Thomas Markle Sr has admitted visiting the Philippines for sex tourism with women over 18 – but he also appears to have had a relationship there with a woman he left distraught and feeling abandoned, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The Duchess of Sussex’s estranged father is believed to have formed the close bond with the Filipina during his time in Manila in the late 1980s, after he split from second wife, Doria Ragland.
Markle used a thinly veiled version of his own name during his travels in that period, including sending money to a family member of his lover using that assumed name,
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