When Meghan Markle celebrates her 37th birthday next Saturday, she will doubtless be showered with love and gifts from adoring husband Prince Harry and receive the warmest of greetings from other members of the Royal Family, including the Queen.
But 5,495 miles away in Mexico, her devastated father will spend the day nursing a broken heart.
For
Thomas Markle today claims in The Mail on Sunday that Meghan has
cruelly excised him from her life – and he fears he may never see any
children that she and Harry might have.
Retired award-winning Hollywood lighting
director Mr Markle has not spoken to his 'beloved Bean' – his childhood
nickname for Meghan – for more than ten weeks and claims the rift is
punishment for him staging fake paparazzi pictures before the wedding
and then daring to speak out in his own
Thomas Markle, 74, lives 5,495 miles away from his daughter Meghan in Rosarito, Mexico
'I'm
really hurt that she's cut me off completely. I used to have a phone
number and text number for her personal aides at the Palace, but after I
said a few critical words about the Royal Family changing Meghan, they
cut me off.
'Those numbers were disconnected, they no longer work. I have no way of contacting my daughter,' he says.
'It's
her birthday on August 4 and I want to send her a card. But if I send a
birthday card to Kensington Palace, or wherever she's living now, it'll
just be one among thousands. She'll probably never see it.
'I
thought about sending it by Priority Mail Express, but the Palace would
probably just soak it in water for three days to make sure it doesn't
explode.'