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Meghan’s Letter To Dad Revealed: “Please Stop Lying, Please Stop Creating Pain.”
Thomas Markle continues his unorthodox campaign for Dad of the Year by revealing a deeply personal and private five-page letter sent to him by his daughter in the Mail on Sunday.
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Although he presumably hopes to win public sympathy by revealing the contents of the letter which he calls ‘hateful’, many will feel it confirms his own cruelty, and exposes his campaign to shame and humiliate his own daughter.
At one point, Meghan asks her dad, “Please stop lying, please stop creating so much pain, please stop exploiting my relationship with my husband.”
In the letter, first mentioned by her friends in last week’s People magazine interview Meghan says that he did not call his daughter to say he was not attending her wedding. Meghan writes: “You’ve told the press that you called me to say you weren’t coming to the wedding—that didn’t happen because you never called.”
Markle’s lame response to this is to tell the Mail that he ‘sent a text telling them I wasn’t coming.’
It seems safe to assume that Thomas received a hefty fee for once again betraying the confidence of his daughter, as the paper does not make the claim, as it has previously, that it has not paid for the interview.
In another section Meghan says his actions have broken her heart “into a million pieces.”
Meghan also writes: “You’ve said I’ve never helped you financially and you’ve never asked me for help which is also untrue: you sent me an email last October that said: ‘If I’ve depended too much on you for financial help then I’m sorry but please if you could help me more not as a bargainship for my loyalty.’”
It also emerges that Meghan heard about her father’s heart attack the same way the rest of us did, through TMZ: “To hear about you having a heart attack through a tabloid was horrifying.”
In another paragraph she refers to her half sister Samantha, saying: “I pleaded with you to stop reading the tabloids. On a daily basis you fixated and clicked on the lies they were writing about me, especially those manufactured by your other daughter, who I barely know…you watched me silently suffer at the hand of her vicious lies, I crumbled inside.”
Is Meghan ‘Regularly Talking To Her Baby In Positive Tones’?
In their interview in People magazine, Meghan’s friends said they are worried she and her baby might be ‘traumatized’ by stress related to the negative coverage of her in the media. However, Marie Mongan, founder of HypnoBirthing—a technique which encourages mothers to use self-hypnosis to make delivering their children easier—tells The Daily Beast she needn’t worry. Meghan, she says, just needs to “stay positive. This is taught in our HypnoBirthing techniques and believe me they work. Since Meghan is following the Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing she will be regularly talking to her baby in positive tones.” Harry has a role to play too, says Mongan: “HypnoBirthing especially caters to our dads’ feelings and participation in both studying the HypnoBirthing techniques and role-playing, as well as massaging and repeating affirmations to the mom.”
Taking the High Road
That sigh of relief you can hear? Probably the Palace reacting to the news that Prince Philip is to voluntarily surrender his driving license, after causing a crash which miraculously left unharmed, bar a sprained wrist, two adults and a baby in the car that hit him. The Sunday Times reports today that the move means he will now almost certainly not face a police inquiry over the crash, as there is “little public interest in bringing a costly prosecution if Philip has voluntarily decided to quit driving.”
Maybe a Job Share?
The British broadcaster Jeremy Paxman reveals in his new TV show, Paxman on the Queen’s Children that Princess Diana told him that William often told her that he didn’t really want to be king, to which Harry would, according to The Mirror, reply: “If you don’t want the job I’ll have it!”
Kate Middleton’s Best ‘No Comment’ Ever
Camilla Tominey, the executive editor of The Daily Telegraph drew a disapproving contrast between Meghan’s friends’ interview with People and her own experience of calling a young Kate Middleton on her mobile to ask her for her reaction to splitting up with Prince William in 2007. “I’m terribly sorry,” Kate replied in polite tones, “I’ve never commented to the press before and I don’t think it would be wise to start now.”
It’s Time For Piers Morgan To Get Over His Meghan Thing
Piers Morgan this week used his breakfast TV show to viciously deride Meghan for writing messages to sex workers on bananas. Morgan has previously complained he was dropped by Meghan when she started dating Harry, moaning it was “damn rude” and not the behaviour of a “real pal.” Wonder why she didn’t trust him?
Work It
Another difference between the Duchesses of Sussex and Cambridge; their work rate. Meghan undertook 11 engagements in January while Kate completed just… four, according to a count by Royal Central.
Harry Married Meghan Because of ‘Accelerating Baldness’
Prince Harry’s bald spot is a kind of inverse Aral Sea, monitored constantly by aerial photographs for signs of growth. Now, The Sun reports the opinion of “hair loss expert” Spencer Stevenson who suggested that marrying Meghan might have been a panic reaction to accelerating baldness; “When you consider his apparent Jack-the-Lad nature, and the fact that he’s constantly in the public eye, it’s probably safe to assume that he too could have been paranoid that his own thinning crown would make him less attractive—despite his wealth and status.”
“Safe to assume”—yeah, right.
Royal Fashion Watch
Kate Middleton in an ‘angry dress’? How can this be true; she’s so mild-mannered. Has she gone punk? Is there a run on safety pins for some serious Sex Pistols dress-up in Kensington Palace? No, Kate wore this bespoke Eponine dress to visit a school in North London this week, and soon Twitter was commenting on the ‘angry eyes’ of the pockets and scowling face produced by the creases.
Naturally, we love this dress, and hope it becomes a Sesame Street character immediately; maybe a cousin of Oscar The Grouch.
This week in royal history
It was a royal marriage that lay the foundations of the monarchy we know today. On February 10, 1840, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in a ceremony at St. James’ Palace. They would go on to have nine children, including Edward VII, who was the father of George V, who was the father of George VI (father of the present queen). Whatever public image of family stability they projected, the truth, historian Jane Ridley has written, was that Victoria and Albert were “locked into a power struggle. Albert took over more and more of Victoria's work as queen as her pregnancies forced her to step aside. Victoria was conflicted: she admired her ‘angel’ for his talents and ability but she deeply resented being robbed of her powers as queen.” Albert died, aged 42, in 1861. Victoria wore black for the rest of her life.
Next week…
Kate continues her focus on mental health, attending the Royal Foundation’s ‘Mental Health in Education’ conference on Wednesday. KP says the conference brings together “delegates from health and education to discuss what more can be done to tackle mental health issues in schools in support of both pupils and staff.”
