{"id":264755,"date":"2019-01-05T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1001885"},"modified":"2019-01-05T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:41:00","slug":"thomas-markle-defends-meghan-markle-amid-rumors-about-her-and-kate-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/thomas-markle-defends-meghan-markle-amid-rumors-about-her-and-kate-middleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Markle Defends Meghan Markle Amid Rumors About Her and Kate Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018920\/rs_600x600-181020163248-600.thomas-markle-meghan-markle.ct.102018.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64.887189292543\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"30.641172721479\">\n<p>In November,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/fabulous\/7839296\/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-cry-princess-charlotte-royal-wedding-dress\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported that Meghan left Kate &#8220;in tears over her demands for\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/princess_charlotte\">Princess Charlotte<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s bridesmaid dress after a &#8220;stressful&#8221; fitting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not buying that she made Kate cry,&#8221; Thomas told the newspaper in the new interview. &#8220;First off, I think Kate is a stronger woman than that. I think Kate also knows she is in a stronger power position than Meghan is. Kate&#8217;s the hero mother. I can&#8217;t see her being that weak.\u00a0No woman is who pops out a kid then walks out of hospital the same day. I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s afraid of anyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Kensington Palace did not comment on that report or most of the other negative stories about Meghan that have surfaced in recent months, but did issue a rare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/992470\/kensington-palace-breaks-silence-after-kate-middleton-and-meghan-markle-feud-rumors-report\" target=\"_blank\">denial\u00a0of\u00a0another<em>\u00a0Sun<\/em>\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0that claimed the women had an &#8220;explosive&#8221; argument, during which\u00a0Kate allegedly told Meghan it was &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; for her to\u00a0berate members of her team. Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/999192\/meghan-markle-and-kate-middleton-share-a-smile-during-christmas-outing-with-royals\" target=\"_blank\">two women put on a united front<\/a>, along with Harry and his brother and Kate&#8217;s husband\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\">Prince William<\/a><\/strong>, over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that Meghan is trying to hurt her in any shape or form,&#8221; Thomas continued. &#8220;But at the moment I cannot call Meghan and say, &#8216;What is going on? How can I help you?&#8217; I need to know what the hell is happening and why it is happening. I need to know why she is being bashed every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6475167\/Meghans-father-Thomas-Markle-reveals-sweet-cards-proof-did-wedding.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mail on Sunday<\/a><\/em><\/em> quoted Thomas as saying last month, &#8220;The Meghan I know was always sweet, kind, generous.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994682\/thomas-markle-says-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-have-put-up-a-wall-of-silence\" target=\"_blank\">She was always demanding but never rude<\/a>. I don&#8217;t want to say or do anything to hurt my daughter but I worry she is going to hurt herself.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.715644820296\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"29.604651162791\">\n<p>In the interview, Thomas also revealed that he plans to\u00a0write a book about\u00a0his and Meghan&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;good years&#8221; together. His older daughter and her half sister <strong>Samantha Markle<\/strong>, who has criticized her repeatedly on social media over her estrangement from their dad,\u00a0is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/971462\/why-meghan-markle-s-sister-refuses-to-let-their-family-drama-go\" target=\"_blank\">planning to write a book about the duchess<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his interview with <em>The Sun<\/em>, Thomas also\u00a0spoke out against Harry&#8217;s alleged treatment of him. He has said before that the Duke of Sussex had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/959565\/meghan-markle-s-dad-claims-he-lied-to-prince-harry-about-the-paparazzi-photos\" target=\"_blank\">told him to avoid the press<\/a>\u00a0and that he initially lied to the royal about the staged paparazzi photos. After they were released, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/959565\/meghan-markle-s-dad-claims-he-lied-to-prince-harry-about-the-paparazzi-photos\" target=\"_blank\">he and Harry argued over the phone<\/a> and\u00a0Thomas then reportedly hung up on him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel that he feels he is above everyone else and that he has a right to talk down to people,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;And I cannot accept that. It feels like arrogance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For months, Thomas has used the press to reach out to Meghan. He expressed love for her and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/979010\/thomas-markle-speaks-out-about-meghan-markle-s-overwhelming-and-joyful-pregnancy\" target=\"_blank\">delight over her pregnancy<\/a> with her and Harry&#8217;s first child. He has also vowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994682\/thomas-markle-says-meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-have-put-up-a-wall-of-silence\" target=\"_blank\">not remain silent<\/a> amid the estrangement from his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they ever want to speak to me, maybe I&#8217;ll quieten down a little bit,&#8221; he told\u00a0<em>The Sun<\/em>.\u00a0&#8220;But in the meantime I&#8217;m not going to become a monk in a monastery and take a vow of silence.\u00a0The bottom line is that I&#8217;ve done nothing to deserve this kind of treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The royals and Meghan can help end this nightmare by simply giving me a call,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1001885\/thomas-markle-defends-meghan-markle-amid-rumors-about-her-and-kate-middleton?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November,\u00a0The Sun\u00a0reported that Meghan left Kate &#8220;in tears over her demands for\u00a0Princess Charlotte&#8216;s bridesmaid dress after a &#8220;stressful&#8221; fitting. &#8220;I&#8217;m not buying that she made Kate cry,&#8221; Thomas told the newspaper in the new interview. &#8220;First off, I think Kate is a stronger woman than that. I think Kate also knows she is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 18:30:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}