[user104658]

Originally Posted by Liam-

I think people need to wrap their heads around the fact that people don’t have an automatic right of access to their grandchildren, if you’re not in contact with your children for whatever reason (he’s not in contact with his daughter because he’s a money hungry fame *****, who can’t keep his mouth shut about her) if they keep their kids away from you, that’s their decision, if you can’t treat your children properly, you shouldn’t expect to have a relationship with their kids

I think perhaps seeing a lonely, dying man begging for scraps of contact with his family due entirely to his own past behaviours and actions hits a little too close on the anxieties of some people maybe. Easier to make it "not his fault", the evil daughter's wrongdoing, take some of the edges off those hooks, make it a bit easier to wriggle off of them.

[Glenn.]

You’d think considering how much she craves media attention she’d answer back.

[Glenn.]

I’m glad to see the support for Meghan on Twitter about this. Most of what I’ve seen is everyone calling her father out for yet another cash in.

If he was my father I’d be mortified. What an embarrassment

[Glenn.]

I mean he’s going the right way to rebuild his relationship with his daughter and grandchildren

Parasite

[bots]

i definitely see the enemy of my enemy is my friend going on here, because under any other circumstance the father would universally be called a knob

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i definitely see the enemy of my enemy is my friend going on here, because under any other circumstance the father would universally be called a knob

Absolutely agree

[jet]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i definitely see the enemy of my enemy is my friend going on here, because under any other circumstance the father would universally be called a knob

Literally nobody has said Mr.Markle is right to give interviews. I have clearly said he was unwise to do so, but I get his frustration at the complete cutting off and especially when he was seriously ill and not even a ‘get well soon’ card came his way.
There are people here who never utter a bad word about Meghan giving interviews about family relationships in which she bad -mouths them and tells a pack of lies - and makes many millions doing it.
The hypocrisy and cold - heartedness is staggering.

[bots]

Originally Posted by jet

Literally nobody has said Mr.Markle is right to give interviews. I have clearly said he was unwise to do so, but I get his frustration at the complete cutting off and especially when he was seriously ill and not even a ‘get well soon’ card came his way.
There are people here who never utter a bad word about Meghan giving interviews about family relationships in which she bad -mouths them and tells a pack of lies - and makes many millions doing it.
The hypocrisy and cold - heartedness is staggering.

this is about her Dad airing dirty laundry in public. I dont think there will be a kid in the land that wouldn't be absolutely mortified if a parent did that to them.


This isn't about, well so and so did something in the past. This is now, today .... and the guy is a knob

[Swan]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

this is about her Dad airing dirty laundry in public. I dont think there will be a kid in the land that wouldn't be absolutely mortified if a parent did that to them.


This isn't about, well so and so did something in the past. This is now, today .... and the guy is a knob

Just wanna jump in and say that this is exactly the same thing Harry and Meghan did with Harry's family. They even went on a book tour with it. And on the biggest tv host in US history.

So for those of you rightly slating her father here, same could be said for her and Harry slating his lot in a very public manner, no?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Swan

Just wanna jump in and say that this is exactly the same thing Harry and Meghan did with Harry's family. They even went on a book tour with it. And on the biggest tv host in US history.

So for those of you rightly slating her father here, same could be said for her and Harry slating his lot in a very public manner, no?

As I said before - the difference is in the expectation afterwards. He can do what he wants, they can do what they want, we can all have our opinions on those things.

The issue is that Mr Markle then gets weepy about them not wanting him in their lives.

In fact - in a hilarious and yet entirely predictable irony - the same people who think it's "terrible" that Meghan won't talk to her dad get practically furious at the idea that Harry and his family might ever build bridges and insist that he should be "left out in the cold" .

Again on that I'd just say, I have no feelings one way or the other on whether Charles, William and co should be willing to have a relationship with Harry and his family other than to say that that is entirely up to them.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Swan

Just wanna jump in and say that this is exactly the same thing Harry and Meghan did with Harry's family. They even went on a book tour with it. And on the biggest tv host in US history.

So for those of you rightly slating her father here, same could be said for her and Harry slating his lot in a very public manner, no?

Great point

My take on it is he does not have any way to contact her and this is his way of doing so

They told us to be kind....Im not sure her father has committed any majorly henious crime against them when they cut him off, after all he was due to walk her down the aisle,they gave him zero protection or coaching on how to deal with the paps, and I blame the palace for that as well, also the fact that the first time he would have met Harry would have been at their wedding is pretty odd even for the Royals

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Swan

Just wanna jump in and say that this is exactly the same thing Harry and Meghan did with Harry's family. They even went on a book tour with it. And on the biggest tv host in US history.

So for those of you rightly slating her father here, same could be said for her and Harry slating his lot in a very public manner, no?

It's a fair point with Harry as it's his family.

The same can be said for William too when he got one of his servants to spread negative gossip about H&M.

Common sense dictates that if you want a good relationship with your family, don't badmouth them to the scummy Media.

[jet]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

this is about her Dad airing dirty laundry in public. I dont think there will be a kid in the land that wouldn't be absolutely mortified if a parent did that to them.


This isn't about, well so and so did something in the past. This is now, today .... and the guy is a knob

If Meghan found it so mortifying, she could have stopped it long ago by going to see him and talking things through. Bringing baby Archie to see him would have been a great ice breaker. But it is obviously working to her advantage, so why would she?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by jet

If Meghan found it so mortifying, she could have stopped it long ago by going to see him and talking things through. Bringing baby Archie to see him would have been a great ice breaker. But it is obviously working to her advantage, so why would she?

"If you come and see me I'll stop going to the press" is 100% a reason to not go and see him. It's manipulation to the point of basically being blackmail. And if you let someone extort you once, they'll use the same tactic again, guaranteed.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by jet

If Meghan found it so mortifying, she could have stopped it long ago by going to see him and talking things through. Bringing baby Archie to see him would have been a great ice breaker. But it is obviously working to her advantage, so why would she?

You do realise that you're saying that Meghan should make the effort to fix her relationship with her Father, when it's the Father that's badmouthing her right? Why shouldn't he be trying to make amends with Meghan?

Or how about if they don't like each other just leave them both to it?

[arista]

He is aged, 79


Heart attack last year

[arista]

In Germany

[arista]

Last Year.


[Meghan Markle's father Thomas Snr
(middle with son Tom Jr,right, and daughter Samantha, left),
who stayed up all night to watch the ceremony
on TV at his home in Rosarito, Mexico]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ciliation.html

[Oliver_W]

Does Meghan even lie?

I know she exaggerates etc, but she's hardly Jack Monroe.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Does Meghan even lie?

I know she exaggerates etc, but she's hardly Jack Monroe.

she barefaced lied in court

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Cherie

she barefaced lied in court

Fine. I didn't know that

[AnnieK]

If you met my Nan before she passed, you would think she was the nicest, sweetest old lady ever. However, as I sat with my dying mum she did something that I found unforgivable. I never told anyone (not even my Dad or brother) what it was, but I never spoke to her again. She passed without me seeing her after my mum's funeral, everyone thought I was an awful human but I couldn't forgive what she did. Now, prior to this incident I had a great relationship so if I had had a blog, I could have written a gushing post about her. As has been said, we don't know what has been said but the fact maghan wrote a blog piece years ago doesnt mean the relationship didn't fracture afterwards. Family relationships can be toxic, but should remain behind closed doors......that goes for Thomas and Harry and Meghan

[Cherie]

There is an assumption that he is playing with the full deck as well, I dont think that is the case

[jet]

Originally Posted by Cherie

There is an assumption that he is playing with the full deck as well, I dont think that is the case

I agree. 2 heart attacks, a stroke, 80 next year. Daughter cut him off. Grandkids he has never met but yearns to see.

It's a lot.

[jet]

Well, he obviously hadn’t done anything awful enough for her to not want to speak to him again and cut him off at the time of her wedding - as she was speaking to him and he was to walk her down the aisle.

When asked in the Netflix docu about the estrangement from her father, she said it was all to do with the pap photos.