Megan Markle ignored the request of Queen Elizabeth: I will not visit my father

Royal sources revealed that Megan Markle rejected a direct request from Queen Elizabeth II to travel to the United States and meet her father, Thomas Markle, in an attempt to resolve the family dispute that caused a widespread media uproar years ago.

British journalist Tom Power, issued in 2022, entitled “Revenge: Megan and Harry and the War between the Windsor”, provides the details of this tension that started before Megan’s wedding to Prince Harry in 2018, after her father was involved in a fabricated photo scandal taken by photographers from “Paparazzi”, which caused a deep crack of the relationship.

According to the book, Thomas Markle was unable to attend the royal wedding after suffering a sudden heart attack, despite the readiness of the Queen and King Charles at the time to pave the way for his participation.
Due to his absence, Charles accompanied the bride to the royal corridor instead of him, but the absence of the father was only the beginning of a long semester of tension, as he continued to appear in the media, criticizing his daughter and the royal family.

The novel indicates that Megan tried to communicate with him several times to calm the atmosphere, but the failure of the attempts led him to make repeated statements to the press, which increased the crisis.

During Meghan’s visit to May Castle in July 2018, the pressure increased inside the palace, as King Charles expressed his annoyance at the continuation of media attacks.
Then Queen Elizabeth intervened personally, calling on Megan to travel to America to end the dispute in face, but the latter refused, considering that the matter was “” impractical and dangerous “in the absence of a safe way to communicate with her father without raising a new media uproar.

Power says that the Queen and King Charles considered her argument exaggerated, and the collective call ended with a state of confusion within the royal family towards her position.