Meghan Markle is blaming her doomed relationship with her father on the shoulders of the British tabloids.
Lawyers for the former Royal Duchess of Sussex said that she and her father Thomas Markle “had a very close father / daughter relationship throughout their childhood and remained close until he was attacked three years ago by tabloid UK media intruders” , according to court documents obtained by The Guardian.
Markle is suing the Mail on Sunday for publishing a handwritten letter he sent to his father.
Markle’s attorneys claim that she provided her father with “substantial” financial support between 2014-18 with funds he received from the television show “Suits”, but was stopped after their relationship broke up shortly before his wedding to Prince Harry.
Meghan and Harry were furious when it was revealed that Thomas Markle had secretly collaborated with a British paparazzo to organize lucrative photos of himself preparing for his wedding. Thomas eventually skipped his daughter’s royal wedding, insisting that it was due to a “massive heart attack” that doctors warned he could kill him if he flew to London, and then shared a letter he wrote to the Daily Mail about the pain he suffered. did not show up. caused it. Since then, he has monetized his daughters’ fame by appearing in a Channel 5 documentary, “Thomas Markle: My Story,” as he shares intimate photos of the childhood duchess and happily admits he was paid for the interview because Meghan, Harry and royalty “must” “him.
“I’m in my senior year, it’s time to take care of dad,” she said in a message to her separated daughter at the time.
Markle’s friends claim that Mail on Sunday is “abusing” the British court system by forcing her to reveal personal information and then use that information to generate headlines.
“We believe that the Post is no longer using the litigation process for its defense and is obsessed with trying to cause more harm by generating headlines,” a source told The Guardian. “They are focused on prolonging this process and are abusing the judicial process to use irrelevant personal details for ‘exclusives’ before the trial in order to hide their illegal actions and distract themselves from the issue at the center of this case.”
Lawyers for The Mail on Sunday recently asked Markle to “provide evidence that she had provided financial support to her father, implying that she had not repaid a student loan her father had taken to support her college education,” according to The Guardian.
Markle’s attorneys state that he had no idea that a loan had not been repaid and that the financial relationship went both ways, saying: “[Meghan] He always held full-time jobs during auditions, both as a professional calligrapher and working in a restaurant. [Her] father gave occasional financial support to [her]as well as she provided reciprocal financial support once she started earning. “
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