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Meghan Markle<\/a> is tipped to face a major family change as her estranged father, Thomas, is eyeing up another marriage at 81<\/a>. Sources close to the Markle family revealed that he has fallen in love with Filipino nurse Rio Caneda, 46, and is \u201chappier than he could ever have imagined\u201d.<\/p>\n The two met at a rehab hospital in the Philippines after Mr Markle\u2019s amputation last December. It would be his third marriage, after his 1964 marriage to Roslyn Loveless and his 1987 marriage to Doria Ragland, the Duchess of Sussex’s mother. A source told the Daily Express: \u201cThomas told me he\u2019d marry her in a heartbeat and he\u2019s telling the rest of the family he\u2019s happier than he could ever have imagined at the thought of spending the rest of his life with Rio.\u201d<\/p>\n The source did not specify whether Mr Markle would marry in the US or back in the Philippines, where he has said he \u201cloves\u201d living and is \u201cenjoying life.\u201d<\/p>\n THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. PLEASE CHECK FOR UPDATES BELOW\u2026<\/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 is tipped to face a major family change as her estranged father, Thomas, is eyeing up another marriage at 81. Sources close to the Markle family revealed that he has fallen in love with Filipino nurse Rio Caneda, 46, and is \u201chappier than he could ever have imagined\u201d. The two met at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2438979,"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":[34927,347533,34928,23067,421726,228266,34911,478607,246898,24228,22089,347365],"class_list":["post-2438978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-harry-and-meghan","tag-harry-and-meghan-latest-news","tag-harry-and-meghan-news","tag-meghan-markle","tag-meghan-markle-dad","tag-meghan-markle-latest","tag-meghan-markle-news","tag-meghan-markle-stepmum","tag-royal-family-live","tag-royal-family-news","tag-royal-news","tag-thomas-markle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Royal-Family-LIVE-Meghan-Markle-braces-for-huge-family-bombshell.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438978","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=2438978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438980,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438978\/revisions\/2438980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}