Meghan Markle may not have much contact with her dad, but Thomas Markle says he knows his duchess daughter well enough to blast back at her critics! Speaking to the U.K. tabloid The Sun, the elder Markle also chided her husband, Prince Harry, for not being more supportive of the former Suits star’s family, and vowed not to follow palace orders to keep his mouth shut. The former Hollywood lighting director-turned-royal wildcard also rubbished reports that Meghan and Kate are locked in a royal feud. Read on for details of Thomas’s latest Buckingham-directed salvos, and click here for more royal gossip….
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“I’m very upset by the criticism Meghan is getting,” Markle told a reporter. “I don’t think she deserves it and I don’t think she is doing one-third of the things she is being accused of doing.”
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Pregnant with her first royal offspring due in May, the Duchess of Sussex has reportedly been difficult to deal with in recent weeks. Reports in London also claim that she'd locked horns with
Prince William's wife,
Kate Middleton, in the run-up to her and Harry's wedding.
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Described by sources as "very different people" who "don’t get on," a face-off during a fitting for
Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid’s dress before the May nuptials reportedly left Kate "in tears."
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“I’m not buying that she made Kate cry," Thomas scoffed. "First off, I think Kate is a stronger woman than that.... No woman is who pops out a kid then walks out of hospital the same day."
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“I’m very upset by the criticism Meghan is getting,” Thomas said. “I don’t think she deserves it and I don’t think she is doing one-third of the things she is being accused of doing.”
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The elder Markle also said Harry, whom he has yet to meet in person, urged him not to speak to the press — before he ignited a publicity nightmare after appearing to cooperate with a paparazzi photographer. But Thomas is having none of that.
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“I’ll keep talking and I’ll probably get louder," he told The Sun. "Meghan and Harry’s silence empowers all the crazy tweets and
insults against me and my family.
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He said that the Prince needs to “man up and get over it. If I’m the first person who’s insulted you or hurt your feelings, you’ve got a long way to go."
“I’m very upset by the criticism Meghan is getting,” Markle told a reporter. “I don’t think she deserves it and I don’t think she is doing one-third of the things she is being accused of doing.”
Pregnant with her first royal offspring due in May, the Duchess of Sussex has reportedly been difficult to deal with in recent weeks. Reports in London also claim that she'd locked horns with
Prince William's wife,
Kate Middleton, in the run-up to her and Harry's wedding.
Described by sources as "very different people" who "don’t get on," a face-off during a fitting for
Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid’s dress before the May nuptials reportedly left Kate "in tears."
“I’m not buying that she made Kate cry," Thomas scoffed. "First off, I think Kate is a stronger woman than that.... No woman is who pops out a kid then walks out of hospital the same day."
“I’m very upset by the criticism Meghan is getting,” Thomas said. “I don’t think she deserves it and I don’t think she is doing one-third of the things she is being accused of doing.”
The elder Markle also said Harry, whom he has yet to meet in person, urged him not to speak to the press — before he ignited a publicity nightmare after appearing to cooperate with a paparazzi photographer. But Thomas is having none of that.
“I’ll keep talking and I’ll probably get louder," he told The Sun. "Meghan and Harry’s silence empowers all the crazy tweets and
insults against me and my family.
He said that the Prince needs to “man up and get over it. If I’m the first person who’s insulted you or hurt your feelings, you’ve got a long way to go."
