\n<\/aside>\n\u201cMy dad has undergone emergency surgery,\u201d he continued. \u201cI would ask everyone around the world to keep him in their thoughts. My only wish is that Meghan shows my father some compassion. He is literally fighting for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019 daughter, meanwhile, said that she is praying for her father.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a strong man, but he has been through so much,\u201d Samantha Markle, 61, told the outlet. \u201cI am praying that he is strong enough to survive this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father has been through two heart attacks, a stroke and an earthquake,\u201d she added. \u201cI hope he can pull through this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Post has reached out to Meghan\u2019s rep for comment.<\/p>\n
This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s estranged dad is said to be fighting for his life. Thomas Markle, 81, was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery after suddenly falling ill at his home in the Philippines on Tuesday, according to Daily Mail. Following a three-hour surgery, Thomas was reportedly placed into intensive care as doctors continued to monitor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2185852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21751,70626,21741,23067,22730,22769,347365],"class_list":["post-2185851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-families","tag-entertainment","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-thomas-markle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meghan-Markles-dad-Thomas-Markle-rushed-to-hospital-for-emergency.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185853,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185851\/revisions\/2185853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}