Meghan Markle's heartbreaking letter to her father has been revealed

goss 11/02/2019

An emotional letter the Duchess of Sussex wrote to her father has been leaked to the Daily Mail.

In the letter, the Duchess details how her turbulent relationship with her family has affected her.

"Your actions have broken my heart into a million pieces - not simply because you have manufactured such unnecessary and unwarranted pain, but by making the choice to not tell the truth as you are puppeteered in this - something I will never understand," she wrote.

She chastised him for lying in interviews, such as when he claimed he'd called her to say he was no longer coming to her wedding.

"That didn't happen because you never called," she wrote.

"I have only ever loved, protected, and defended you... so the week of the wedding to hear about you having a heart attack through a tabloid was horrifying."

She said she "begged" him to accept her help and sent someone to his home in Mexico, but instead Mr Markle "stopped answering [his] phone and chose to only speak to tabloids".

Photo credit: Daily Mail

Meghan claimed her father was obsessed with media coverage of their family, and called out her half-sister Samantha, another tabloid fixture.


Meghan also called him out for saying she'd never helped him financially and that he'd never asked for money, citing an email he sent in October 2017 in which he asked for her to "help me more".

"If you love me, as you tell the press you do, please stop," she pleaded.


"I realise you are so far down this rabbit hole that you feel (or may feel) there's no way out, but if you take a moment to pause I think you'll see that being able to live with a clear conscience is more valuable than any payment in the world."

In his reaction to the letter, which was also provided to the Mail, Mr Markle denied most of his daughter's claims, saying the Duke and Duchess "knew what was going on" when he didn't attend their wedding.

He also claimed Prince Harry had written some of the letter, citing certain English phrases as proof.

"This is pure Harry," he said of the above extract. "Americans don't use the 'rabbit hole' expression."

Some suspect that Thomas Markle (Meghan's father) was the one to leak the letter, while others are questioning the authenticity of it.