THOMAS' TIRADE ‘This the girl is not I raised'

ON LIVE TV, MEGHAN’S DAD ISSUES HER AN ULTIMATUM

If Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, hoped to escape the media spotlight in the UK, her father certainly seems to have other ideas, once again using the press in a desperate bid to reach out to his daughter.

Just days after a bombshell TV documentary aired in which Thomas Markle accused his daughter of “cheapening” the royal family, the beleaguered dad has hit out again, appearing in a second documentary, and he’s now saying he will give an interview every 30 days until his daughter or son-in-law call him.

Last week TVNZ aired Thomas Markle: My Story, in which Meghan’s estranged father spoke of his sadness that the pair have not spoken since before her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry. He says he desperately wanted to be at the wedding but was advised against flying by his doctors after emergency surgery following a heart attack in the days leading up to the nuptials.

In the documentary, he said their relationship was beyond repair. “I can’t see her reaching out to me, especially now, and in light of what I’m saying now she probably won’t – or Harry for that matter.”

He also hit out at their decision to step away from the royal family, a move he described as embarrassing.

“This is not the girl I raised,” he said. “This is one of the greatest long-living institutions ever. They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, making it shabby... They shouldn’t be doing this.

“It’s disappointing because she actually got every girl’s dream. Every young girl wants to become a princess and she got that and now she’s tossing that away... It looks like she’s tossing that away for money.”