Meghan 'wanted to go public' over abuse claims against her father until a Met bodyguard 'warned her against it'
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.Philippine National Police officers examine seized devices at a Cebu City police facility. Thomas Markle Sr also faces a Philippine investigation after his son handed police a separate hoard of alleged abuse images.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, wanted to speak out about child sexual abuse claims against her father Thomas Markle, 82, in 2019 but was told by a Metropolitan Police royal bodyguard: 'Leave it with us, we'll investigate it.' The same officer warned her against going public at a moment she was already under fire for cutting ties with her father, who had not attended her wedding.
The allegations originated in a seven-page handwritten letter from Markle's first wife Roslyn Loveless, who claimed he had sex with a child in the US and travelled to the Philippines and Thailand because he said '12-year-olds are legal there'.
The Met, which passed the letter to the Sussexes' Kensington Palace office for 'awareness', never investigated because the alleged offences took place abroad — and is still trying to identify the bodyguard who advised Meghan.
Thomas Markle, now in a Florida nursing home after being asked to leave a rehabilitation centre, faces active criminal investigations in the Philippines, Mexico and by the FBI after child sexual abuse material was found in a second storage unit in Rosarito.
