Thomas Markle continues to be awful. As we discussed yesterday, Thomas appeared on Good Morning Britain for another tragic interview with Piers Morgan. This has been happening for months now, so I’m surprised that people are still like “what’s happening with Thomas Markle, why won’t Meghan speak to him, what can be done?” Nothing can be done. Thomas is hellbent on emotionally abusing his daughter, and he’s colluding with the British press to do it. The only thing that can be done is to stop consuming his interviews as “entertainment” and stop treating Thomas Markle like he has anything valid to say. He’s a liar, he’s profiting from Meghan, he’s toxic, and he continues to show why Meghan was 100% correct to cut him out of her life.
Here’s what I do wonder though: do “palace courtiers” understand that Meghan’s father is toxic and abusive, and that she’s right to ignore him? This isn’t a communications problem, per se. But I think some of the royal communications officers are treating it that way:
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. 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.
I would hope that the palace courtiers would know that if they did panic and freak out about Thomas “pleading with the Queen” to step in, they’re playing into his dumb, toxic hands. And why is this a bridge too far? Thomas Markle has already used Princess Diana’s name, Prince Charles’ name, Harry’s name and more in his toxic quest to embarrass and shame his daughter. Hopefully, the Queen ignores this piece of sh-t, just like everybody else.
Also: People Magazine confirms that Doria Ragland will not spend Christmas at Sandringham. I bet she spends time with the Sussexes just after Christmas though.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
No they are loving the fact that Meghan is being crusified by the press and that people are claiming Kate & Williamthe true couple.
Penny Junor was on loose women the same station as the interview. They maybe freaking out because of the public backlash but they’re not freaking out about her. They were begging her to talk to him. Sooo
I hope people do feel bad for her. No matter what the papers say. It’s not pitty that i feel for Meg, it’s like girl, i get it, i understand you must feel all the negativity, but you are better than this. This too shall pass.
Robert Jobson who is PoW’s biographer was advertising it. This is palace approved.
Every time he speaks, it just shows us exactly why Megan isn’t speaking with him, and anybody who can’t see that is blind.
If thy put him on Big Brother i will feel sick to my stomach.
Is that a possibility? Yes know, I used to think that the American media and the culture around celebrities was bad, but it seems to be just as bad, maybe worse across the pond.
oh dear lord, what a ghastly thought.
In that Julia Roberts/Hugh Grant romcom, she points out that the British gossip media is more invasive than the American counterpart.
ETA: Nottinghill. Haven’t had coffee yet this am.
+1 That man is a disgrace, and Meghan is absolutely right to not give him any notice. Every single discerning human being can see that he is toxic, a narcissist and a manipulative man.
I don’t think anybody in the BRF is happy with this situation. Even if they didn’t like Meghan (and it is a BIG IF, because I think she has charmed the senior royals) , no one likes this constant embarrasment being thrown at their doors. I would be apalled if my FIL showed this lack of love for his child, respect to muy family, honor and class. I can imagine an intitution like the Firm would be quite annoyed with him.
This interview just feeds the trolls like Piers Morgan, Thomas Markle sr and the DM…. And he won’t stop… Sadly.
I think the BRF, courtiers and grey men are completely befuddled because they have never had to deal with a relative who behaves like this on such a large scale. How do you rein in someone who is clearly enjoying and profiting from embarrassing his daughter and, by extension, the BRF.
I actually don’t think Thomas Markle even cares for his daughter because surely he would not do this if he did. I think this is 100% manufactured drama to GET PAID. I think he has found a source of income and is making it clear that either he gets paid to speak out or he will want to get paid to keep his silence. That much is implied. Tell me, if Meghan reached out and didn’t pay him, he’d be on the phone to the tabloids to tell everyone about their conversation. He is absolutely disgusting. And the media are just as guilty for giving him a medium to spout all this nonsense.
This and meeting the Queen. I think all Thomas really wants is to meet the Queen and hob nob with the royals, as he keeps saying “there should be a place for me” on Buckingham Palace balcony.
No clearly whatever drives his need to torment her isn’t fueled by fatherly love. We don’t even know Meghan and we hurt for her in this awful position. I would question anyone doing this to their worst enemy, let alone their own daughter.
TaniaOG, I agree with you 100%! If the media would stop talking to him, he would go away. And Piers Morgan is on that likes to stir up,trouble, hence the reason he has TM on his show so often. I think most of the bad publicity comes from slimmy creatures like him. All for the ratings and all for him to be perceived as the one coming to “bear” peace within her family.
There was a great article in the Guardian yesterday (British newspaper and website) about how obnoxiously Piers Morgan and Thomas Markle treat Meghan. I liked these quotes particularly:
“In both these cases, we have men acting like they have some kind of right over a woman: they are entitled to Meghan’s time, and their feelings about being ignored by her are more important than her feelings about them slating her all over the media.”
“Hot tip, men: women are allowed to have boundaries and you insisting she is wrong to have them is a really great way to get her to reinforce them.”
That was a great and very spot on piece.
Piers Morgan reacted very badly to it. I laughed.
@Susannah — Thank you for putting up this quote from the Guardian. It makes me happy that SOMEONE in the media gets it. I am tired of the free-for-all dog pile on her every day. Let the woman live!
@Fluffy Princess – Yesterday on Sky News, there was a woman interviewed who said that Meghan is African-American or biracial as she identifies herself and said, “We have to ask ourselves if there’s something about that which seems to be upsetting the body politic.”
I think people are FINALLY coming around to the core reason Meghan is getting such abusive press.
Piers Morgan acts like they had the greatest friendship of all time like since they were Kids and she suddenly ghosted him after meeting Harry,he needs to get over it and shut up already.
Tom Jr has also weighed in on the whole controversy. DM has an article about it. I hope they are continued to be ignored because that is the best. Even if he is sent a Christmas card that will be fodder for him to give more interviews.
Not only is he abusive, but the press is openly abusive of a pubic figure. This has to stop. It’s sick. He can scream into the void all he wants, but someone picking up a camera to record it and broadcast it is the real crime. If someone broadcast my abusive father’s rantings about me, it would ruin my life (Thomas reminds me so much of my own father, who I cut off ten years ago)
People should complain to ofcon. I did. It’s clearly abuse at this point.
Why are people behaving as if the Markles are the most scandalous problem to happen to the Royal Family? If the royals survived Charles and Diana’s divorce and then Diana’s death, I know they will successfully overcome the Markles. All of this drama is being orchestrated and amplified by the British tabloids. I honestly believe that Meghan is the one holding back from ripping her family to shreds. She has the power and connections to destroy them, but she is choosing not to. Meghan is way more forgiving and dignified than people are giving her credit for.
This man is like recurring toenail fungus. If he truly wants a relationship with his daughter and future grandchild, shut up and stop yapping to the media. Work privately out of the limelight on repairing the damage he caused. Also, stop dragging your daughter’s in laws into this mess.
Horrible man
Why is piers morgan still allowed on the air? That man should be in jail! He is truly vile.
I was trying to come up with a word to describe him, I think vile is the perfect word.
Why is he so butt hurt like they new each other for 20 years and they were BFFs? Harry probably advised her how toxic he is and she should stay away.
@ Loopy: Harry (like most armed service personnel) will remember Piers’ atrocious behaviour in publishing faked photos showing GB soldiers committing war crimes. It was disgusting.
How can they stop this though? A portion of British society is clearly never going to stop clicking on the articles or tuning in to the ridiculous interviews. So is there anything that the palace or Meghan/Harry can do? Do we think that if they continue to completely ignore him he will eventually fade away? Normally with toxic/narcissistic family you can cut them off and they eventually wear themselves out and leave you alone (some taking a lot longer than others…), but this man is always going to have a platform. It is truly terrible for Meghan and Harry.
People who have never dealt with truly toxic family are naturally going to think that just getting in touch with him and talking to him will solve the problem, but it won’t. He might stop speaking to the press for a little while, but as soon as something doesn’t go his way and he perceives he has lost control of Meghan he will start right back up again, this time armed with whatever information he has been given to try to shut him up in the first place.
Yes! This is sadly so true!
Dealing with a narcissistic sister who also has borderline personality disorder has shown this to me. She isn’t being treated or trying to change, so it always the same pattern of behavior. It doesn’t matter what I do, she will always twist reality to fit her delusional narrative. I’ve finally realized no communication is the only way. It sucks, but it’s better than being abused.
He’ll always use anything she says against her. He can’t be trusted-period.
He’s never even condemned Samantha once for everything she says about Meghan but spends interview after interview condemning Meghan for not speaking to him. He can’t be trusted on his own but especially because of his proximity to the other daughter. They’d sell photos and video of Meghan, Harry and especially Baby Sussex to the highest bidder as soon as Thomas was out the front door!
Yes, that’s so true. Even if they could get him to come around Samantha will always be in his ear, and she really is the worst.
You’re right, they can’t stop it … but if they don’t have anything new to report, interest will die in them. Eventually. Look at the data we use clicking on these stories in this website! dysfunction sells … loll.
This is just another example of women being treated like they are property and men bashing a woman who dared to say no to them. She is grown,’ she owes him nothing. I agree with the assessment in a previous story posted here-he really doesn’t care about having a relationship with her. He’s just mad because she chooses not to speak to him. He rehashes the same sh@t over and over. “They told me not to speak to the press and now I don’t understand why they won’t talk to me” WTF????
He knows exactly why she’s not speaking to him. He just wants to hear it from her so he can sell it to the highest bidder.
I agree with this and read someone yesterday that really stuck with me, “Say no to a man and find out who he really is” it just kind of sums up that sense of entitlement that occurs when you refuse someone, you know.
I’m just happy to FINALLY see so many articles yesterday in main-stream media stating how Meghan’s POS father is being emotionally abusive and how he’s stalking his daughter via the British press…
That brought me a modicum of delight…because THAT’S calling…”a thing…a thing”…
He’s not being a Father…he’s being an abusive toxic male….
And this isn’t the FIRST time he’s done this to her…I’m betting this manipulative behavior on his part is the biggest plank in their relationship platform….
Am I the only one who doesn’t get why anyone still bothers with him? He has no new information. Its the same as always. Why do they give him airtime? If I were a british taxpayer I’d be thrilled that someone with any work ethic finally showed up to do the job I pay the royal family for. It’s not like Meghan is sitting around spending her days redecorating freshly redone apartments and making sausages for her husband her pretends to work while he’s visiting his ex girlfriend.
This man will not cease. He is hell bent on wiggeling his way into hrr life. I find it ironic that people post the baby is her meal ticket and then criticize the fact she won’t engage her dad. HE is looking for a mealticket. And she knows it. He wants FAME, like Ma Middleton. Stand tall Megs. Lookout for your family, baby and yourself!
Estrangement from a family member should never be taken lightly. There should be attempts to communicate and compromise, if possible. We will never know how long this has been going on or how many real attempts by either side have been made to reconcile or peacefully coexist.
****BUT CLEARLY, Thomas Markle has crossed too many lines! His toxic behavior is relentless. How could a healthy resolution possibly be reached with someone showing such selfish, delusional and emotionally abusive behavior towards his daughter? Not to mention it’s all being done publicly, while she’s pregnant and already under attack by the media?
I hope Megan stays strong and maintains healthy boundaries.
There is no way to deal with Thomas and samantha.
They will keep talking until the press stop paying.
Pretty pathetic.
Honestly wish Meghan was the b***h people claim she is because it would be nothing for her to drag their skeletons out the closet and expose the markles with the help of “sources”.
Evil Papa Smurf will continue to talk sh!t as long as the tabloids will pay to listen to him, its that simple – he may not be getting paid directly for the interviews but he is being paid for the photographs etc.. and the royalties that come from them being sold on. He is loving all this, he is revelling in the attention he is getting from it all – after all a victim gotta victim.
I wonder if this is the first time that she has truly cut off all contact with him – he even said Doria is not speaking to him. It could be that this is the first time she has actually followed through and cut him off, he’s clearly been able to manipulate her but now that the RF has her back she’s finally cut them all out like the cancer they are.
So he was at her first wedding, I wonder how he behaved at that?
Someone posted a comparison of the pic he showed from her wedding to actual wedding pictures and it is pretty clear his pic was not taken at the same event. The dress was completely different. I’m not sure he was really there.
According to the DM, Markle says that he will spend Christmas with friends and will hand out presents to underprivileged children (cue the violins).
He has two other children and several grandchildren – if spending Christmas with family is so important to him, why doesn’t he spend the holiday with them? And why don’t the interviewers ever ask him that question?
Handing out presents to disadvantaged children?! Oh brother. I wouldn’t want my kid anywhere near him or his gross photo ops, Christmas or not.
I do not follow this. Is this guy after money? Is that what he wants? Clearly there is a nasty smell of narcissism there.
Its all about the attention, he isn’t getting any from Meghan and the RF and is using the press to bully them into giving into him and treating him like he is royal himself.
His behaviour is that of a classic narcissist, the last thing you do is give them the attention they crave.
I think Thomas is so used to get his way when it’s comes to Meghan that he just pissed off that she finally cut him off and won’t take his calls anymore. I also believe he loves the attention the British media is giving him we all know that Thomas is being paid by the British press there no way in hell that man hasn’t made a dime for trashing his daughter. Him and Samantha have so many things in common they love playing the victims in all this . And piers Morgan is a jerk who looking more and more like a stalker who obsessive with Meghan Meghan wasn’t the only cast member from suits who meet him and had drinks with him why he is so fixated on Meghan . He keeps using that they meet up for drinks as some sort of proof that Meghan is a social climber when in reality her and co worked where in England to promote suits that it’s if he thinks that one meeting made him Meghan friend then piers Morgan is clearly a idiot who doesn’t know how the entertainment industry works . That’s makes his obsession with Meghan even worst because they only meet once in real life and he won’t let go of that one moment in time . I think the reason that Meghan hasn’t say anything about her family because everyone can see Thomas and Samantha And Thomas jr for what they are toxic human being I can’t even imagine what hell Meghan must have to put up with when she younger from Samantha. It’s funny how when she was In suits no one in family dare say anything about her they just ignore her like she didn’t even exist but the moment she gotten involved with Harry Samatha is changing her name back to markles even though she hasn’t use her maiden name in decades. Now they want to knowledge Meghan now their all like we’re family .
I also would like to point out he didn’t do the whole I want to spend Christmas with my daughter thing last year but suddenly wants to this year with rumors of Doria spending Christmas with Meghan and the rest of the Windsors. Of course we know now it’s not happening but I’m sure when he heard about it he speed dialed his buddy Piss Morgan.
He is butt hurt that he isn’t being treated like royalty – he feels he’s more royal the The Queen just because he’s Meghan’s father. He wants their attention, not Meghans, he wants them to kiss his fat McDonald’s ass. He wants access so he can brag about it and sell it to the press to make a quick buck.
Its not about him and that bothers him – he’s just like IQ45.
‘Fat McDonald’s ass’. Perfect.
We actually don’t have any proof whether Doria is coming or not. None. We have a lot of heresay, a few rumours, some ‘sources’ have spoken, but as to whether she really is coming, who knows?
I hope Doria is invited for Christmas to see the twitter rants from that jealous petty little racist troll Samantha would be funny . It’s amazing how Thomas needs to spend Christmas so badly with Meghan now but before she was with Harry they haven’t spend Christmas together in years . It’s all about accesss for Thomas he wants to live the high life being associated with the royals. I think the only reason he hasn’t say anything about Samantha behavior toward Meghan is because he mostly like agrees with Samantha.
I think they will keep whatever plans there are as low key as possible. We may find out after the fact if she was there or not. I don’t trust People magazine because they are as bad as some of the other rags out there. Wait until we are close to when the baby is due. All the Markles will go off the rail then.
The headline in the British newspaper this morning was something like “Thomas Markle mouths off again” and very much took the tone of, why won’t this strange, bullying man shut up?
Tide is firmly turned against him, if it was ever anything else.
Anyone I’ve ever chatted to about Thomas has always thought he seemed like a nightmare. I feel so sorry for Meghan with this nightmare of a parent, she is damned if she does talk to him (as he will then trot off to the daily mail to debrief them), and damned if he doesnt (as he will carry on trying to publicly embarrass her).
The last time Thomas went on GMB he said Harry liked Brexit and Trump (or something like that) which was obviously completely cringe and embarrassing to the BRF, and not even something they can just come out and refute. If he didn’t realise then that he had stepped in it…. He is either an idiot, or doesn’t give one hoot about his daughter.
Piers Morgan is a vile old gammon, and will rile up anyone (including himself) for clicks and controversy, but I was pretty disappointed in Susanah Reid for playing along with this nonsense.
If I were Meghan I’d not bother with him anyway, it will all get reported to the media if she does. You can tell he will continue to be a thorn in her side. Its sad too as they did seem to be close prior to all of this, but (to my eyes) he has brought all of this on himself. If he had been patient, and acted with decorum he would still have a relationship with this daughter.
Do British people not understand that you just have to ignore this dumbass? Like….what the hell are they so worried about?
Most of us are ignoring him!! It’s bloody Piers Morgan and ITV who keep interviewing the moron. I’m not watching it. It’s a commercial TV station so the way to stop it is to find out who is advertising during Morgan’s hours and complain to them.
I don’t think the Palace etc are that annoyed, I can’t see people holding TQ responsible for not arranging a reconciliation. I refuse to watch the interviews, but most of the press think he’s an idiot.
Much like herpes, this guy just keeps showing up despite the fact that no one wants him to.
TM doesn’t care about his daughter…he wants to live th high life in th royal fold…but he’s f….d up big time. They just need to continue to ignore him.
The only thing to do is ignore him.because any action otherwise will just continue to fuel the nonsense.
if he really wanted to be close to her he would’ve contacted her in private. this is a circus. poor woman with a father like that.
I would think she’d have a really good legal case for stalking and harassment at this point. I wonder if she’d ever be allowed to sue him and his gene pool for it…