{"id":2186698,"date":"2025-12-04T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2186698"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:07:20","slug":"poll-should-meghan-markle-visit-her-dad-as-he-fights-for-his-life-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/poll-should-meghan-markle-visit-her-dad-as-he-fights-for-his-life-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Should Meghan Markle visit her dad as he \u2018fights for his life\u2019 | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meghan Markle<\/a>‘s estranged father Thomas Markle<\/a> is currently in intensive care in a hospital in the Philippines<\/a>, her half-brother has revealed. After becoming seriously ill at home, he was rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Thomas Markle Jr<\/a> said: “I took dad to a hospital close to our home and they did various scans and the doctors said his life was in imminent danger.” Speaking of their dad, he added: “They raced us by ambulance, with the sirens going, to a much bigger hospital in the center of the city. My dad has undergone emergency surgery.”<\/p>\n

Do you think Meghan should visit her dad in the hospital? Vote in our poll below. If you can’t see the link, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meghan, 44, and her father have not been on speaking terms since 2018, but Thomas has made it clear that he would love to reunite with his daughter.<\/p>\n

Due to their fractured relationship, Thomas has not yet met his grandchildren, Prince Archie<\/a>, six, and Princess Lilibet<\/a>, four.<\/p>\n

It was previously reported that Thomas has also never met Prince Harry<\/a>, whom Meghan married in May 2018.<\/p>\n

Thomas did not attend the couple’s royal wedding due to ill-health. The pair’s relationship became strained as Meghan felt betrayed after he staged paparazzi photos and later lied about his involvement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking of his half-sister, Thomas Jr. said that he hopes Meghan makes time to reunite with their dad<\/a> as he is currently “fighting for his life”.<\/p>\n

He said: “My only wish is that Meghan shows my father some compassion. He is literally fighting for his life”.<\/p>\n

Thomas’s daughter \u2013 and Meghan’s half-sister \u2013 Samantha, 61, also told the Daily Mail: “He is a strong man, but he has been through so much. I am praying that he is strong enough to survive this. My father has been through two heart attacks, a stroke and an earthquake. I hope he can pull through this.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle‘s estranged father Thomas Markle is currently in intensive care in a hospital in the Philippines, her half-brother has revealed. After becoming seriously ill at home, he was rushed to the hospital. Thomas Markle Jr said: “I took dad to a hospital close to our home and they did various scans and the doctors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2186699,"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":[43],"tags":[23067,421726,228266,22769,347365,421725,387838],"class_list":["post-2186698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-dad","tag-meghan-markle-latest","tag-royal-family","tag-thomas-markle","tag-thomas-markle-jnr","tag-thomas-markle-latest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/POLL-Should-Meghan-Markle-visit-her-dad-as-he-\u2018fights.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186698","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=2186698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186700,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186698\/revisions\/2186700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}