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A Met bodyguard told Meghan to 'leave it with us' when she wanted to expose her father's alleged child abuse

Meghan Markle with her father, Thomas Markle Sr, in a personal photograph taken before the FBI announced it was investigating him over child abuse images found in an abandoned Mexico storage unit, which also contained books on paedophilia, 35mm negatives of children and a paper plate bearing alleged dark web URLs.
Meghan Markle with her father, Thomas Markle Sr, in a personal photograph taken before the FBI announced it was investigating him over child abuse images found in an abandoned Mexico storage unit, which also contained books on paedophilia, 35mm negatives of children and a paper plate bearing alleged dark web URLs.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, wanted to go public about child sexual abuse allegations against her father Thomas Markle Sr, 82, in January 2019 after receiving a handwritten letter from his first wife, Roslyn Loveless, accusing him of travelling to the Philippines and Thailand because he claimed '12-year-olds are legal there'. A Royalty and Specialist Protection officer reportedly told her: 'Leave it with us, we'll investigate it' — advice that silenced her for years. The Met has now referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct and is still trying to identify the officer involved.

The letter, written by Loveless before her death in 2024, also accused Markle Sr of having sex with a child in the US.

Met chief Cressida Dick and assistant commissioner Neil Basu were kept in the dark at the time, with senior royal aides also unaware of the allegations.

Mexican Guardia Nacional officers raided Markle Sr's storage unit in Rosarito on Saturday, seizing a computer, thumb drives, VHS tapes and magazines following an FBI alert.

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