As we discussed earlier this week, Thomas Markle is an idiot and, in his stupidity, he’s actually trying to hurt his daughter. I don’t have any mixed feelings or “on the other hand” theories about it. He knows he’s hurting Meghan and he’s doing it anyway. He knows he’s selling her out and causing a ton of problems for her and he’s doing it anyway. He’s tacky and thirsty and gross. Richard Kay at the Daily Mail basically spoke to Thomas Markle (although the quotes were not attributed to him) and there was a threat contained in that article: Thomas isn’t going away, and he’s going to keep talking. And he’s going to keep selling out his daughter. So Us Weekly now has a story about how Thomas thinks that everyone should be cool with him selling out Meghan and how she’s totally over it.
Following his latest debacle, sources reveal exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly that Thomas Markle Sr. is begging Meghan to forgive and forget. “Thomas adores his daughter and swears he never wanted attention from the interviews,” says a source close to the 73-year-old. “All he’s ever cared about is protecting Meghan.” Adds the insider, “He wants the royals to stand by his side, but of course so far they haven’t.”
But any apology may fall on deaf ears. “Meghan hasn’t spoken to Thomas since the day after her wedding,” says a palace insider, adding the entire royal family is “frustrated” that Markle Sr. continues to talk to the press. “Thomas is walking a fine line,” warns another source. “This blabbing needs to stop if he wants to maintain any relationship with Harry and Meghan.”
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were blindsided by the June 18 sit-down on the British morning show. “The proper thing to do would have been to let Meghan and Kensington Palace know he was giving an interview,” a palace source previously told Us. “He already did damage before the wedding.”
And it’s still uncertain if Markle will ever be granted access to his son-in-law, 33: “This will definitely have an effect on whether Harry meets Thomas or not now,” the second insider adds.
I mean, obviously – we knew from the Kay-DM piece that Meghan hasn’t spoken to him in weeks. He’s like a child throwing a tantrum to get attention from his daughter. He’s being a squeaky wheel, a loud nuisance in the hope that Meghan will pay attention to him… so he can sell her out even further. The second she calls him or acknowledges him, that proves that he still has “access” to her, and then his price goes up for all of the media outlets who are willing to pay him to sell out Meghan. I’ve been saying this since the lead-up to the wedding: just cut him out of your life, Meghan. I don’t even think she had much of a relationship with him in the first place, so it won’t be that hard.
Also: Thomas Markle is still setting up paparazzi photos. Let’s see if the British tabloids act super-shocked about it this time.
EXCLUSIVE: Meghan Markle's dad and estranged half-brother reunite near the Mexican border as they try to end seven-year feud https://t.co/6vMcZA1LVI
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) July 3, 2018
Photos courtesy of ITV, Pacific Coast News, Backgrid.
As long as he keeps doing these interviews, he’s never going to have any relationship with Meghan (or Harry). Maybe he knows that and doesn’t care – if he’s not going to have a relationship ANYWAY, why not just do the interviews and get money for it? He obviously doesn’t care about her.
Poor Meghan.
I agree Becks1, if he had shut up after the posed pap photos came out I think everything would have worked it’s self out but he didn’t so it wont. It’s really struck me that his only real “care” is meeting the royals, especially the Queen, not his daughter, new son-in-law or future grandchildren oh and of course “his image”.
Meghan now knows she cannot trust him at all – he wants the money and attention more than he wants a relationship with her. The Royals hate any kind of blabbermouth disloyalty – these tacky interviews will just keep him out in Siberia. I think you you can see her close relationship to the Queen also as a sign that the senior Royals are closing ranks protectively around her.
Tacky Thomas is never, ever going to be invited to meet the Queen – but dignified Doria probably will get future invitations.
I agree Lunde, Doria will be included as often as possible in royal family events. The only issue would be the physical distance between her and Meghan/Harry, but I think the Queen and especially Charles will make sure that she’s always invited, whether she can attend or not.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see her show up for Christmas at Sandringham. I also wouldn’t be surprised if she moves to England once the babies start to come.
Especially as the paps are stalking her moves here, the newest being following her to a local bakery, I would think H & M would be able to give her a bit more protection from paps if she lives there, no? As Doria had quit her job to start her own business with geriatric social work, now could be the perfect time to move to be closer to Meghan, and start her own business nearby.
I have sympathy for Doria. This has to be hard for her. 🙁
What is amazing to me is that ALL he had to do — just this one thing — was not sell interviews or photos to the press. Literally that was the *only* damn thing this man had to do and all of this could have been avoided.
And it’s not hard! It’s like, Thomas, my dude, billions of us go our entire lives without blabbing personal information to the public.
I also find it strange that he was radio silent for over a year and then all of a sudden, the week before the wedding, the floodgates opened and now he cannot STFU. What changed? I’m sure he was being offered $$ by tabloids as soon as the dating news broke, and Meghan wanted him to be there to walk her down the aisle, so it’s not like he was nursing some grudge against her — so how was he able to stay completely silent for so long and then all of a sudden this? Just…why?
I don’t understand the people who argue that Meghan should give him or any of her disgusting half-siblings money to try and shut them up. It is wrong on so many levels. Not to mention that it wouldn’t work, and they’d just keep coming back for more. And they are not owed one thin dime for Meghan’s work!
I guess I mostly just feel so sorry for her, not only because this must be terribly embarrassing but she must also be so hurt. We don’t know exactly how their relationship was, but it was strong enough that she wanted him with her on her wedding day.
She’s a strong lady and I really admire her. You’d never know that any of this was going on just from seeing the way she conducts herself on engagements and in public. I would be at home under the blankets popping Klonopin but she’s out there with a smile on her face. Good for her.
I hope he shuts up soon.
Excellent post, Lorelei. I agree with every word of it, and I feel terrible for Meghan.
Am curious as to why celebitchy keeps tweeting the same story over and over again? Is there any new info here? No
Am so over him and the media that keeps giving him airtime.
Im with Amy. I don’t see the point of continuing this self promotion. Not buying whatever he’s selling.
Btw Meghan looks amazing in a yellow dress from today’s meeting. Finally pop of color and nice fit!
Milla, that dress was perfection! Simple, beautiful, bright, fit her well.
I’m with you on MM’s dress. Perfect fit, great color on her, simple cut…and no pantyhose! American designer, apparently $523 at stores so it’s not couture and can be reworn with a blazer at a later date. This is the duchess I’ve been waiting for.
So Thomas what kind of cheese do you want with your “whine”? If he really wants any relationship with his daughter stop running to the tabloids. This man is pathetic.
I don’t think he is an idiot at all, I think he is conniving but he is overestimating his own “brilliance” to manipulate the media and Meghan. Very soon these leaks, sources and insider info will pass saturation point and no longer get as many views and clicks. Then the press will turn when that happens, and the UK media will be vicious towards him.
ITA, plus I think he overestimates his place in this sorry tale. He thinks that he’s the centre of it all but he’s not, its Meghan – Daddy Dearest is just a minor puppet in this media game.
I agree with you! What a narcissist he is. It’s no wonder he’s divorced and has children that are estranged. If he really cared about protecting his daughter, he wouldn’t be talking to the press at all.
Exactly. Once it becomes clear that he no longer has any inside access to Meghan the tabloids will tire of him like they did with the half-siblings. Meghan has to know that any conversation she has with her dad will be immediately publicized. So the chances of her calling her father or even writing him are zero.
You know Doria would love to rip him a new one but he’d probably run to the media trying to paint her in a bad light too.
The entire Markle side of her family just needs to go away.
I 100% think he’s angling for a buyout. He’ll keep doing these interviews and they’ll keep getting crazier until KP throws a significant sum at him to go away forever.
Didn’t her family already demand 💰💰💰 from the royal family?
They should give him nothing, he’ll keep asking.
@Belle. Yup. Brother Tom who published the letters he sent her and emails from the lawyer. One of the emails to Meghan said that all he wanted was to have enough money to open a dog rescue. These people are neither subtle or smart.
I don’t think they would do that at all. It’s like extortion: pay once, and they keep coming back for more. Also, all the other low-life Markles will come out of the woodwork with their palms outstretched.
I think KP, CH, and BP will continue radio silence and not give into emotional blackmail. They will step up support for Meghan and close ranks even tighter IMO.
I agree KP won’t/shouldn’t bite, but that’s what Thomas Markle’s motive is here. There’s zero chance he isn’t doing this for money.
Not one penny should leave the UK to give to this horrible garbage person.
I agree, what’s his endgame? Without access to Meghan , he won’t have anything new to say and no one will bother with him
Right?!? He is not nearly as smart as he so clearly thinks he is.
He’s clearly not smart enough to realize he needs access to stay relevant. He could, however, make sh*t up (like the Brexit comments) to stay in the news a bit longer. Can you imagine all the interviews he’ll do when the Queen dies? (I cringed just typing that.)
He wants an all expenses, red carpet trip to England complete with public photo ops with The Queen – the things that he would have gotten if he had made the effort to be there for his daughter on her wedding day. He saw how Doria was treated and wants a piece of it.
DU, yes, and if he had just kept his mouth shut, been discreet and showed up for the wedding, he could have had all of that. The irony.
I think you’re not the only one going ‘urgh’ with this man. I can’t imagine what kind of stressed and strained it put Meghan in. This has to be all Vonnie doing…and he is just the mouthpiece.
I used to believe that but that’s absolving him of his actions and makes him look like a victim. Thomas knew what his other kids were saying about Meghan and cowardly never once called them out on it. They just got worse and worse until the media just got sick of them. He played the sympathy card and tried to use it to push his way into the Royal Circle.
It’s not on Vonnie anymore; Thomas is responsible for his actions. They tell him not to talk to the media and he does so anyways expecting them to forgive him despite it all. He talks about personal conversations, gets paid, and whines about Meghan not calling him. He’s a loser.
Once again, as in the Amber Tamblyn post, we are assigning a man’s comments to be on a woman. While I feel Vonnie is lower than dirt, Thomas is not far behind in selling out his daughter’s trust, and his comments/actions are on HIM. HIS doing and no one else.
Agreed – 100% a loser. If you watch his interviews you will see that he lacks any kind of empathy.
I feel for Meghan as he is turning nasty now, he’s not getting the attention he wants from her and the RF so is now resorting to lashing out and making threats – typical narcissistic behaviour. They will never comment publicly about this situation, never and that’s clearly what is bothering him the most – they are not publicly acknowledging him, he has only himself and his repugnant behaviour to blame.
He’s good for tabloid fodder and page clicks but once that wears off they (the UK tabloids) will hang him out to dry and it won’t be nice. The UK tabs are vicious.
And please spare me the ‘he’s a poor old man being taken advantage of’ and the ‘he’s mentally ill’ crap – he just a selfish, greedy attention seeking old man who thinks that selling his daughter out for money is perfectly normal and shame on Meghan and the RF for saying otherwise.
If I were royal protection I would be taking steps to control this one – his obsession with his perceived access to the RF is alarming. He’s coming across as if he should be getting audiences with TQ whenever he likes as well as some sort of Dukedom.
I think TM really got off on all the attention that was paid to him in the days before the wedding. All eyes were on him in those days, plus Meghan and Harry were doing everything they could to get him to come to them. It seems as though he wants to somehow recreate that feeling of being the center of attention of a lot of the western media, plus he had Meghan’s attention, and who knows who in the royal family might have been reaching out to him trying to help. He was in his element and loving every second of it because HE was in charge and no one could tell him a thing even though he was embarrassing himself terribly.
Now he’s trying to create another storm like right before the wedding, but it’ll never happen because they will not acknowledge his existence, publicly, again. Fool me once and all that. He really has some nerve, he really thinks his existence should matter to the queen? The delusion is real. lol
Agree with both of you.
He also has that LA fame hungry mentality. It is hard to describe but the thirst for attention in LA is tangible and there is an undercurrent of desperation involved. Especially in certain parts of the city like West LA. If you walk into certain establishments everyone turns to the door to see if the person entering is “somebody” so they can decide how to proceed. And then they keep looking to see if behind you someone MORE IMPORTANT has walked in. Nothing drives my husband more insane than driving in LA and how people gawk into your car at every stop to catch a glimpse of “someone”.
Some bigger stars won’t make any eye contact with anyone because they don’t want to see that look or even allow the other person to think they have connected with them. Others want you to recognize them so they will be treated accordingly and want all the perks and special treatment. Or if they recognize the other person they assume there is some unspoken bond and familiarity. A funny side note. This happened to my friend with one of the big 90s/2000s TV stars and she was like I don’t know her. All Mariah Carey and stuff. lol
All in all, it is weird but his behavior has that thirsty level attached.
He needs to STFU. He’s embarrassing his daughter, and looking foolish by giving all of these tabloid stories
Meghan 100% does not want to make the RF look bad by inviting her trashy dad in to the mix. She’s not a young, naive girl and I think image is very important to her. I think she wants to cultivate a certain image and her father is making that difficult. But I would bet money she is well aware that interacting with him now is going to just add fuel to the fire. She’s got her mom and her new fancy fam and this guy is showing his true colors – his older kids got their personality from him, I guess.
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Lol
Sr brought this on himself and he and the half sibs are not the first commoners to sell out a royal relative. See Kate’s uncle Gary and stripper cousin. Sam is running to Breitbart claiming she is getting threats for her blabbing, but there is no statement from local law enforcement or the FBI. Poor me is new tactic.
Breitbart? How low can you go.
Its probably the only ‘publication’ that will pay her to talk to them plus she can freely show off her racism and it will be reported on sympathetically.
I am sure she can go lower. She will find a way.
Breitbart?! Samantha is so so so desperate. Alex Jones is possibly the lowest of all, let’s see if she goes there too.
Thomas is really self centered.
That oldest daughter has/had been terrible to Meghan and her mother, before and after the wedding, and not a peep about that to the press telling her to stop, but he says he loves Meghan. No, he loves himself, and is really showing it to the world now.
I guess daddy dearest, Tom, Jr. and Vonnie are going to milk this for all it’s worth. What a loathsome bunch of people. Hopefully, the tabloids will tire of them once they’ve finished using them to embarrass and get digs at Harry and Meghan.
I also saw where the DM is still harassing Doria. An article and pictures of her leaving a bakery in L.A. I guess the tabloids want to drag her into this mess and won’t leave her in peace either.
They should take a page out of Doria’s book and keep quiet.
I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt at the beginning, but yeah, he’s blatantly selling her out at this point imo. I thought at first maybe he was just an elderly man being taken advantage of, but nah. He’s just a sh!t dad.
I actually think he should take a lot of the blame for the way his older children turned out he played a bigger part in their upbringing than Meghan s he’s a classic narcissist this is the man who sold his daughter out than used his son doing the same to claim ge caused his heart attack Apple doesn’t fall fare from the tree
@ Beth, I’m sorry but he already embarrassed Meghan.
Sure, the haters (and the tabs) will latch onto anything to tear her down but anyone with sense can see him for who he is. And if the reports are true that he declined any and all assistance prior to his pre-wedding meltdown (going to Britain early, etc,) then he is not an idiot but rather more manipulative then many want to believe.
His every utterance solidifies why Meghan has had a on/off relationship with him over the years. He shoots himself in the foot. Discretion is key when dealing with the RF. Every time he opens his mouth he justifies their freezing him out.
Yeah, he”ll pop up every so often with a provocative interview – especially once Meg and Harry have kids but eventually, his “woe is me” act won’t bring much ratings or clicks.
I still love how TM keeps saying that all the RF asked of him was to not speak to the press.
So he speaks to the press & wonders why he’s been cancelled.
IKR?! And he thinks he will be welcomed into the BRF so he can do MORE paid interviews?
God, is this idiot ever going to shut up? What prize tw@t. Geez, put a very big sock in it, fool.
I would be so mad if this man was my father. He doesn’t love Meghan, he only want attention (and money) from the press.
This must be a slow news day if they’re digging him up. No one is interested in him. We know it all already, he wants to talk to his daughter, but because he’s a big mouthed twat, she doesn’t want to talk to him. **eye roll**
What a selfishly disgusting man. I question how any father can continue to do this to his daughter and then claim he loves her. It’s manipulative and emotionally abusive. I’m glad Meghan has found the strength to not give into him. It’s a hard thing to do but she has so much love and support from her mother (GOD BLESS THAT WOMAN), her husband, his family, and her friends and even some of us out here.
I don’t care what anyone feels about her but how her father and siblings are treating her is just appalling and incredibly sad.
Thomas is a manipulative man who plays on the “poor old sickly man” trope to get sympathy all while he is draining to those around him. There is no wonder in why he was living alone in Mexico with little family to come and see him.
Now he’s Teamed up with her evil step siblings who have done nothing but bad mouth her and he wants to bully her and do the same.
It’s a shame, honestly.
I hate to be cruel but I’m glad he had heart troubles and had to drop out of the wedding. I know it hurt Meghan like hell but him not being there was the biggest blessing in disguise. He’ll never get near Meghan again and the way he showed his ass lets us all know why.
Absolutely no one can blame her for cutting her ties.
Agreed. And she will never have to look at her Wedding pictures and see him in them. He is pretty much persona non grata now. He will never see his grandchildren and never fulfil his life long ambition of meeting HM, Chuck, Wills, Henry and the rest of them.
Waiting on the those christening pics. Waiting on what insult Scammy can find for a baby.
“Scammy”, I see what you did there 🤣
If I thought I could type out “Shut up, Thomas” 27 times and have it get out of moderation I totally would. Shut up, Thomas.
Every word from the Markle side just goes to show how utterly amazing Doria is to raise a child into a successful decent person when they’ve got these people as half of their DNA. The Markles are narcissists and dumb, just paste eating dumb. “Here I am not even standing behind the curtain as I twirl my mustache” dumb. The fact that Thomas and Junior are already getting together for photo op means the money is already starting to dry up. They’ll trot out Vonnie next and probably try to do a joint interview but I’m thinking their 15 minutes is almost up. But I’ve been thinking that about the K-Klan for years.
They really aren’t the sharpest tools, are they?
It’s obvious that the half-siblings and father are 100 percent self-interested. This is their cash grab, and the father just waited (in grand narcissist fashion) to make the wedding all about him. Had Thomas actually attended, he would have probably created some type of “look at me” moment.
At this point, knowing *who/what* he is now, I wouldn’t’ve put it past him to feign heart problems while walking her down the aisle. All for the attention.
Jan, I think he’s a (fake) “faint at a funeral” type who always wants to be center of attention.
I think he would have collapsed during the event, but quickly recovered enough to wave off medical help. Just enough to be the talk of the wedding and gain sympathy.
YES Christin. I think he would have found a way to make it all about him.
His actions seem cruel and, to me, what he’s done is unforgivable. I wouldn’t blame Meghan for cutting him out but doing so makes her look unsympathetic. This will play out for a few years. I really hope this man and his kids don’t get a dime from the RF.
How does it make her look unsympathetic if what he has done is unforgivable? One can only take so much until they finally say “Enough”.
It only looks unsympathetic to people who don’t understand what it’s like to have a narcissistic parent. I’ve been accused of being heartless and unfeeling, called a b*tch and much worse because I cut off my narcissistic mother 6 years ago. I haven’t spoken to her once. I cut off my ignorant, bigoted, all-of-the-isms father 2 years ago. Haven’t spoken to him once, either and I’m no worse for it.
There’s this perception that our parents are demigods and we owe them something just for making a baby. If you have a reasonably sane family then I’m sure the idea of never speaking to them doesn’t sound right to you. But for those of us with really terrible parents it’s a matter of self-preservation. My mom almost caused me to lose custody of my kids because of her antics. As far as I’m concerned, she can f*ck right off
You are absolutely right. If someone is horribly toxic, the best thing you can do is cut them out of your life. Good luck.
MM thank you. Been there with several family members.
Agree totally. My children (all older with children of their own) have cut off their father. When we divorced I told them they had to make their own relationship with him. And that relationship has been, he does nothing and they do it all to maintain the relationship. The last straw was when they found out that their fraternal grandmother was dying on FB when he thanked his wife’s family for being so supportive with no mention of them. His loss, not theirs.
@SWACK Ugh. The beginning of my fallout was when nearly all of the guests at my dad’s wedding to his fourth wife (he’s a good Christian man, dontcha know) said, “I didn’t know B had kids” when going through the receiving line. Yeah. I hung on for another decade of emotional abuse but finally had enough when the election showed me that I wasn’t imagining things and he really was that terrible.
I hope they just let him keep going. It’s only been a few weeks since the wedding and he can’t stay quiet. He’s being told via these articles that his future with his daughter and son-in-law is in serious jeopardy. He’s showing the world just how narcissistic he is.
He’ll probably roll out another alleged health crisis if all else fails.
Oh i fully expect another health crisis to happen real time via TMZ – i used to work with a narcissist who used to pull stunts like this all the time. He once said he was in hospital with a brain aneurysm when in reality he spent the week partying in Ibiza – the moron plastered his good time all over facebook forgetting that a few of his colleagues could see it. Daddy Dearest is just as stupid.
@Digital Unicorn – Your co-worker’s stunt really takes the cake. I guess he needed a week or two of additional vacation?
As for her father, I don’t fully buy his first medical story. If Thomas were having heart issues, he would likely be strongly advised to lose weight. Maybe running his mouth is a form of exercise.
Just because he doesn’t appear to have lost weight in the last 7 weeks since the wedding doesn’t mean he wasn’t advised to nor is his lack of weight loss any sort of proof he doesn’t have medical problems. He and his two brothers seem to have the exact same build and it may be hard for all of them to lose weight. There’s plenty to criticize TM for aside from his weight IMO.
@Digital that happened with someone I used to work with! She called to say she couldn’t come to work because she was in the hospital, and was unreachable after that. All of us in the office wanted to send her flowers, so we called practically every hospital in her state, and there was no record of her anywhere.
Fast forward a few days and she changes her PROFILE PHOTO on FB to a picture of her frolicking with some guy in the Caribbean. So you didn’t even need to be FB friends with her to see the photo — the CEO was livid! How someone can be so dumb is beyond me.
Needless to say she was fired when she deigned to come back to work.
@Lizbeth – My comment was not intended to be a weight critique.
If he had a serious, stress-induced episode, then any reputable doctor would advise him to reduce stress, eat healthy, and don’t be sedentary. His focus seems to be on pap photos and interviews about this mostly self-created drama. No evidence he’s doing any of those things.
I personally believe the guy likes attention and is not serious about having a better (less stressful) relationship with her.
I agree he does not appear to be following a heart healthy lifestyle @Christin. But unfortunately, lots of people don’t after well-documented cardiac events. IF, and that’s IF, he did have stents put in, he had more wrong than a stress-related event (and yes, I remember he blamed the letter TM Jr wrote for his attack– doesn’t make it true.) I just don’t think it’s reasonable or fair to judge whether he had a medical event based on whether he appears to be following medical advice we assume he would have gotten if he had had that medical event.
One of my closest friends in the world has a terrible father who pulls health stunts. Her precious mother was battling cancer and TF (terrible father) pretended to have fallen down the stairs and injured himself to take the attention away. Mind you he had cheated on his wife incessantly including with prostitutes and gave her an STD while she was on chemo the first time she had cancer. She divorced him after being miserable with him for far too long. So she picks up the pieces of her life opens a business and finds a new love but unfortunately, her cancer comes back.
Second cancer battle ensues and she has a surgery. The day of the surgery TF magically falls down a flight of stairs in Italy. Or so he says. Now he knows they are all in the US so no one can confirm this tumble down the longest stone staircase in Italy but he plays this for all it is worth.
They are all panicked. Her brother is trying to book a flight but is torn because he doesn’t want to leave his mother. Her sister is trying to find someone to speak Italian to get to the bottom of TF’s life threatening injuries.
So, of course, these attention seekers don’t think it through.
He was busted pretty early on via social media. He posted a photo of himself eating in a restaurant when he was supposed to be fighting for his life in an Italian hospital. I mean with wine on the table and looking quite robust for someone with a near fatal brain injury.
None of them speak to him anymore. That was the last straw. But TF whines and tells everyone who will listen about his ungrateful terrible kids. He even claims Adult Parental Alienation. Like 30+ year olds just up and decide FU Dad out of nowhere. All 5 of his children from different mothers are all suffering from this newfangled APA.
Just like Tom Markle. I bet soon something will befall him or someone close as a last ditch victim attention attempt. This Narcissist will fight obscurity with all he has.
@magnoliarose that is the craziest horrible-parent story I’ve ever heard.
This leech needs to button it.
And we wonder why the rest of his kids are messed up its a miracle Meghan made it out I bet doria is asking herself what the hell was I thinking giving the way he was trashing his son before now he’s doing to Meghan I bet he played his children of against each other at some point
Triangulation is a classic narcissistic technique to maintaining control. My mother is notorious for it.
Wow. That is a good point. I bet he does this.
i feel so sorry for megan. they’re like leeches on her
I wonder if Thomas M and his son going to gang up on Meghan. Wouldn’t surprise me if they did. Hope she knows whatever she tells her father will be told to the press. It’s a good thing he didn’t go to the wedding. imagine the stories he would have told.
He is the worst.
I’ve been wondering and haven’t heard….what happened with the ex-sister-in-law and her kids that went over to commentate the wedding and were scrapped from commentating after they landed? Has anyone heard anything more about it?
One of the kids was caught with a knife in a London nightclub and then blamed Donald Trump for tweeting that London was a war zone, so you know low key as expected.
ITV were so sneaky about that. What they didn’t tell everyone was that they were scrapped after the grandson being found with a knife amongst other things. The mother is also seriously mentally ill. She posted a picture on her FB that she actually attended the wedding. Her friends were commenting asking what Meghan looked like as she passed by.
Really mentally ill family. All of them on the Markle side.
Nope, they had already been dropped from the tv gig before they knife incident – the story is that the palace pulled strings to get them kicked off air. ITV are one the broadcasters that do the Queens xmas speech so they as a broadcaster have a lot of access to the RF so I guess if they wanted to keep that access ………
Did anyone read that a friend of Charles’ called Thomas a “lump” and said it was good he didn’t go to the wedding. He called them all but Doria “common.” I wonder if he went rogue or this is how they are going to get their digs back?
@ travels oh please spare with me the charity started at home nonsense just because Meghan father pay for half of her education early on in life doesn’t mean he entitled to access to her new life . Her half siblings have trashed her to any news outlets that would have them her half sister has been racist jealous vindicated ass to her since the moment Meghan been born but let’s put the blame on all Meghan because it’s her fault that her dad can’t behave like a normal person . And if the apple doesn’t fall too far for the tree then guess Meghan will continue to be the person her mother raised her to be which is a classy intelligent human being who won’t stoop to levels of her half siblings and father .
Your job as a parent is to take care of your child, if you need allegiance or think your kid owes you something for doing your job, then you shouldn’t have kids.
Dad needs to read his British history. The royals have stayed in power by relentlessly acting in their self-interest. Having a father-in-law who speaks to the press without their permission undermines them.
Time for dad to realize he has been tossed on the scrap heap. He is embarrassing himself like an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend who keeps hanging around hoping for a reconciliation instead of moving on.
I’d say it’s time for Dad to realize that actions have consequences. It’s a lesson that I’ve managed to teach my preschool-aged kid–you have to wonder why a grown man is struggling with it.
You don’t need to read about British history or the royal family to know that once trust is broken, it’s very difficult to repair. Because in the end, that’s what this is about: trust–not protocol or politics. Meghan trusted her Dad not to talk to the press about her. Dad broke that trust again and again and consequently, his daughter isn’t talking to him.
Exactly.
Meghan Markles pappy gives me the creeps. He is not some poor innocent old man. He is a straight up Psychopath.
If anyone here has every seen that episode of CSI Las Vegas with the dentist that kidnaps girls over a 20+ year period and has no remorse about it because he know’s he old and has lived a good life – that is who he reminds me of.
Of course he is not a killer, but it’s that same lack of empathy I see in him that I can’t shake off. The constant ‘I know I shouldn’t be talking, but I want to and after all what can they do to me attitude’. He know’s what he is doing and does;t care.
I think he is struggling with the fact that Meghan now has someone else, i.e. another male figure (Harry) at the centre of her world and her loyalties to him and the crown and greater than her forgiveness of her father’s stupid antics.
I feel like he played his daughter and lost and now just doesn’t care. He will now just antagonise her again and again to get a rise and get her to re-confirm her loyalty to him. Problem is he has now likely showed himself a little too much and she will never allow him into her life again.
Keep doing you Meghan. Cut him off.
Ew. This guy is a grotesque excuse for a father, and media need to stop interviewing him and reporting the garbage he emits. He doesn’t deserve anything except disconnection.
The crappy thing is, when you have a terrible parent like this, even once you’ve accepted that they’re terrible at being a parent and they always will be, and you’ve taken appropriate measures to protect yourself, you still always carry the sadness that the lifetime of unconditional love and thoughtfulness that other lucky people get from their competent parents is something you will never know. Even if you have good surrogate parent figures in your life who fill your life with love, there’s still a scar there which will alway hurt from time to time, forever. Poor Meghan.
Her father and his other children have been nothing but hostile and abusive toward Meghan. She owes them nothing.
What part of “Shut up” does he not understand? Unfortunately, now that he keeps talking, the tabloids feel free to make up even more crap than before. Reading that last article where the reporter “quoted” Thomas Markle as saying, “They’re shot of me…” screams made up. Shot of me is not an American expression. Markle Sr. and the other low-rent relatives are going to be tabloid fodder for the foreseeable future. And they don’t care.
Yes, “shot of me?” What does that even mean?
British speak usually. It stood out to me too. Done with me. I have never heard an American use it.
I have heard a Southern expression – “get shed of” – that I thought might be similar. It means get rid of something.
Her family on the father’s side all seem so narcissistic. Nope, they won’t go quietly. They REFUSE to be ignored. Bunny boilers–the lot of them. Meghan has every right to protect herself and stay away. They’ve shown their true colors. They’ll sell her out for a six pack of beer. Or less. Stay away!
Oh dear. Seriously, when will the penny drop? That talking about the Markles at large is just encouraging the Markles at large to keep on talking. It doesn’t matter how negative the talking it, all its doing is giving them misplaced relevance that ensures they’ll keep them talking.
Please, if you have the tiniest consideration for Meghan, stop giving these people a platform. Stop contributing to her embarrassment.
Because that’s what you’re doing.
Please stop.
Evie, what does “shot” mean? Tired of?
This has reality show audition written all over it.
I’ve read this site for years and never felt the need to comment. I loathe this man. I am trying to be rational about it given the fact that I don’t know him or Meghan personally.
I have a similar parent (in the form of a mother) who completely lacks empathy. Will make EVERYTHING about her; including my disasterous wedding (without 2 billion watching).
She completely doesn’t understand or pretends to not understand when I cut her off.
This is the person who took out life insurance on me, forged my signature to get it thru. I didn’t know for years she did that and only found out by accident when the insurance company called me about renewal. I called her and asked WTF. She actually had the gall to yell and scream at me to renew, pay for it and to make sure she is beneficiary and not my husband. It sends chills up my spine to this day.
I got very sick recently and she insisted on wanting to come to hospital during the surgery. There is no way in hell I would allow. I changed the surgery date. I cannot trust her. And each opportunity given to her she turns out like Tom Sr. All about the money and the more she gets cut off the worse she gets. Tom Sr wont learn because he can’t and doesn’t want to.
Meghan shouldn’t go anywhere near that lunatic without and army of RPOs and snipers on roof tops. This is a man on mission who wants to slash and burn everything if he doesn’t get his way. That is a very dangerous person. The only time Meghan should see him is at his funeral. This is cold and harsh for those who have great loving kind parents..to those of us with our own versions of Tom Sr, you understand.
I’m so sorry that you have such a toxic mother.
Thank you. Luckily, I had a grandmother who loved me very much, and that made all the difference in who I am vs who I could have turned out to be.
Holy frack. Nothing screws you up like family. I hope you can be well, T. Lurker.
Thank you very much. Working on it.
I wish you the best. Sorry you’ve had to deal with a parent like this.
Comments like yours have helped me to understand toxic people and how we each have to protect our own sanity and well being.
Christin, thank you.
If Meghan wants her marriage to Harry to last, she needs to never speak with Tom Sr again. My marriage crumbled as a result because my now ex husband parents are still married today, something like 50+ yrs.
They didn’t understand why I didn’t want to go home for the holidays or why I didn’t invite my mother to major events. Like Meghan, I had to rely on friends. My siblings are similar to Samantha Markle and Tom Jr. It weighs on you. It weighs you down.
I’d travelled to the farthest places I could find to get away. And when the opportunity to came for me to move to another country, I didn’t think twice.
Outside of the embarrassment, it really does affect your mental health and your physical health. I stopped getting crippling migraines when I literally blocked her numbers and email. It took me yrs to figure out why I would be in the ER suffering from crippling pain. The doctors couldn’t figure it out. Only after 1 faithful night she called at midnight yelling about absolutely nothing. As soon as I hung up, I had a panic attack and migraine and ended up calling 911. It was in that moment it dawned on me she is the cause.
Cutting her off in itself was one of the hardest thing to do. I felt a lot of guilt, but I had to decide I wanted to live and not let the stress from her kill me.
I am rambling. I hope the Royal Family close ranks and if guilt should over come Meghan and she decides to speak and or see Tom Sr that they and Harry will intervene.
Tom Sr’s mental state can’t be trusted, not because he is mentally ill. But because his motives are malicious and filled with ill will for his own flesh and blood. And he now has nothing left to lose and he will go as far as he needs to in order to hurt her. Tough choice she has. Live with a some guilt (it fades in with time) or choose her own survival.
My comments are apparently now awaiting moderation. I’ll go back to lurking. Thanks for the kind comments.
Am I the ONLY one who always thinks I’m looking at a picture of Harvey Weinstein when this mug initially shows up???
Nope. Every time.
I feel icky every time I read stories about her crazy family, but I can’t seem to look away just yet. I think people will tire of them soon though and we will only see them pop up during major life events for M&H. They will still be whining about being shut out, but for the most part people will be numb to their behavior. It won’t stop the usual bottom of the barrel rags bringing them out though.
How come Jr. could get into England but not into Mexico, hence the Border meeting.
Vonnie said it was a pap set up.
When you think Senior can’t sink any lower, somehow he finds a way.