Why Thomas Markle did not give up hope of a reconciliation with Meghan Markle

Regarding the statements, it was definitely benign. All the more when we consider that this came from Thomas Markle.

When Meghan Marklefather sends his official congratulations for the arrival of his first child with her husband on May 6 Prince Harryhis sixth grandkid, his words were utterly devoid of the sarcasm and shade he often used in speaking of the royal family.

"I am delighted to learn that the mother and the child are doing well," he said. The sun in a report. "I am proud that my new grandson was born into the British royal family and I am sure he will grow to serve the crown and the British people with grace, dignity and honor.

His last remarks on the subject: "May God bless the child, I wish him health and happiness, as well as my congratulations to my lovely daughter Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry, as well as God save the Queen."

Speaking of the monarch as an "old dusty crown", this was not the case.

After attempting to search and beg her 37-year-old daughter to remedy the growing divide that separates them since she missed her wishes from May 2018, the former director of the organization, the lighting, age 74, launches a Hail Mary: play well.

For as many insults as he has thrown into the back of his little girl since she, as he claims, made him a ghost after his first interviews with the press, he never imagined that he would not be aware of this crucial moment.

"We have talked a lot about this in recent weeks and it's actually a very scary topic for him" Thomas Markle, Jr. shared with The sun the slow realization of his father that he can not have the chance to court with a Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. "If he thought that he would never be part of his baby's life if it would be horrible for him, it would really hurt him a lot." That's one of his biggest fears and he can not understand it if it continues like this, he hopes that she will open her arms and unite and that he obviously wants to be part of her baby's life. "

Although Thomas's public statements were purely positive, making no mention of his desperate desire to meet his grandson, his children are here to play the bad cop.

Thomas, Jr. seems to think that the arrival of Master Archie (as we will call the untitled newborn) should serve to wake Meghan about the importance of parents. This, of course, ignoring the fact that she stays exceptionally tight with Mom Doria Ragland, the only person of his offspring who did not talk about her despite her being courted Oprah Winfrey everybody.

this seems to be Samantha Markletakes as well. The Duchess' half sister, known for labeling her as "incredibly rude" and related to Cruella de Vil, first offered her wishes via: DailyMailTV, saying, "The family is family." What I think is amazing is that it's a great historic moment and, even though adults have a lot of water under the bridge, I'd really like to let everyone come closer. "

But soon after, she found the message.

story The mirror she rang a desperate Thomas to inform him of new photos of the meeting with Archie Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Alongside Meghan, Harry and Ragland, she says, "It's sad, it should have been involved, being excluded, it's like a dagger in the heart."

Worse, she continued, is little Archie, whom she determined that she bears the signature "Markle nose", not to be missed by "not getting to know a creative person and magnetic".

And Meghan is not the only one she's attacked. Samantha thinks that the yoga instructor and the social worker should have done more to encourage the father-daughter meeting with Ragland at the couple's tribune in Windsor. "She could have said, take your father here. But unfortunately, there seemed to be a lack of effort, "she said." I think everyone was hoping that Doria and Meghan would have an epiphany, but I do not know if that will ever happen. "(Samantha , of course, does not need an invitation, informing the newspaper that she will send a christening gift: a photo album containing pictures of the Markle family: "There is a link and we exist. ")

Despite some signs of an imminent thaw, Thomas does not seem ready to give up completely for the moment. Not later than in December, he told ITV Hello Brittany"I certainly hope that everything will be fine and that they will produce a beautiful baby and that I will be able to see a little Meghan or a little Harry.This would be very nice.I can not wait for that to happen … I'm optimistic, I think that should happen, I think she'll be a good mother, and I think maybe things will soften a bit and we'll connect again. "

This, of course, was pre-Lettergate, the chapter of the father-daughter saga that might well separate them for good. It all started when five of the closest companions of the former actress, tired of seeing strangers intimidate their friend for the sport, defended him People magazine cover story in February.

Meghan's friends shared their truth, including a great revelation. Three months after the start of their quarrel, the one that began with Thomas' regrettable decision to try to improve his public image by associating with a paparazzo and went quickly spiraling . "She's like, 'Dad, I'm heartbroken, I love you … I've got a father … Stop victimizing me through the media so we can fix our relationship." "said a close friend to the magazine. "Because every time his team has to come and see her and check something [he has said]it's an arrow in the heart. "

In response, the friend continued: "He writes to her a very long letter and closes it by asking for a photo shoot with her.And she says to herself:" It's the opposite of what I I am telling you that I do not want to communicate through the media and that you ask me to communicate through the media.Have you heard anything that I said? C C & # 39; is almost as if the ships were passing. "

Sensing that his daughter's friends were attacking him and had been expressly authorized to do so, Thomas responded by … publishing the exact note mentioned, believing that it would justify it in one way or in any other way. ;another.

"The letter was presented in a way that vilified me and was not true," he explained to the Daily mail, who printed selected excerpts from the five-page missive. "It was presented as if she was reaching out and writing a loving letter in the hope of addressing the fracture, but the letter is not at all like that." Meghan can not To go back and forth, she can not use the press to get her message across, but hang me to dry.I have the right to defend myself. "

Of course, but that right had a cost. In unveiling this letter, perhaps the last piece of Meghan's private life that he had not yet offered to the media, he showed how eager he was to defend his own reputation at the price of happiness of his daughter.

Add to the fact that, when Meghan wrote the missive, he had already granted three more and more hostile interviews. He had stopped speculating on how she seemed to make fun of the in-laws who had warmly welcomed her warmly into the lap. take credit for everything she had accomplished ("She would be nothing without me", he said the daily mail. "I've made her the Duchess that she is today, all that Meghan is, I've done her") and, you can see why Meghan n & # 39; He may not be ready to take it for tea.

Sources said Vanity Fair that by sharing the letter with one of its main media, the exact thing Meghan asked that he stop doing it, Thomas had more or less canceled out any chance that he could one day repair his relationship with his youngest child. While one source states that Harry is "angry" and "upset" by the fact that his stepfather continues to talk to the press, Meghan is simply "exhausted".

She is far from being the only one to be constantly bewildered by her behavior. While most people without a Markle family name can understand why the king keeps his father at bay, lest everything she sends to him be on the Internet, she has received support from a surprising source after arrival of Archie.

In two separate interviews with the Daily mail and The mirror, Thomas's first wife, Roslyn Markle, mother of Samantha and Thomas Jr., broke years of silence to explain why she felt that Meghan should not bother to make an effort to make contact. Describing Thomas as a father and husband largely absent, she told the Daily mail that he has never met his two older grandchildren, Samantha's daughter Ashleigh Hale, 34 years old and his son Chris Hale, 32 – and had limited contact with Samantha's youngest daughter, 21 Noel Rasmussenand the children of Thomas Jr. Thomas Dooley III, 27 and Tyler Dooley, 26.

"Yes, [Archie] is her grandson, "she allowed the paper," but considering that there are five others with whom there is no real relationship … two of them that He has never even seen it. "

The grandchildren in question seem to be the likes of the Meghan team, horrified by their older parents' approach to the monarchy.

"My father and aunt are crazy, I feel very bad for Meghan, my brother Tyler and I have nothing to do with our father," said Thomas III. the Mirror. "His behavior since Meghan and Harry started going out together has been totally appalling, I just want people to know that I have nothing to do with it and I apologize to him."

For his part, Thomas firmly denies the claims of his ex, saying The mirror"These accusations about my relationship with my first wife more than 40 years ago are not valid." "If you have any questions, ask them to my children." Note that Samantha and Tom Jr left their mother and are came to live with me. "

Nevertheless, Roslyn is resolute in her position. "Knowing Tom like me, Meghan would be foolish to have her in her life," she insisted. The mirror. "Archie deserves to be brought up in a happy home, not in this vindictive situation that was created."

For the moment, Meghan limits its guests to the non-controversial variety. After spending the first week of his life in a family of three, Archie now accepts visitors. Prince William and Kate Middleton swayed in Windsor on Tuesday while Harry's father prince Charles should fall by Thursday. (A nod to the importance he places on the parents of his late mother, Harry invited Princess Dianathe older sister Lady Jane Fellowes for one of the first visits.)

And of course, Ragland has been there since the Easter weekend, with the new mom and dad at Frogmore Cottage. Noting that they "love" having her with her, said one source We weekly"She is so weighted and how much new parents need to keep them calm and give them good advice."

And fortunately, as Meghan's family tragedy approaches one year, the couple has also become quite capable of blocking that noise. It's a job made even easier by a newborn son, who is the mild temperament that pushed Meghan to say that parenting is "magical".

Even if his relatives exchange articles in British newspapers, they remain in their new cocoon of parents. "Harry and Meghan are really in baby's happiness right now," the source said. "It's a life they both dreamed about and now they have to live it."