Meghan 'wanted to go public' with abuse claims against her father but a Met royal bodyguard 'advised her not to'
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 Markle, 45, wanted to speak out in 2019 after receiving a handwritten letter from Thomas Markle's first wife Roslyn Loveless accusing him of child sex abuse, but a Met Royalty and Specialist Protection officer told her: 'Leave it with us, we'll investigate it.' The officer also advised her not to go public at the very moment she was under fire for cutting ties with her father, who had been excluded from her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry.
The Met, which shared the letter with Meghan only for 'awareness', never investigated because the alleged offences took place abroad — and is now trying to identify the officer who gave her that advice.
Senior royal aides, Met chief Cressida Dick and assistant commissioner Neil Basu were all kept in the dark about the allegations, and the force has since referred itself to the IOPC.
Mexican police raided Thomas Markle's abandoned storage unit in Rosarito overnight, seizing a computer, thumb drives, VHS tapes and magazines after a search warrant authorised a hunt for child sexual abuse material.
