr Markle said: ‘My daughter lived with me from the age of 11 all through middle school and high school until she went off to college. We’re very close.

‘What’s happened, I’m not sure. I’d love to talk about it. I think it comes back to the fact that reporters pick up on interviews I’ve done and write their own stories and tell lies.’ 

He added: ‘If they are believing that, that’s unfortunate. They’ve always told me not to believe anything.’

Mr Markle concluded his interview by wishing Harry and Meghan a ‘merry Christmas’ and saying he would spend the festive period with friends, giving out presents to unfortunate children. 

The pensioner has been cut off by his daughter and new son in law and said recently: ‘Murderers are not punished like I’ve been’.  

Mr Markle appeared on GMB over the summer where the recluse claimed that Harry had said he was ‘open’ to Brexit and that people needed to ‘give Trump a chance’. 

He also said that Meghan kept the fact that she was dating Harry secret at first, asking her father to refer to him by the codename ‘H’, and that Harry had already popped the question to his daughter by the time he asked for her hand in marriage by phone and when he did, Meghan was also on the line. 

He said he gave his permission for the couple to wed as long as Harry promised never to ‘raise his hand’ against his daughter and was ‘grateful’ to Charles for stepping in when he was forced to pull out of giving his daughter away due to heart surgery, but admitted he felt jealous. 

Kensington Palace declined to comment on the interview or the astonishing claims, but there is little doubt that the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex have again been left humiliated by the continuing Markle family soap opera.

Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan confirmed that Meghan’s father had pocketed ‘a few thousand pounds’ but insisted his ‘ultimate motive was not money’.

He claimed Mr Markle had turned down significantly higher offers from the US media but chose the British programme as he wanted the ‘proper chance’ to put across his ‘side of the story’. 

Mr Markle’s decision to ‘sell out’ will be frustrating for palace officials who, after a dramatic run-up to the royal wedding, managed to pull off an extremely successful global event and had no doubt hoped to see the back of any further Markle family revelations.

The fact that Mr Markle chose not to discuss the interview beforehand with his daughter is likely to be seen by many as suggesting their relationship is fractured in the extreme.

Royal sources have maintained, however, they have done everything they can to help and guide Mr Markle, and say he is a proud man who finds it difficult to accept assistance from his daughter.

 

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