Thomas Markle criticises ‘snotty’ Prince Harry and says daughter Meghan has ‘let him down’.
Meghan Markle's father has called Prince Harry "snotty" as he responded to their explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in which Meghan said she felt betrayed by him.
Thomas Markle Snr said he would always love his daughter, but that he felt she had let him down as well, saying he did not get any support to adjust when photographers turned up outside his home in the lead up to the royal wedding in May 2018.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain about Meghan's comments to Winfrey, Markle Snr said: "This is the first time I have heard her speak in four years. The last time we spoke, we texted, I was laying in a hospital bed after having a heart attack.
"I had to tell them I couldn't come to the wedding.
"At that point, they pretty much said goodbye, actually it wasn't quite goodbye - Harry had said to me 'if you had listened to me, this wouldn't have happened to you'."
Adding that he'd been in surgery having stents put in when he claimed Harry made the remark he said: "I felt that was kind of snotty.
"That's the last conversation we had."
Meghan, 39, said she had felt betrayed by her father when he worked with paparazzi to stage photographs which were more flattering to him. She said she had asked him about them and he denied cooperating.
She said: "We called my dad and I asked him (if he talked to the tabloids) and he said ‘no, absolutely not’, and I said, ‘you know the institution has never intervened for anything for us, but they can try to go in and kill this story, but if they do this once we’re not going to be able to use that same leverage to protect our own kids one day’.
“‘I just need you to tell me and if you tell me the truth we can help’.
“And he wasn’t able to do that, and that, for me, has really resonated, especially now, as a mother.”
Winfrey said: “Not being willing to protect you?”
Meghan said: “And also me saying just full stop, ‘if we use this to protect you we won’t be able to protect our own children one day, I’m talking about your grandchildren’.
“I look at Archie, I think about this child, and I genuinely can’t imagine doing anything to intentionally cause pain to my child. I can’t imagine it, so it’s hard for me to reconcile that.” AOL.
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