The Duchess of Sussex is so smart to keep her communications with her father written, not spoken. She learned the hard way to keep written records of her dealings with her trashy relations AND Harry’s garbage relations too. Last Friday, Meghan’s spokesperson confirmed that Meghan had emailed her father after hearing about his mysterious foot or leg amputation last week. That confirmation, that Meghan sent an email, set off a tabloid blitz about how the email address was no longer active, and why didn’t she call, and why isn’t she flying to the Philippines. It’s more than likely that Meghan responded by contacting the American consulate in the Philippines, having them check up on Toxic Tom, and checking on the Daily Mail’s Caroline Graham, who remains embedded with the Markles. Well, it looks like Meghan was finally able to get a handwritten letter delivered to her father.
A letter written by the Duchess of Sussex to her father has been delivered to his hospital bed. The letter, handwritten by the Duchess from her home in California, has been sent to a hospital in Cebu in the Philippines, where he is recovering from an operation to amputate his leg. The letter has now been received, a spokesman said.
It had taken several days to arrive, with sources close to the Duchess citing challenges in the time difference and logistics. The Duchess is said to have previously attempted to email her father, using an address he no longer accesses, and has now replicated the same message via letter.
Thomas Markle, 81, is recovering from a stay in intensive care after having had his leg amputated below the knee during surgery to remove a blood clot. Mr Markle has told the Mail on Sunday: “I don’t want to die estranged from Meghan. I want to meet my grandkids and Harry.”
Since being in hospital, he has told a journalist from the newspaper, whom he counts as a friend, that he was “confused” by reports that the Duchess had attempted to make contact, insisting he had not changed his number and had received no messages.
A spokesman for the Duchess said: “Given that a Daily Mail reporter has remained at her father’s bedside throughout, broadcasting each interaction and breaching clear ethical boundaries, it has been exceedingly difficult for the Duchess to contact her father privately, despite her efforts over the past several days. With the support of reliable and trusted contacts, her correspondence is now safely in his hands.”
From Meghan’s side of things, I hope this is the end of it. She did her due diligence, managed to get a letter to her father, and no surprise, he’s still the worst piece of sh-t ever. And now he’s gotten a fraction of her attention and made a horse’s ass out of himself on the global stage for the millionth time. Mission accomplished. This might end up being a repeat of when Thomas sold/gave Meghan’s letter to the Mail in 2019, and if so, Meghan will run it back and sue the Mail again. Tom will continue to milk this “amputation” story for a while, I’m sure, but I genuinely hope Meghan’s engagement ends here.
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Surely it is unethical to camp out at the hospital bedside of a “dying man” purely to gain a tabloid exclusive? To no one’s surprise the Fail has no printed her statement calling them out just noting that the message is in TM’s hands.
Plus hospitals do limit visitors to patients to next of kin not tab reporters.
I’m sure atp Caroline Graham considers herself next of kin. And where has his son, Thomas, been through all this psychodrama? We seem to have misplaced him. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m also sure the letter or, at least a paraphrasing of it, will hit the DM soon.
All children deserve and need parents but not all parents deserve children. I get that.
I’m sure she very carefully worded said letter just in case said letter is sold to a tabloid and printed and I’m sure she has a duplicate copy of said letter if it is printed and re-worded!!
This.
Came here to say the same thing. Very well played by Meghan.
The fact that it is handwritten is a reminder of the letter he sold – and that the media was sued for. So if its
contents make it into the media it’s fair game to sue them, but almost as importantly it’s a clear public record of what garbage people he & the British media are.
If any part of her letter is mentioned in the tabloids it just proves her statement. Her saying that a Daily Mail reporter is staying with her dad and how unethical it is and how it’s crossing boundaries is a great call out.
It’s probably a matter of time before it is.
She wrote it with full knowledge it would be published. She’s well known for hand written notes, but it’s also a good strategy as proof of a note being manipulated. In the AI era it probably doesn’t matter, but time was a hand writing analysis would prove manipulation.
I was just wondering this – is there some kind of legal warning that she could put on there, like “Personal correspondence, not for publication, THIS MEANS YOU Daily Fail!”
I’m glad that the statement explicitly calls out the ethics of having a Daily Mail reporter embedded next to someone recovering from major surgery, and controlling all information given to and released from that person.
I really have to wonder what the lawyers that represent the Daily Mail think about all of this nonsense. To behave in such an unethical manner literally weeks before the person that you are targeting’s husband’s trial against you with multiple other people about your invasive tactics begins.
They can’t believe that this was a good approach to take, so I wonder if they have been raining down holy hell on the editors at the Daily Mail about this? This just links in a very close proximity in the public’s mind unethical journalism around a private family matter, with someone in one of those families suing you for illegal information gathering. Did they think that the negative publicity around this would force Harry to accept a settlement, because they can’t possibly believe after 4 years that he would drop the case. I just don’t understand the thought process over there.
@ Dee (2) thank you for such a good summary of how reckless and risky the Fail are with such a blatantly unethical conduct on the eve of a court case about journalists using unethical methods to gather information. They are just proving the depths to which they will stoop to gain an exclusive. Okay TM may be an enthusiastic participant but Meghan does not want any tab, but especially not the Fail, recording private communications for “entertainment” purposes? Are they stupid and desperate?
I think there’s likely a number of things going on that can explain spurring Toxic Tom to sing again:
One, Lord Rothemere, the owner of the DM has to finance buying the Telegraph (not to mention survive inevitable regulatory hurdles with a Labour government), and Meghan and Harry stories may be the only thing keeping the Mail afloat at the moment, that and coverage of every reality show produced in Britain plus immigration topics…No one seems to know where he’s going to get the money for it because his entire estate and business holdings wouldn’t cover it
Two, Rothemere is probably happy to do the British RF a solid and give distraction to drive attention away from the Andrew fiasco as well as the do-nothing Waleses, Charles’ cancer as well as a Parliamentary inquiry into Royal housing. To the British RF that means only one thing: distract with the Sussexes, stat! Two birds, one stone
Three, that pesky lawsuit. Rothemere will be facing Harry in court (and this time, I think those in the original suit haven’t dropped out so there will also be Sir Elton John and a bunch of other celebrities giving testimony). Reams and reams of bad publicity, at a time when he’s trying to close the Telegraph sale is no bueno
Old stories about how Meghan broke protocol, how she and Harry are begging for money on the street and how everyone in Hollywood hates them isn’t doing the job. Time for Toxic Tom! Ethical concerns are the least of Rothemere’s concerns at the moment, if they ever were a concern at all
His dm friend needs to leave the scene if he wants to see the youngest grandkids. How come he is not asked about his wanting to see the adult grandchildren. I think harry and Meghan would be very wary.of this man staging photo ops with them.
No question. They can’t give him access to the children as photo ops are guaranteed.
It’s so sad to see how greed and stupidity has ruined Tom’s relationship with his daughter. The only daughter who helped him and showed him love. Because no way did that other daughter did anything for that man.
Meghan used to brag about her dad and would share about her loved for him. I feel for her because it can be really difficult to realize your dad is self serving and uncaring. But I hope she can move forward from his manipulation. I did.
Children with narcissistic parents usually brag about those parents in order to deflect the parents’ negative attentions away from them. It’s a form of self-protection. I don’t doubt that he loved her father, but he didn’t become like this overnight. He has *always* been a piece of work. But M is a glass half full person, full of grace, and always trying to see the good in people. So she may well have convinced herself that it was the tabloids that turned him into what he is, but on a certain level I’m sure she knows what he is, and I’m sure that after all she has been through, her mother has set her straight. It’s similar to how Harry needed a court case to see that his own family was the driving force behind the harm which was being done to him and his wife and children. And even then, he’s still giving his own awful, self-pitying father grace.
Narcissists can also be very charismatic, which is my theory of how he appealed to Dora, a woman insanely out of his league. And after the marriage or maybe not until after the baby, he became condescending and controlling.
She never married again, right? She probably really valued her personal space after enduring him.
I think she did what she had to do and that’s the end of it. She can’t trust him because of his relationship with the DM and Tom Jr has been making threats against her on YouTube. I don’t think the DM will publish her letter but they will publish Toxic Tom’s response to it.
Tom junior has arrest records for d u I and threatening his ex girlfriend. He has no shame
Horrible human Tom has a lot of nerve to even mention a meet and greet with Meghan’s children and husband after everything he has done and continues to do to Meghan.
And he made demands,of wanting visitation rights and wanted pictures of the children which would have ended up in the tabs,hours later. He ignored the sussexes,phone calls and texts also when they reached out to him
Happy Meghan was able to get her letter to her father because this is something she felt she must do. Also impressed how she got the` US Consulate involved to make this happen. Sympathetic to her because all of this was so unnecessary. Also hope she continues to move forward with her husband and children while this man rots in his misery and she continues to ignore his pleas to disrupt her life. He got her attention, now she can be done with him.
A+++ statement, it is very unethical what the Fail is doing
m is much more gracious than me. sending a consulate to check would’ve been the end of it for me.
Meghan has done more for that man that anyone with a heart and a conscience should ever have expected from her . He doesn’t deserve her kindness. Here hoping her letter is something generic like , get well soon and happy holidays . Sincerely Meg.
It’s way more than i would have done because I would have just reminded all these people that I lost my father when the British media and tabloid decided to play dirty games and he went along with them . She owes him nothing. Especially after what he did and continues to do to her .
Can someone point out how INSANE it is that someone has literally moved to the Philippines and built her career around Meghan’s father just to keep getting at them? I just think that needs to be talked about more cos it’s blowing my mind.
I have been commenting on this aspect. Yes, it is very bizarre and, as many here have pointed out, quite unethical. It might even be a legal situation if it can be proven that Graham has prevented Meghan from communicating privately with her father. It’s like he is her hostage to get to Meghan.
Truly insane. This woman’s entire existence is about laying traps for Meghan. How does one justify that to themselves?
It sounds like her letter is basically a handwritten version of the email she sent. Which he already got but denies he didn’t because the Mail can’t monetize it. That statement about them being unethical have put them in notice but they’ll try it anyway. Now if he starts complaining about his health and needing to get in touch with Meghan, he now has a US Embassy contact he can get in touch with. There’s nothing more she needs to do and can handle this privately.
I am sure she writes any letter to her father with the possibility for it to leak and Daily Mail probably have a whole budget for law suits and would publish it anyways.
Dear Princess Meghan—
I too had parents divorce when I was young.
I too loved my dad with all my heart.
I too continued to give him the benefit of the doubt for years, though he plainly showed he did not deserve it.
I too was finally forced to break with him as an adult, after his behavior crossed a line too painful to come back from.
I have been where you stand, though thankfully no vile press scrutiny & manipulation added to my burden. For me, forty years have passed, and he’s gone, and I do not regret finally letting his own actions remove him from my life.
It’s painful, even now, but the pain that separation allowed me to avoid was so much greater. Sometimes our only choice is between bad and worse.
My heart with yours. May you be at peace with yourself and with those you love.