Now that we won’t be seeing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for weeks, media outlets have decided to run stories about “what Meghan should do about her terrible father.” I’ve said from the beginning that the British papers have no credibility regarding Thomas Markle: they’ve been in bed with him for months now, by purchasing the set-up photos of Thomas and then pretending they didn’t know the photos were set up, then repeatedly paying him for obviously coached interviews and then acting like it’s the worst thing in the world that… he accepted payment for the interviews. It’s enough. And maybe this month-long holiday will be a chance for the royal family to all get on the same page about how they deal with the Markles. That’s what sources tell Entertainment Tonight:
Meghan is still upset with her dad: “She has not spoken to her father in more than 10 weeks since her wedding and is still hurt by her father, who has both staged the photos and continues to give paid interviews,” the source says. “The Palace is at a loss of what to do and is re-evaluating options, including a more aggressive strategy to stem the embarrassment caused by Meghan’s dad, half-sister and half-brother.”
Meghan is completely in the royal fold: “Meghan has established a particularly warm relationship with her father-in-law and Prince Charles adores his new daughter-in-law,” the source says of Harry’s father. “He pulled out all the stops at Harry and Meghan’s wedding and Meghan was grateful to him for showing such generosity and support when her father pulled out of the wedding last minute.”
She’s going to Balmoral, and she might shoot stuff: “Meghan’s looking forward to spending time in the Scottish Highlands. [Prince] William, Kate [Middleton] and the kids [Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis] are also due to visit the Queen for their annual visit to her summer home. The vacation is filled with barbecues, hiking, and shooting, although it is unclear if Meghan will learn the sport that Kate has picked up from various visits.”
Samantha Grant on Meghan: “I speak to [Thomas Markle] every day and it’s sad but, no, they have not contacted him… There is no meeting planned, that is PR spin. The PR machines can stop trying to make out she’s making an effort — she is not. This is a heartbreaking time for him and I’m very sad watching my sister ignore him.”
“The Palace is at a loss of what to do and is re-evaluating options, including a more aggressive strategy to stem the embarrassment caused by Meghan’s dad, half-sister and half-brother.” The half-brother is a problem, make no mistake, but Ground Zero of Markle Shenanigans is Thomas and Samantha. Those two are the toxic twins, birds of a feather. She’s the abusive a–hole apple who didn’t fall from the toxic tree. I hope someone in one of the palace communications offices comes up with a better plan than “we’ll just ignore them and allow the public to see how toxic and awful they are.” Because that’s not working. The media is playing by a different set of rules.
Photos and screencaps courtesy of WENN, ITV, The Sun.
This article’s got nothing to it — just fluff that we already knew.
I think it’d be a big mistake for the Firm to engage with the Markles in any way. You don’t negotiate with terrorists, even the emotional kind. They can spew all the venom they like, but the media WILL tire of them, because the public WILL tire of them. In the meantime, no reason for Meghan not to keep on living her best life. #teamtungsten
yeah, I’m not really sure what “aggressive strategy” would even work? The Markles can’t be paid off because they’ll always want more…I truly think they have no other option than to ignore them.
I hate this for her. I think about my dad, who isn’t perfect, but who would circle the wagons in an instant against any and all people who ever said a negative word about me, and whose top priorities are my mother, me, my son, and my husband. I’m so glad she at least has Doria, but this is awful.
It must be so frustrating for poor Meghan who didn’t really even want to completely cut off her dad, but did so when the palace was adamant that without any real inside information the media would eventually ignore them and they would go away. Unfortunately, the media just keeps trotting them out to give them a platform to tell the world how much they hate Meghan.
Its really, really sad and it makes me angry for her. Such narcissism. On the one hand, its not the media’s fault that her family is so eager to talk to people about her…. on the other its clear they don’t have any information so they really should just stop giving them a platform when they genuinely have nothing new to say. The first few times I was like “alright this was bound to happen…” but now its like beating a dead horse. They have NOTHING new to say, why is anyone still paying them for an interview?
I think eventually the interviews will stop (or die down.) Its only been 10 weeks since the wedding and Meghan is still the shiny new thing for the press.
Where did you get information from that the Palace was adamant, Meghan cut off her father?
I think that if the press stopped reporting on these vile relatives and stopped paying them, then they would disappear as they should. The press is fueling this drama and TM and SM love it!!!
I think she cut off her Dad because he was being a jerk, I don’t think the palace had anything to do with it. Portraying it as the palace made her negates the fact that h e is an untrustworthy, narcissistic jerk of a parent.
The media is going to keep talking to them as long as people are flocking to watch and read them. There’s still a ton of interest there, just look at how many comments posts about the Markles interviews get here. It doesn’t matter to the media whether you’re hate watching/reading or not, it’s all views.
People can’t have it both ways. If you think the media should be ignoring them, then you should be ignoring the media coverage.
Continue to ignore and not comment on anything Meghan’s toxic father and siblings have to say or do. Eventually people will stop caring about them and they will turn on each other. They are a bunch of vipers
+1
x 1,000,000!
I completely agree. Nothing positive is gained from engaging with them.
YES. I no longer click on any published interview with Thomas or Samantha Markle. If enough people will do that — and I’ll admit I still struggle with the temptation to open those articles because I’m a nosy beeotch and passing by them is like not looking when you pass an accident on the road — but if enough of us refuse to click on those sh*tty interviews with the Markle grifters, they will dry up and the Markles will go away. I’m a huge Meghan supporter, and it’s really all we can do for her.
I think interest is already dying some since it is the general consensus they are terrible people. This is a waiting game. It sucks but time can’t be rushed and this will take time and distance. Along with complete and total silence.
Ditto. Not easy but it’s nice to not have that slimy feeling after reading about The Buckingham Hillbillies
DailyFail had another dumb “rags to riches” story about Meg today. They are so desperate.
I’m absolutely not clicking on any of their stories, no matter what!
I know! I didn’t read the article, but there were references to “dingy flats”, that looked like nice apartment buildings to me.
Saw that article and ignored it as well. Spiteful little turds.
In the mean time, I’m desperately trying to figure out how to block The Daily Fail from showing up in my google search results to begin with…..no luck so far……any ideas would be very welcome!
I just don’t click on them anymore. The pay for play D listers and stupid reality TV stars is bottom feeder tabloid. The pap strolls and pap shots frolicking on the beach are tiresome. The commenters are garbage. The “journalism” is like a bunch of 6th graders writing a mean school paper. The racist sensationalism of odd crimes and the 45 cover stories…
I think you can go into your settings and change it. I think you can block sites.
Lol……..perfect description for the daily fail.
The problem is that DM provides the best and most comprehensive pictures on royal events.
I think ignoring him is the only thing the palace CAN do. And it is the best move. The press has its own agenda here, sure, but if there is NO contact between Meghan and her father, he wont have anything new to say and eventually these stories will dry up, bc interviews with TM whining about how Meghan wont call him will get old. It may not seem like it now, but it will happen. One phone call, one email, one meeting – and the whole thing resets. As long as Samantha and Thomas keep whining about how Meghan won’t contact them, they are essentially letting their clock run out.
I imagine in a year we wont be talking about the Markles really. Sure they’ll keep spewing their venom but people will tune them out.
@becks1 – I agree but I also think even if they fizzle out now for lack of new information, the rags will still trot them out for landmark events – anniversaries or if they choose to have children- or if they don’t – all that will set off a new round of fodder. I can’t imagine the humiliation for Meghan going to snooty functions with Harry’s horsey idle rich friends and thinking they’re laughing behind her back about all this. I wonder if a statement along the line of “until her family ceases these exploitative interviews there will be no contact” would help…?
A lot ofprojection on your part,right? That his friends are snooty or will laugh behind her back or that they are idle rich? Some rich, specially new rich are like that, but old money or class is always classy, from my experience.. Just as bad to make assumptions about the rich as the poor… From everything so far, they all seem to be going out of their way to welcome her..
I also think that a lot of those old money families have had their share of scandals, so they probably aren’t laughing at Meghan’s right now.
@indian – “old money or class is always classy” – that’s hilarious!
@becks1 – this is a good point re the skeletons in closets..
@indian – “old money or class is always classy” – that’s hilarious!
Hahahaha…Exactly, Redgirl! “Old Money” might be polite *to your face*, but rest assured, they will “talk amongst themselves” behind your back. I grew up with people like this, they can be vicious!
I doubt his friends have issues with Meghan. Rich doesn’t necessarily mean snobby or snooty. Upper middle class people act the same way if not more so since they think it makes them seem discerning and super high classy.
I bet all they say is-Dreadful business old boy. As if the Windsors aren’t scandalous or aristocrats behaving badly has never made the tabs. The best salacious British scandals are theirs. I am sure they gossip about it but it doesn’t mean it translates into looking down on Meghan. They love all that glamor actress stuff.
For those interested in a funny take on them they should read Julian Fellowes early 2000s book Snobs. It is insidery but also satirical.
“Old money is always classy”? LOLOLOL!!!!
“I doubt his friends have issues with Meghan.” HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
You don’t understand the aristos, do you? Not one bit. Yes, they may be polite to your face, but they mocked Kate and Pippa, who were British, went to the same schools that they did, and had money. Imagine what they say about an American who is divorced, did do some risque things in her career, and has this family?? I think they are probably burning up their phone lines in gossiping about all of this.
Not a reflection of Meghan – it is just that this is just too tempting for these useless snobs to let go without mockery.
Jan901067 – my point exactly! Hopefully for her the majority won’t care.
Another poster down-thread commented that the brother has been pretty quiet lately – I’d forgotten all about him – hopefully he has just skulked off as opposed to biding his time and jumping back in… ugh.
The scandals known and unknown produced by the House of Windsor will never be matched by anything the very daft and very greedy Markles try to make money off.
Thomas Jr. has been eerily quiet ever since the wedding and has mostly shut up. But i don’t know if he got sense knocked into him or if he is doing crap behind the scenes and/or waiting his turn.
Thomas Sr. and Samantha are the main instigators. I don’t think they will ever shut up.
Exactly. This is really par for the course with British tabloids. Much like Trump’s very specific base so too have the tabloids. They’re performing for their base, a narrow segment of British society, a very predictable scrip and eventually it’ll be time to move to the next stage. The best plan for the RF is to continue to ignore the Markles. TM has destroyed his relationship with his daughter. I suspect her affection for him is her only real weakness but she’s at a new phase of life and is likely ready to move on. Unless the Markles have juicy stories with corroborating evidence they have nothing of value. The British public like Meghan just fine.
The media are really the ones giving life to all of this nonsense because they make lots of money from it. If the media chooses to they could stop the pathetic Markle stories instantly.
If a pregnancy is ever announced, the ratchet Markles will get press attention again. They’ll ask him and VS.(vile sister), all kinds of stupid questions giving them an opportunity to pontificate and up t their enotional blackmail game. TM will look like Fred Sanford, clutching his chest and waiting for the big one.
I read somewhere, that Meghan is a vegetarian,
and therefore I doubt she’ll ”be shooting something”.
She’s not. She was making roast chicken when Harry proposed.
I think the vegetarian thing is based on a quote from Meghan about eating a certain way during the week and eating whatever she wants on the weekends.
Yeah I think she is an “animal lover” but not a strict vegetarian. From what I’ve read she limits her meat intake but still eats some meat (I feel like she avoids red meat, but maybe that’s just in my head from someone else.)
And obviously anything I’ve heard about her – beyond the roast chicken – is from a tabloid so clearly, it’s fact.
She isn’t – she has talked about “eating vegan” during the week to better control calories and her weight. Plus she is a big rescue-dog advocate so I think people often assume she is vegetarian because it kind of makes sense with the image she projects? For a long time I thought she was veg as well, I would be so disappointed if she took part in those horrid, wasteful and useless shoots.
Me too!
I would be too. Those slaughters are obscene. But shallow me loves the fashion and the whole fanfare but not the act of it. I love those hunting flasks and British hunting/campaign antiques and images of galloping around the country fill my head but the actual shooting I can’t take.
I think the skeet shoot as well (I don’t think it’s all hunting)
I think the palaces should continue to ignore the Markles, this is child’s play for them, Thomas and Vonnie will turn on one another sooner or later.
Dailycrap is running out of stories, they are showing pictures of where Meghan grew up calling it ghetto, compared to where she is living now, even their racist poster are calling them on it.
One thing is coming through, even when they’re bashing her, she always had some type of job from the age of thirteen.
It’s sad to say she was dealing with Markles drama all her life, the only difference now, it’s being played out on the world stage.
Her father sure has disappointed her, but the half-siblings it’s the norm for them.
Officially ignoring them is the only way to go – Meghan knows this as she has been estranged from him long before she got together with Harry. The only way to completely discredit them and make them media pariah’s is to get one of the big tabs to drop ALL the receipts on them – burning them so bad that no one will touch them as they are that toxic.
Daddy Dearest is playing with fire – Scammy and Jr learned their abusive behaviour from him. Scammy has been accused of physically abusing her partner and children, she’s clearly seen/experienced that behaviour from a parent and we can all see which one it was. Being a toxic narcissist who abused drugs makes for a very very bad combination.
I don’t believe that she was estranged from him, but she knew that he was a potential loose cannon and not to be trusted. I actually believe that she was with him and her mother for Thanksgiving in 2016.
I hope the palace does go for a more aggressive policy to save Meghan future embarrassment. Pay those useless people off and get a nda. I’m sure they will sign it for not too much money.
Maybe they would sign a NDA @DLC although I doubt it. But I’m pretty sure even if they did sign it, it would be violated. Then what? It would be an even worse spectacle if the RF sued Meghan’s relatives in the US and Mexico. And even if they did sue and win, so what? The pay-off money likely would have already been spent so they could not collect damages. And it would not be a criminal offense to violate an NDA so collecting money is the only remedy. The RF should stay out of it.
An NDA is only good if you can hold the other party accountable for violating it. There’s no way that Meghan, Harry and/or “the palace” are going to take the signer of an NDA to court for violating the terms of the agreement.
The Markles don’t want just money, they also want access to the Royal Family. They want the firm to “take care” of them. They want to be seen in public with Meghan and the RF.
Also, Thomas Sr is sure making it sound like he wants Meghan around him 24/7 so she can take care of him in his old age. It sure sounds like he wants to be the main man in her life and push Harry aside.
@ Kelsey
Exactly. It’s such bizarre behaviour. His hostility towards Harry is so bemusing as well……like a jilted lover lashing out at the home wrecker (Harry being the home wrecker, obviously)…lol
Strange times.
Can we stop this bullshit narrative that the Markle’s are embarrassing Meghan. They are embarrassing themselves. They are all adults. She is not responsible for their behavior in any way shape or form; and their behavior reflects badly on them and them alone. Honestly, I think Meghan is probably used to it and really doesn’t give two shits. She’s doing what she’s always done – living her life. Any adult with a brain who would apply some sort of guilt by association needs to stop.
As for strategy, the RF needs to play hardball with the press, not the Markle’s. It’s all very easy, deny the press access – that will get them in line real quick. Start calling the press out.
Without the press, the royals don’t exist. The press sells lots and lots of papers, even with no mention of the royals. Without being mentioned at all……?? People will lose interest in the royals, who really are just a bunch of lazy scroungers. They still exist cause the press pays attention to them.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
I don’t see how this can be fixed at no cost to Meghan. My clinical brain thinks about exposing the Markles, pulling such dirt on them not one media outlet would dare go near them again. Unfortunately, the media is using the Markles to diminish Meghan. This is personal, it’s not about profit and circulation.
EDIT: Balmoral sounds nice. I love BBQs, hiking and nature. But I’d never compromise myself and learn to shoot.
You can shoot without killing things. Target shooting is hella fun, and skeet shooting even more so. Don’t knock it until you try it as they say.
Yeah, they shoot living things though.
The Markles are too stupid to realise that the media they are presently courting will eventually turn and destroy them. The Palace should do nothing.
One of these mags really need to ask Samantha why Meghan is so terrible and she’s not, after losing custody of all three of her children. Her own mother doesn’t even speak to her anymore, but Meghan’s pure evil, for cutting off her abusive a**hole of a father.
Absolutely not the best strategy is: DO NOT ENGAGE! If you ENGAGE you a) risk getting into a war of words with them and b) teach them that their scrappy behavior will eventually get them the attention they so desperately crave c) you give them control over her. NEVER cave to emotional blackmail ,NEVER.
Yep – DO NOT feed the trolls period.
Precisely. If you ignore the first nineteen phone calls and then answer the 20th, you have taught your abuser that it will take 20 calls to get the desired capitulation.
Once you cut off an abuser, it’s done. Anything other is a reset and a brand new start of a fresh new cycle of the same old garbage and abuse.
The queen has already used the ‘car crash’ option once before……..
When Samantha runs her mouth, she gets media coverage but in the bigger scheme of things, she’s a non-mothableeping factor.
Thomas is relevant but I don’t think that he is considered a threat to the monarchy. The BRF employ numerous people to handle their media relations so of course there are people who are monitoring Thomas and are handling inquiries.
I think that the BRF approach has been to ignore Thomas for the most part but I do think the story where “a friend of Meghan’s” weighed in and said that Thomas faked his heart attack was the BRF playing tough, and Thomas was quiet for a few days but then he came back swinging and played the Diana card. Thomas “going there” was probably enough to show that Thomas can and will fight dirtier and play the victim to boot, so the BRF and their staffers best option is to ignore him.
While I believe that Harry and the BRF should put him on ignore, as I mentioned yesterday Meghan should follow her heart when it comes to her father. Meghan would be totally justified if she chose to have nothing to do with her father, but if she wants to re-connect with her father then I am not opposed to that either assuming she takes sensible precautions.
I agree with 98% of what you’ve so eloquently said, except the “follow her heart” part of it.
That would be like the abused woman, constantly finding new reasons to forgive her abuser and then following her heart back to the source of the abuse.
Its over for Thomas. Now that he’s shown himself for the abuser that he is, he should be cut off forever. (or at the very least, for the next decade….let him take that time to contemplate his strange, abusive, bordering on incestuous behavior).
Agreed. No contact ever again.
When is Meghan going to drop her “anonymous sources” friends? They have even leaked a conversation with her in which she says she is afraid of having her conversations leaked to tabloids.
The holy irony.
I don’t believe these “anonymous friends” exist. It’s all generalizations.
I love how the media just overlooks how all of Samantha’s immediate family–her mother, her kids–don’t talk to her and are estranged from her. I think the only person she is in contact from her immediate family is her father. The half-brother was speaking up for a bit but it seems he’s been quiet for awhile. Seriously if we had to apply Fake News to anyone, it would be the Markles (excluding Meghan).
There was an article in the fail about the allegations that scammy physically abused her youngest child and that was why she went to live with her grandmother – Scammy was being investigated by the authorities about it. It had quotes from her mother and other children about how insane and evil she was. There was a similar story about Thomas Jr. They learned that behaviour from someone in the close family – Evil Papa Smurf.
Omg that’s horrible! I knew she was an awful person and I could see her being verbally abusive but I had no idea she had been investigated for being physically abusive. That changes things a lot for me.
I’m starting to think Papa Markle may have been a fan of physical discipline. I can’t imagine why else he’d make the comment about Harry not laying a hand on her.
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@ Amelie
With regards to Thomas Markle Jnr, if I remember correctly, his last major statement was the horrific open letter he published to Harry.
I reckon he was paid heavily for that letter – he was probably paid more the nastier he made the letter. My guess is, he got enough to buy him some time away, somewhere, where he’ll spend the next few months (years if we’re lucky) drinking/sniffing/gambling his haul away.
Maybe there is some truth to some of the unflattering leaked stories regarding MM. The whole thing is becoming very weird. I must say she’s handling it with aplomb when in the public eye.
Is it not very clear that a section of the British media are using Thomas and Samantha to get back at Harry via Meghan? They won’t stop. The only way is for Meghan to keep ignoring them. Thomas has nothing to lose even if the royal family digs up dirt on him. They tried it when the story of the fake heart attack was published, but what did he do? His attack became more vicious.
@Pamm – I think some of what you say is true, this has been discussed here. But it must be said that (IMHO, anyway), that they’re also just milking a good story for all it’s worth for the clicks and the traffic. Sheer self-interest and greed on their parts, standard operating procedure. A mixture of both, I imagine. Ignoring him seems like the best option, but as I mentioned once before here, he has threatened to “unload” on them, and there is always the possibility he has some history that Meghan would much prefer not to be made public – in other words, blackmail. It’s an ugly word but I thought from the beginning that might be his ace in the hole, so to speak, to wangle some sort of financial settlement from them. I’ve always thought this a possibility and a danger. If you have to handle blackmailers, you have to do so very carefully as if they were cobras or something.
Violet, I concur. I had said here before that TM has no reputation to lose and if the royal family goes nuclear and digs dirt on him, he will simply spill secrets about meghan that she would prefer no one knows. Every single human on earth has secrets so it’s no biggie. TM is very capable of that. He has no shame.
She should simply ignore him or look for practical ways to resolve this issue.
Meghan needs to keep living her best life and cut ties totally with her dad and her a**hole half-sibling, they are both ghouls.
To give them an inch, they would take a mile.
Deep freeze those bishes, Meghan! Oh, and every single time you are in public or at an engagement, smile that 1000 watt smile, look at Harry like he’s the cat’s meow and project everything is just better than you imagined–so that you know those bitter Bettys are just stewing in their own rancid juices, killing themselves with jealousy and envy. Mmmmm, bitter Betty cocktails…Delicious!
The tabs and media are exacerbating Meghan’s problem by keeping this story going of what she might do and what she might not do and what the Palace might do and what it might not do, and the truth is, they don’t know a derned thing, because no one in the know would talk to them. They pretend to be sympathetic but by keeping the story alive, they really – aren’t – helping – her.
What if they gave a Thomas Markle and nobody came?!
I suppose that’s too much to hope for.
I have a feeling MM’s father had no intention of attending the wedding. There were no last minute (health) problems preventing him from attending the wedding. Thomas Markle invited the press to photograph him in MEX months before the wedding. Harry never met Thomas Markle. That alone speaks volumes.
ITA – I think that’s part of what is driving his abusive behaviour, the fact that he has never even met Harry or even had any F2F contact with Meghan during the dating period. She spent most of her time in Toronto and from what I recall she estranged from him – she probably called him periodically but kept her distance.
I really feel for Meghan. Her father and half-sister have gone way beyond the usual relatives coming out of the woodwork to cash in on the BRF connections and made it to the middle of abusive behavior. Sadly, sometimes it is necessary to cut people, even parents, out of your life. I had to do the same thing with my mother: she had been emotionally and verbally abusive to me for most of my life (yes, there were some good times and good memories, but I never knew what would set her off). Although it meant not having a relationship with my grandmother (I couldn’t even go to her funeral for fear of my mother going off) and my aunts/uncles/cousins, I finally had to do it. TG for social media so I can keep with that side of the family, but I haven’t interacted with my mother for nearly 20 years. Luckily, Meghan seems to have a good support system with her mother, friends (aside from the anonymous sources) and the BRF.
Bravo to you for having the strength. It isn’t easy but I did it too with relatives and I am so much better off for it.
I would freeze that mf for good. All of them. It seems that she hadn’t had a close relationship with her father even before so it is a long history there. Him doing those interviews and saying those awful things is the bottom line in my opinion. LEt them go for good is my advice (not that she asked). Funny thing IF I was in her place I would LOVE to call and scream some bad words to them just to let it out. Sure it would end on the front page the next morning but oh so liberating. Maybe that’s why all the princes I have meet run away from me lol
Samantha, is that you?
I agree it’s a new era of press, even in the 90s during peak Diana fervor, the press would not have run story after story by such uncredible sources (at least that I can remember). I don’t know if the RF can do much about this though, the man is not British. Can they get a gag order or sue for slander across jurisdictions?
How much longer are the UK journalists going to be willing to pay the Markle’s to just say “she hasn’t contacted us and she’s a horrible human being”? They have nothing else to say anymore. They have no access to her so it’s not like they have any relevant news to spill. I think Meghan should just keep on ignoring them. Eventually the interest will dry up.
She looks like her dad….same nose.
The BRF of which Meghan is now a part cant engage with the Markles. They cannot dignify anything they say with a response. The British public will respect Meghan if she continues to perform her royal duties with Harry and they embrace the special causes close to their hearts – they need to look at the bigger picture and the huge amount of good work they can do ….the poisonous Markles will fade into the distance, like a bad episode of the Jeremy Kyle show.