Meghan Markle has been estranged from her father Thomas Markle for the past seven years, but had her very first correspondence at the end of last year following his serious health scare.
The Duchess of Sussex had sent a handwritten letter to her father, who was recovering from his life-saving leg amputation at a hospital in the Philippines. The retired Hollywood lighting executive is now back in the US to continue medical treatment, raising hopes that father and daughter may be reunited.
Although Thomas has expressed his wishes to finally meet his daughter and grandchildren with Prince Harry, the meeting is unlikely to take place. According to royal expert Hugo Vickers, Thomas must “feel extremely let down” given the state of his family.
Before Meghan fell out with her father ahead of her wedding to King Charles’ younger son, it was revealed that Harry had never met his father-in-law. Vickers suggested Meghan would have been ashamed.
“I’m raising it as a possibility,” he said GB News. “I think more likely she was nervous that he might say something to Prince Harry.”
He explained that Thomas was good to Meghan when she was growing up.
“If you listen to what he says as opposed to how his words are being reported, you will find a decent man who must feel extremely let down,” he said. “It was actually a member of Prince Harry’s family who suggested that she might have been nervous about what he might say.”
It is possible that Meghan still does not want Harry and her father to meet, which is why she has also rejected all plans to reunite with Thomas Markle.
