EXCLUSIVE: Meghan Markle will not speak to her father unless he reaches out to her in a ‘respectful manner’ and finally stops giving interviews, close friend says
- Meghan Markle has not contacted her father Thomas Markle Sr because he has spoken to the press more than he’s tried reaching out to her, a friend revealed
- ‘If Thomas truly wanted to speak with Meghan, he could easily have sent a letter to her mother and asked her to pass it along,’ a close source told DailyMail.com
- Thomas Sr, 74, and ex-wife Doria Ragland, 62, divorced when Meghan was six, but the two are believed to have remained in touch
- He was seen delivering flowers to his ex-wife on Mother’s Day, days before the royal wedding
- Thomas and Meghan have not spoken since the wedding in May, but he has since gone on to give a series of interviews speaking out about his daughter
Meghan Markle will not speak to her father Thomas until he makes contact in a ‘respectful manner’ and stops airing his grievances in public, DailyMail.com has learned.
The Duchess of Sussex, 37, has not spoken to Markle Sr since shortly after her wedding to Prince Harry in May when the royal, 33, allegedly berated the retiree for staging a series of fake photos with a Los Angeles-based paparazzi photographer.
Since then, the 74-year-old has gone on to give a series of interviews in which he claimed Meghan would be better off ‘if I was dead’ and said he had been cut off by Kensington Palace and has no way of contacting his youngest daughter.
But a close friend of the 37-year-old has now told DailyMail.com that Markle Sr does have a means of contacting Meghan – via her mother Doria Ragland, 62.
The couple, who divorced when their daughter was six, have remained in touch and, shortly before the royal wedding in May, Markle Sr was seen delivering pots of Mother’s Day flowers to his ex-wife’s home in Los Angeles, California.
A source close to Meghan Markle says Thomas Markle Sr has a greater chance of getting in touch with his estranged daughter by contacting her mother, Doria, 62
Meghan and her dad have been estranged since her wedding, but he has gone on to give a series of interviews, claiming he has been cut off by his daughter and has no way of contacting her
‘The only reason Meghan hasn’t spoken to her father yet is because she’s yet to hear from him in a respectful manner,’ the source told DailyMail.com.
‘Thomas is speaking to the press more than he’s reached out and spoken to his own daughter.’
The friend added: ‘Despite Thomas’s claim that he has no way to reach Meghan, he knows that her mother Doria is in touch with her and Thomas knows how to reach Doria.
‘If Thomas truly wanted to speak with Meghan, he could easily have sent a letter to her mother and asked her to pass it along.
‘Unfortunately that wouldn’t sell papers or fit into his fabricated and salacious narrative.’
The pair have a history of rifts, as DailyMail.com has previously revealed, with Markle Sr claiming the latest one began because Meghan asked him to cut off contact with her half-sister Samantha.
Kensington Palace has been approached for comment by DailyMail.com.
The new revelations come after Markle Sr gave another interview this past weekend to the Mail on Sunday in which he once again moaned about being unable to contact Meghan, claimed to have sent her two birthday cards, and admitted that he lied to Prince Harry about the paparazzi photos scandal.
Thomas Sr, 74, and Doria Ragland, 62, divorced when Meghan was six, but the two are believed to have remained in touch. He was photographed on Mother’s Day delivering potted plants to his ex-wife’s Los Angeles home, days before the royal wedding
He told the paper of the now-infamous pictures of him being measured for a suit: ‘I told him [Prince Harry] I was being measured for a new hoodie.’
Markle Sr also lashed out at the Prince for remonstrating with him over the photo scandal while he was allegedly lying in his hospital bed recovering from a heart attack in San Diego, and described the timing of the call as ‘rude’.
The septuagenarian then went on to speak of his hurt over not receiving a wedding invitation to frame and revealed that he was upset that Meghan had decided not to let him make a speech at her wedding.
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Markle Sr said: ‘I was going to recount the funny story about how she broke the news to me about dating Harry: ‘Daddy, I’ve met a man… Daddy, he’s English… Daddy, he’s a prince.’
‘I thought it was a cute story. Like any father I wanted to say a few words. I was going to thank the Royal Family for welcoming my beautiful daughter into their family. But it was a speech that I was never going to be allowed to give. That hurt.’
He also launched a defense of his decision to speak to the media and claimed his Mail on Sunday interview would be his last – although he went on to speak to a tabloid newspaper less than 24 hours later.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday night, he added: ‘I want to say good luck and God bless to my daughter. I don’t expect to see her or hear back from her — and that’s OK.
‘All I was doing was saying things I wanted to say. I just want to re-establish the relationship with my daughter.
‘I now want to go on vacation somewhere to try and get some peace.’
The latest round of interviews come just seven days after the 74-year-old spent nine hours with the Mail on Sunday, during which he admitted to a drug-taking past, said Princess Diana would have ‘loathed’ the way he is being treated and hit out at Prince Harry – saying: ‘I don’t care if Harry never speaks to me again, I’ll survive.’
The source accused Markle Sr of selling salacious interviews to the press, and claims he has spoken to the media more than he has tried to contact Meghan
Meghan’s half-sister Samantha, 53, has also turned on her and has given multiple interviews slamming the former actress over her treatment of their father – despite being estranged from the retiree himself
His outbursts in the press follow a series of statements made to gossip website TMZ during the period around the royal wedding in May, following the paparazzi photo scandal.
Although Markle Sr had been due to attend – and had his name printed in the program – he pulled out last minute after claiming to have suffered a heart attack.
Despite telling the Mail on Sunday that he spent the day in a San Diego hospital bed, Markle Sr actually watched the nuptials from a $31-a-night Airbnb in Baja Malibu – a scruffy residential compound close to his home in San Antonio del Mar.
He returned home on the Monday after the wedding and was pictured purchasing a creamy drink from Starbucks en route.
Since then, the retired Emmy winner has repeatedly spoken out about his daughter and has insisted that he will continue to do so until she contacts him.
He has also been pictured out and about in Los Angeles, where he was spotted purchasing a McDonalds meal on his birthday last month.
Despite his public protestations to the contrary, Markle Sr has been repeatedly pictured tucking into fast food – including McDonalds Happy Meals and KFC; the latter shortly after he revealed he had had a heart attack.
Although ex-wife Doria has remained silent about the Markle debacle currently engulfing the royal family, Meghan’s half-siblings have spoken out – with sister Samantha describing the Duchess’s treatment of her father as ‘inhumane’.
She told the Mirror newspaper on Monday: ‘There would be no just reason for her not to want him in her life, as he was good enough to use to make her everything she is.’
Samantha, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, later took to Twitter to lambaste her half-sister, describing her as ‘heartless, arrogant and inhumane’ in a series of late-night messages.
The 53-year-old was echoed by her brother Thomas Markle Jr, 51, of Grants Pass, Oregon, who also slammed the former actress over her treatment of their father – despite being estranged from the retiree himself.
He told the Mirror: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see how this has changed her and the devastation it has caused to my family.
‘Anyone who saw Meg when she was growing up knew her and my dad were inseparable. Now it looks as though they may never speak again.’
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