Thomas Markle: It WAS me texting Meghan from my sick bed before her to ... trends now

Thomas Markle: It WAS me texting Meghan from my sick bed before her to ... trends now
Thomas Markle: It WAS me texting Meghan from my sick bed before her wedding to ... trends now

Thomas Markle: It WAS me texting Meghan from my sick bed before her wedding to ... trends now

The father of Meghan Markle has firmly denied his daughter’s claim that someone else used his phone to send her a heart-rending text days before her wedding to Prince Harry.

Retired Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle, 78, says he wrote ‘every word’ of the emotive message as he lay in hospital recovering from two heart attacks.

In the third episode of the bombshell Netflix series Harry & Meghan, released on the streaming service last week, Meghan claimed her father’s phone had been ‘compromised’.

Speaking about the drama that unfolded in the days leading up to her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry – when her father posed for staged paparazzi pictures and then suffered two heart attacks, preventing him walking her down the aisle – Meghan said she found out her father was not coming to her wedding through website TMZ.

The father of Meghan Markle has firmly denied his daughter’s claim that someone else used his phone to send her a heart-rending text days before her wedding

The father of Meghan Markle has firmly denied his daughter’s claim that someone else used his phone to send her a heart-rending text days before her wedding

In the third episode of the bombshell Netflix series Harry & Meghan, released on the streaming service last week, Meghan claimed her father’s phone had been ‘compromised’

In the third episode of the bombshell Netflix series Harry & Meghan, released on the streaming service last week, Meghan claimed her father’s phone had been ‘compromised’

The US news site broke the story after Mr Markle was called by a reporter and he told them he would not be attending the wedding.

In the show, the Duchess claimed she was ‘calling, calling, calling, and the world is watching this drama play out’, as the show dramatically flashed up messages from the her phone on-screen.

These included worried text messages sent from Meghan’s phone including one reading: ‘I’ve been reaching out to you all weekend but you’re not taking any of our calls or replying to any texts… Do you need help?… What hospital are you at?’

Another, sent on May 17, 2018, said: ‘Please can I ask that you stop talking to any press… You haven’t returned any of our 20+ calls since we all spoke on Saturday morning; which only adds to the hurt you’ve been causing. We aren’t angry but we do really need to speak to u. Love M and H.’

Mr Markle’s text response was also shown on screen as dramatic music played: ‘I’ve done nothing to hurt you Meghan or anyone else I know nothing about 20 phone calls I’m sorry my heart attack is there [sic] any inconvenience for you.’

Minutes later he sent another message saying: ‘If only I had died then you guys then you guys [sic] could pretend to be sad.’

Meghan said she found out her father was not coming to her wedding through website TMZ

Meghan said she found out her father was not coming to her wedding through website TMZ

Meghan says in the Netflix show: ‘It was really weird. You know how people text, right?

‘My dad used a lot of emojis and a lot of ellipses and dot, dot, dot, and this was just the opposite. And it called me Meghan. I was like,

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