Meghan Markle’s story takes another twist: A disputed police letter, Harry’s Netflix confession and The Sun’s very curious investigation
As shocking allegations against Thomas Markle Sr emerge, Meghan Markle has offered a dramatic new explanation for cutting off her father. But the Metropolitan Police have contradicted her timeline, a journalist has reportedly been shown a letter police initially struggled to locate and Thomas Markle Jr’s extraordinary investigation raises questions of its own. Welcome to the latest chapter of the Markle family soap opera, where almost everyone has a story and the facts are considerably harder to pin down.
Meghan Markle has offered a dramatic new explanation for cutting off her father in 2018. Unfortunately, the Metropolitan Police have contradicted her timeline, Prince Harry’s own words tell a different story and the extraordinary investigation by Thomas Markle Jr raises some rather uncomfortable questions.
Just when you thought the Markle family circus couldn’t get any more dysfunctional, along comes an explosive scandal involving alleged child sexual abuse material, an eight-year-old family feud, a mysterious police letter and The Sun newspaper seemingly getting a front-row seat to a criminal investigation.
And right on cue, Meghan Markle has a statement explaining everything.
Well, almost everything.
Because within 24 hours of the Duchess of Sussex presenting her latest explanation for cutting off her father, Scotland Yard managed to throw a rather substantial spanner into her carefully constructed timeline.
The letter Meghan remembered from 2018 – but police say arrived in 2019
On 23 October 2026, Meghan claimed that she had been informed of disturbing allegations concerning her father, Thomas Markle Sr, shortly after marrying Prince Harry in 2018.
She said a letter containing those allegations had been sent to the Metropolitan Police that year and subsequently shared with her.
More importantly, Meghan declared that her decision to distance herself from her father and prevent him from meeting her children had been made for one reason: to protect them.
Quite the revelation, considering the public had spent eight years hearing about staged paparazzi photographs, betrayal and the breakdown of their relationship around her wedding.
But then the police checked their records.
On 24 October, Scotland Yard confirmed that the letter had actually arrived in January 2019, not 2018.
The Met also confirmed that the allegations hadn’t been passed to other law enforcement agencies and that it was reviewing its handling of the correspondence.
Suddenly, Meghan’s definitive 2018 explanation had a rather inconvenient date problem. Her spokesperson quickly issued a follow-up, suggesting she had simply misremembered events from more than seven years earlier without access to a diary or contemporaneous record. Apparently, she could recall the seriousness of the allegations, the assurances she received and precisely why she had severed ties with her father – just not the year it happened. Memory is imperfect, of course. But the problem is bigger than getting a date wrong.
How does information received in 2019 explain a relationship that had already collapsed before her May 2018 wedding?
Unless Meghan had received equivalent allegations through another source in 2018, the chronology simply doesn’t support her newly presented explanation for the original estrangement.
The Met confirmed receiving the letter in January 2019. The Met explained that the correspondence had been passed to its Protection Command because of concerns about Meghan’s security. It was subsequently forwarded to the Sussexes’ office.
But here’s the extraordinary part: the Met confirmed that the allegations had not been passed to other law enforcement agencies.
It is now considering referring its handling of the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
That raises two separate problems.
First, Meghan’s original timeline was wrong according to police records.
Second, her suggestion that she had been assured the allegations were being investigated sits uneasily alongside reports that the Met itself never launched a criminal investigation into her father.
Someone may have assured Meghan that appropriate action would follow. But who? And what exactly did that assurance mean? Because informing a member of the royal family about an allegation is not the same as investigating the allegation. And if the police were not conducting a criminal investigation, who was supposedly doing so? And if they were not doing anything, like not even passing it onto the FBI, then why? What exactly is in that letter?
Eight years later, that question deserves an answer.
Remember when Harry said Meghan would still have a father if she’d never met him?
And this is where Prince Harry’s own words make the situation considerably more awkward.
In their 2022 Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, Harry spoke about Meghan losing her relationship with Thomas Markle. He described the situation as incredibly sad and accepted responsibility, saying:
“If Meg wasn’t with me, then her dad would still be her dad.”
That’s a rather different explanation, isn’t it?
In 2022, Harry was attributing the estrangement to the consequences of Meghan’s relationship with him, against the backdrop of paparazzi photographs and the media frenzy surrounding their wedding.
Now, in 2026, Meghan is presenting the estrangement as a decision to protect her family from deeply disturbing allegations concerning her father.
Both circumstances could have contributed to the continuing estrangement. But Harry’s statement makes it clear that the couple previously presented a very different explanation for why Meghan lost her relationship with Thomas.
And remember, when Harry made those comments in 2022, Meghan would already have known about the 2019 letter.
So why wasn’t protecting the family the explanation in their own documentary?
For a couple who produced six Netflix episodes explaining their version of events, that’s quite an omission.
The police struggled to confirm the letter. The newspapers had already seen it.
Here’s another peculiar twist.
When Meghan first referenced the correspondence, the Met initially said it was checking whether the letter existed in its records.
Meanwhile, The Sun said it had seen a copy and ITV royal editor Chris Ship subsequently reported examining the handwritten document.
Even ITV initially described the correspondence as dating from 2018 before updating its report to reflect the police’s 2019 findings.
So journalists could examine a copy of a highly sensitive letter involving serious allegations, while the police initially struggled to establish their own records. And they could also claim it was from 2018. And wouldn’t that letter have a date on it? So who is lying?
Who supplied the media with the copy? Well we know it can only come from one person – Meghan Markle.
How long had it been available?
And who decided it should be shown to journalists and not the authorities during this latest scandal? Why Meghan Markle of course.
The fact that this document was provided to the media immediately upon the investigation going public, suggests it was always at the ready by Meghan. Nobody else could provide it to the media as she was the only one who had the letter.
After years of legal battles over private letters appearing in newspapers, the Markle family somehow finds itself in yet another controversy involving private correspondence and the British tabloids.
You really couldn’t make this up.
Thomas Markle Jr, a computer technician and The Sun’s extraordinary access
Now let’s turn to Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, because his investigation deserves just as much scrutiny.
According to The Sun, Thomas Jr discovered hundreds or possibly thousands of alleged child sexual abuse images among his father’s belongings in the Philippines.
He says he contacted American authorities in July before continuing to examine the material himself.
And here’s where things get particularly interesting.
Thomas Jr reportedly enlisted a local IT technician to access three of his father’s computer hard drives.
The Sun hasn’t established whether any security was unlawfully bypassed, so describing the technician as a hacker would be premature but not unreasonable.
But who exactly was this person? What methods were used to access the devices? Were forensic copies made and could anything have been altered?
Those questions matter enormously when digital evidence could potentially determine whether somebody faces serious criminal charges.
Then there’s The Sun’s extraordinary involvement.
The newspaper’s foreign editor, Nick Parker, was photographed with Thomas Jr in the Philippines, while photographer Dan Charity documented aspects of the evidence handover.
The Sun also reported that Thomas Jr spent more than nine hours cataloguing material and signing declarations, inventories and supplementary sworn statements under legal supervision.
Why was a tabloid newspaper granted such extensive access during a developing criminal investigation?
And why did this highly sensitive evidence handover become such an elaborate photographic event?
This spectacle certainly warrants scrutiny, particularly before investigators have completed their independent forensic examination.
Meanwhile, Thomas Jr has performed a spectacular about-face, apologising publicly to Meghan for defending their father all these years.
Thomas Markle Sr has categorically denied the allegations, calling them sick lies. Philippine authorities are investigating and no criminal finding has been established.
And now there’s another letter – from December 2025
As if one mystery letter wasn’t enough, The Sun on Sunday reported that Meghan wrote to her father in December 2025 while he was recovering from a leg amputation.
According to the newspaper, she confronted him with allegations concerning children and told him he would never meet Archie or Lilibet. Thomas Markle has never revealed the contents of this letter to the media.
The reported existence of this correspondence adds another complication to years of public statements about the family estrangement.
Written communication demonstrates that the history is more complicated than the familiar account of two people who simply stopped communicating in 2018.
And was Meghan planning this all along?
What about Thomas Markle Sr’s denials?
Thomas Sr has not remained silent. He has repeatedly denied possessing child sexual abuse material and has accused his son of making false allegations against him.
In a fresh interview reported on 25 October, Thomas Sr acknowledged having paid for sex during previous trips to the Philippines, but insisted he had never had sexual relations with anyone under 18.
He also expressed willingness to have his computer examined, reportedly arguing that if illegal material was present, somebody else had placed it there. Samantha Markle has supported her father’s denial and questioned who had access to his devices while he was away.
Those statements do not disprove the allegations any more than Thomas Jr’s statements prove them. But they reinforce why an independent forensic assessment is essential.
Thomas Sr is elderly, has experienced serious health problems and is recovering from a major amputation. The severity of the allegations does not eliminate his right to a proper investigation. Nor should an accusation of this nature be adjudicated through competing newspaper exclusives.
Thomas Markle’s dementia diagnosis and another missing letter
Meanwhile, Thomas Markle Sr has reportedly been diagnosed with dementia, which he authorised the Daily Mail to disclose.
He claims he vaguely remembers receiving Meghan’s December 2025 letter while recovering from his leg amputation but cannot recall what it said.
Journalist Caroline Graham, who witnessed the delivery, says Thomas read the letter, returned it to its envelope and asked her to put it in his wardrobe. So why not simply retrieve it and read it again? Apparently, that’s another mystery. Thomas has since returned to the US, leaving most of his belongings in the Philippines and the letter’s current whereabouts are unknown.
Because the letter remains missing and they do not communicate, Mr Markle told reporters:
“If Meghan says that’s what she wrote, then she’s probably right. I was very sick. I have memory issues”
How convenient for a family scandal already drowning in conflicting accounts. The one document that could establish exactly what Meghan wrote is now seemingly missing, leaving everyone arguing over its contents.
However, Markle Sr strongly denies the underlying abuse allegations themselves, calling them “sick lies”.
A lot of explanations, but still not enough answers
There are serious allegations against Thomas Markle Sr, and they deserve a thorough, independent investigation. If children were harmed, identifying those responsible and securing justice must be the priority.
But the existence of an investigation doesn’t mean the Sussexes’ changing explanations should escape scrutiny.
In 2022, Harry said Meghan would still have her father if she hadn’t married him.
In 2026, Meghan said she had kept her father away to protect her family, citing allegations she claimed to have learned about in 2018.
Then the police confirmed 2019.
Then her spokesperson corrected the timeline.
Meanwhile, The Sun has become the main stage for a remarkable family investigation involving personal devices, private correspondence, sworn affidavits and a photographer documenting the evidence handover.
It’s a story full of extraordinary claims and increasingly uncomfortable contradictions.
And until the authorities establish what actually happened, one thing is certain: a corrected timeline and another carefully worded statement aren’t going to answer all the questions Meghan, Harry and the rest of the Markle family have now raised.
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