When Thomas Markle Sr first entered the public eye a decade ago, living in a down-at-heel coastal Mexican town, he seemed an unusual prospective guest at a royal wedding.
But things soon became far more complicated than that – and his troubled relationship with daughter Meghan has remained in the headlines ever since.
Now, the Duchess of Sussex has said she is ‘deeply distressed’ by accusations her father had a hoard of child sex abuse images.
Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, alleged that he had found a stash of images belonging to her father at his former home in the Philippines.
Thomas Sr denied possessing
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