Highlights
- Meghan reportedly sent Thomas Markle a final letter in 2025, saying he would not meet Archie and Lilibet.
- Meghan says her decision to keep her children away from her father was rooted in protecting their safety.
- Thomas Markle denies the allegations against him; authorities have acknowledged reports and are reviewing the matter.
Meghan Markle reportedly sent her estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr., a final letter in 2025 telling him she would not allow him to meet her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The reported message has drawn renewed attention after the Duchess of Sussex publicly addressed troubling allegations involving her father.
According to reporting by The Independent, Meghan sent the letter while Thomas was hospitalized in the Philippines following the amputation of his left leg. The reports say she informed him that she knew about allegations against him and would not contact him again. The letter’s reported contents have not been independently established in full.
The story took on greater significance after Meghan issued a statement on October 23, explaining that she had learned about allegations against her father years earlier. She said, “In 2018, a letter was sent to the Metropolitan Police and Royalty and Specialist Protection. That letter was subsequently shared with me.”
She continued: “It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my father and I was given assurances that these were being investigated.”
Meghan also addressed the longstanding question of why her father has never met her children. “I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications’ distortion over the years, any distance from my father and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children, was for one reason: to protect them,” she said.
Her statement followed reports that her half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., had alerted authorities after allegedly discovering child sexual abuse material at their father’s former home in the Philippines. The claims remain allegations, and Thomas Sr. has denied possessing such material. Speaking to the Daily Mail, he described the accusations as “a bunch of lies” and said the computers had been outside his control.
The reported 2025 letter should not be confused with the earlier correspondence involving British police. The Metropolitan Police confirmed on October 24 that it received a letter containing claims about Thomas in January 2019 and passed it to the couple’s office for their awareness. The force said the allegations concerned alleged offending outside the United Kingdom and had not been shared with other law enforcement agencies.
Meghan said she trusted authorities to investigate the concerns. “I trusted that the authorities were doing the same for other families,” she said.
She concluded her statement by focusing on those potentially affected, rather than the family dispute itself. “Although the breadth of what has now been uncovered is more sickening than one could ever imagine, my sincerest hope is that justice will be fully served and that the priority remains the safety and protection of innocent children.”
Thomas has previously spoken publicly about wanting to meet his grandchildren and reconcile with his daughter. The reported letter suggests Meghan’s position remained firm, but no one has independently verified its wording or the circumstances of its delivery. For now, her public explanation is clear: she says keeping her children away from their grandfather was about protecting them, not a public dispute over family estrangement.
