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Meghan Markle <\/a>is in a bit of a bind. She\u2019s been relentlessly flogging her Netflix Christmas special<\/a> in which she talks about the importance of family at Christmas<\/a>. She waxes lyrical about how magical it all is for the kids and how determined she is to make it special for Archie and Lilibet with handmade crackers and personalised advent calendars. She rambles on endlessly about warmth and love and friendship and family.<\/p>\n And while we\u2019re all watching this fantastical nonsense her estranged father, Thomas Markle, is desperately ill in a hospital<\/a> in the Philippines where there\u2019s a real danger he might die. So, will his long-lost daughter practise what she preaches about family and love and compassion and fly to his side? So far that hasn\u2019t happened. And it’s not likely to because she hasn\u2019t seen her ailing dad for seven years during which time he\u2019s had two heart attacks and a stroke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Back then, he made a mistake by foolishly posing for paparazzi pics showing him preparing for the wedding. He\u2019d wanted to improve his public image after unflattering shots had been published of him and which he thought would embarrass Meghan, so he posed up being measured for a new suit.<\/p>\n Hardly the crime of the century and not one that should have seen him disowned by his daughter and her Prince. Could Harry and Meghan<\/a> not have shown understanding \u2013 not anger \u2013 at what he\u2019d been trying to do? But what Thomas did was the excuse Meghan needed to cut him out of her life completely \u2013 like she had the rest of her family. Let\u2019s face it the ailing, overweight, skint Thomas was not someone she wanted to take into her new royal life despite the fact he had been a brilliant dad and paid for her private education.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s a bit rich for Meghan to get upset at what she saw as an unforgivable breach of family loyalty when she and Harry have done way worse to our Royal Family.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n