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Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Snr, had to undergo life-saving surgery during which his leg was amputated, it has been claimed.\u00a0 Mr Markle, 81, had been rushed to hospital<\/a> and underwent a three-hour operation on Wednesday to remove his left foot and lower leg after a circulation issue turned the limb blue and black.<\/p>\n The news was announced by his son, Thomas Jr, who gave an update on his father\u2019s condition. He told the Daily Mail<\/a>: \u201cMy dad is being very brave. His foot turned blue and then black. It happened very quickly. I took him to a local hospital and they did some scans and an ultrasound and said the leg had to be amputated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He added: \u201cThere was no option. I was told the leg had to be removed and it was a case of life or death.\u201d<\/p>\n The former TV lighting director underwent the operation in the Philippines, where he moved to earlier this year.<\/p>\n Thomas Snr is known to have a difficult relationship with his daughter Meghan<\/a>, and has previously talked about the \u201cpain\u201d of their estrangement since her relationship with Prince Harry<\/a> developed.<\/p>\n It is not thought that Meghan has reached out to her family following the health ordeal, with Thomas Snr remaining in a critical condition in hospital and awaiting a further operation in the coming days.<\/p>\n Tom Jr added: \u201cOne of his doctors said the next two or three days are critical. His left leg has been removed below the knee. They were worried about infection setting in – sepsis or gangrene. The flesh was black and dying.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was no option given.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was either ‘we have to operate now and remove the leg or he may die.<\/p>\n It was a life-threatening situation.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE TO FOLLOW…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/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 www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Snr, had to undergo life-saving surgery during which his leg was amputated, it has been claimed.\u00a0 Mr Markle, 81, had been rushed to hospital and underwent a three-hour operation on Wednesday to remove his left foot and lower leg after a circulation issue turned the limb blue and black. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2187794,"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":[23067,347365],"class_list":["post-2187793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-meghan-markle","tag-thomas-markle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Thomas-Markle-major-health-update-as-Meghan-Markles-father-has.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187793","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=2187793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187795,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187793\/revisions\/2187795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}