Prince Harry Blames Himself for Meghan Markle and Thomas Markle Rift: She ‘Doesn’t Have a Father’

08.12.2022 - 23:05 / usmagazine.com

Blaming himself. Prince Harry admitted that he feels like he is the reason why Meghan Markle no longer has a relationship with her father, Thomas Markle.

“Of course, it’s incredibly sad what happened. She had a father before this,” Harry, 38, explained during his and Meghan’s Netflix docuseries, which started streaming on Thursday, December 8.

In the third episode, the Duke of Sussex recalled how his relationship with Meghan, 41, caused a rift between her and her dad. Thomas, 78, previously made headlines ahead of the couple’s May 2018 wedding when he was caught staging paparazzi photos.

“Now she doesn’t have a father. I shouldered that. Because if Meg wasn’t with me, then her dad would still be her dad,” Harry explained, referring to the photo scandal. “It’s amazing what people would do when offered a huge amount of money. Fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, to hand over photographs, to create a story. And thank God most of them said no.”

Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, also weighed in on her ex-husband’s public drama. (The Duchess of Sussex’s parents were married from 1979 to 1987.)

“I felt sad that the media would run with this. That he would capitalize …,” the social worker, 66, said during the docuseries. “Certainly, as a parent — that’s not what you do. That’s not parenting.”

After Thomas originally made headlines in 2018, he ultimately didn’t attend his daughter’s wedding. Days before the ceremony, he announced that he was unable to fly after suffering a heart attack, which led King Charles III to walk the former actress down the aisle. Ragland, for her parent, was in attendance solo.

Following Harry and Meghan’s move to the United States, the Suits alum noted she “lost” her father after becoming a royal. In her March