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Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas, is in intensive care seriously ill.

(452 Posts)
FriedGreenTomatoes2 Wed 03-Dec-25 19:38:08

Sad to read of this just now.
I do wonder how Meghan will respond. I suppose it’s a case of too little too late now.

Anniebach Thu 11-Dec-25 18:04:32

Can it be that TM recalling his daughters use of the media thought it the best option?

eazybee Thu 11-Dec-25 18:01:23

People with enough money can arrange anything.

Casdon Thu 11-Dec-25 17:48:20

How do you envisage it being secret eazybee? The press are at her father’s bedside. I would not go if I were her in those circumstances.

eazybee Thu 11-Dec-25 17:12:05

Meghan is in the enviable position of being able to charter a private plane and arrive in the Philippines secretly, and I hope she has already done so.
Nice if Harry and the children accompanied her.
No need to tell anyone else.

Anniebach Thu 11-Dec-25 14:56:13

Yes it is T.M choice to involve the DM, as it was for Megan to give a TV interview to Oprah , the tv interview in S.A. etc

MartavTaurus Thu 11-Dec-25 14:50:32

I've no idea about the timings of sent emails, phone calls, letters etc. though I'm pleased to hear the "reaching out" might have now been successful.

What I'm saying is that the media are coming out with as much codswallop bollocks as they can possibly find just to draw people in, as is obvious from this thread.
I'm no detective, but all Meghan had to do was to immediately phone the hospital in the very town her dad lives in and the answer would have been instant. All the reports of "phoning round Philippine hospitals" doesn't ring true to me, but it makes for dramatic headlines.

I'm beyond liking or disliking Meghan these days.

Casdon Thu 11-Dec-25 14:49:10

It would be better for his relationship with his daughter if he did not have a Daily Mail reporter at his bedside Anniebach. It’s his choice, leg amputation or not, to do that.

Anniebach Thu 11-Dec-25 14:20:29

A 81 year old man has a limb amputated , he needs to get his act together surely!

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 14:07:07

The hospital are obliged to hand any personal letters directly to TM now she knows where he is. He knows her home address- did before- and so TM can send letters directly to her if he dislikes emails.

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 14:05:04

Exactly Casdon. She's on a hiding to nothing against DM shameless position and reporting. She can only continue to do as she's doing, i.e. continue to communicate privately.

Casdon Thu 11-Dec-25 13:44:58

The Daily Mail apparently have a reporter posted by his bed, so there has never been any possibility of Meghan making contact privately.

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 13:39:07

I get many posters dislike M and I am not a particular fan either . I guess thats why some posters speculate against M - pro TM.

I stick with my view therefore- best all round that they communicate away from spokespeople and media if they choose to do so...

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 13:34:40

MartavTaurus12.42 "Megan rang round Philippine hospitals to locate which hospital TM is in and managed to get her letter to her father. Bollocks! I could have given her the address and phone number in 5 minutes. It was on his hospital gown, it's a diabetes centre too. No need to phone round anywhere"

Another poster posted a sky news link yesterday reporting M had called round hospitals to get TM location. She had previously sent him an email after the DM reported that he no longer uses his email account so had not read her email. SkyNews reported M had contacted DM to ask TM's location but DM didn't respond. If you think that's also B***** I guess Sky news is reporting untruths.

I just looked again at DM front page Sunday 7 December-- you're right UCMed hospital logo clearly printed on TM's gown. Not sure what time M might have seen this photo? On the balance of probability AFTER she located him by ringing round hospitals? Sky news might know the timing- or more accurately M herself.

At the stage M did have TM's hospital location she wrote TM a letter because DM had contacted her spokesperson to say he had not read the email she sent. M no doubt posted her letter to TM from California to the Philippines hospital. Not sure how long the postal service from USA to Philippines takes? I understand it has now arrived....

Lathyrus3 Thu 11-Dec-25 12:49:23

I guess because they have had no way of getting in touch for some time,

Phone, email and postal vetting service by staff. That’s how the rich and famous live.

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 12:46:19

Why didn't her siblings tell M the hospital location in Philippines, before his surgery, or TM himself?

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 12:44:03

Neither M or TM needs a spokesperson or the media or to have experience of the media to write to each other directly with each other, when they know each other's location- should they so wish.

Smileless2012 Thu 11-Dec-25 12:43:36

Why didn't she ask one of her siblings?

MartavTaurus Thu 11-Dec-25 12:42:41

Megan rang round Philippine hospitals to locate which hospital TM is in and managed to get her letter to her father.
Bollocks! I could have given her the address and phone number in 5 minutes. It was on his hospital gown, it's a diabetes centre too.
No need to phone round anywhere

Lathyrus3 Thu 11-Dec-25 12:40:19

LemonJam

Megan rang round Philippine hospitals to locate which hospital TM is in and managed to get her letter to her father.

TM has had Meghan's address throughout to send a letter to her but for his own reasons chose not to and contacted DM reporter instead.

Neither of them needs a spokesperson to write to each other if they both know where the other is located and if they choose to write to each other.

Of course if she’d been in contact with her father before ( even a yearly Christmas card) she wouldn’t have had to get her staff to ring round hospitals to locate him🙄

Anniebach Thu 11-Dec-25 12:31:33

The differences between a parent in his 80’s with no experience of the media and his daughter in her 40’s which much experience of the media, S.A. visit “not many asked if I was ok” to the media

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 12:19:10

Megan rang round Philippine hospitals to locate which hospital TM is in and managed to get her letter to her father.

TM has had Meghan's address throughout to send a letter to her but for his own reasons chose not to and contacted DM reporter instead.

Neither of them needs a spokesperson to write to each other if they both know where the other is located and if they choose to write to each other.

Anniebach Thu 11-Dec-25 11:50:06

Megan has a spokesperson, her father doesn’t

LemonJam Thu 11-Dec-25 11:17:27

Casdon- yes, contact has been made. Let's hope now TM has got the contact he wanted from his daughter that he now stops talking to the DM reporter. Let's also hope DM newspaper also now stops publishing and leaves TM to recover in his Philippine's hospital bed post surgery. After all it needs to prepare for it's imminent court case being sued for defamation...

Calendargirl Thu 11-Dec-25 07:11:27

Meghan shares the same birthday as the Queen Mother.

Obviously another example of ‘the stars aligning’ as Harry once said.

grin

Allira Wed 10-Dec-25 18:03:13

CariadAgain

MarieElla

Meghan wanted the Disney fairytale wedding.
For someone marrying in her mid thirties, she showed great imaturaty in many areas but the most in trying to airbrush her half siblings out.
They will never get over that one.
She should have invited them and toleratedthem for the day, simple as that!

I thought she married only a few years back?

If she's 50 now - by the look of it...then...

Yep...saw the school photos etc that prove she's older than she says she is (by 6-7 years by the look of it).

Meghan was born in 1981.
You can order a copy of her birth certificate if you wish!

Her parents hadn't met at the time you claim she was born.
The pair married on December 23, 1979