However it wasn’t long before things appeared to be less than smooth, as Bowers explained how the King’s “bewilderment with the American” became increasingly apparent due to her reluctance to mend her relationship with her father Thomas Markle. Meghan and Thomas had become estranged as he made comments to the press, and he was later removed from his duties of walking her up the aisle on her wedding day.
Bowers explained how even though press reports at the time highlighted that Charles had “become attached to Meghan” during the Castle Mey visit, the King had “never really understood her or what she wanted.” His confusion over her apparently stemmed over her refusal to engage with her father, as Bowers noted, “That week, his irritation about Thomas Markle’s TV appearances, especially his criticism of the Royal Family came to a head.”
Bowers continued as he revealed how Charles asked Harry, “‘Can’t she just go and see him and make this stop?’ Charles “berated” Harry.”
Meghan reportedly felt that her in-laws “fundamentally don’t understand” her situation with her father, despite Harry “endlessly explaining the situation” about Thomas’s behaviour to them.
Bowers also writes that as time went on, the “inconsistencies of Meghan’s excuses” not to see her father and resolve the conflict that was beginning to impact the Royal Family’s reputation, which then began to “irritate” Charles.
Meghan Markle remains estranged from her father, confessing to Oprah Winfrey in 2021, a year after stepping away from Royal duties with Prince Harry, that she felt she “lost” her father when she joined the Royal family in 2018.
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