Meghan Markle “is really shaken up” with alleged crimes of her father

Ain fact, Meghan Markle has been experiencing a particularly difficult phase for years because of recent news. People points out that the Duchess of Sussex is “holding on” in the face of alleged child abuse crimes committed by her father, Thomas Markle.

“ It's been really hard. She is really shaken,” Meghan told the magazine. “She has small children and I think that, along with the victims, is weighing her very much on the conscience. It's traumatic," he said. 

People also mentions that there is “a slight sense of relief that all this is coming to the top,” according to the Duchess’s friend, hoping that “a proper investigation will be carried out”. 

“There is a feeling of relief, because this is something that she has been carrying for some time. But I don’t think anyone could have imagined the dimension of what now came to the public,” commented a source close to Prince Harry’s wife. “There is much to process emotionally. But she's fine. He's holding up. It is surrounded by loved ones and feels supported at this moment. There are fantastic people around her to help her overcome this moment,” she said. 

The charges against Meghan Markle's father and the Duchess's reaction. Sister says they're lies

Thomas Markle Jr., half-brother of Meghan Markle, remember, was the one who found the illicit material at his father's home, Thomas Markle, in Cebu, Philippines. There were four large boxes with “hundreds, if not thousands” of child pornography images, as well as videos of girls aged not more than 10 or 11 years in sexual acts.

Thomas Markle Jr. will also have found on his father's phone a 15-minute video where allegedly naked girls appeared, and also speaks of three photographs of naked girls, and that one of the images appeared to have been captured at his father's old home in Rosarito, Mexico, according to The Sun.

As soon as the case went public, Meghan Markle reacted in a statement. “I am deeply dismayed by the news that has come to the public in the last 24 hours, and my thoughts are with all the children who may have been victims of abuse,” he said.

“ In 2018, a letter was sent to the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Family and Special Persons Protection Service. That letter was later transmitted to me. The letter contained disturbing and disturbing allegations against my father, and assured me that these were being investigated,” he said, revealing after the father’s distance was to “protect his children.”.

Meghan’s half-sister Samantha accuses her brother of being “lying”. “These disgusting allegations have no basis and my brother is disgusting for inventing them. He wants to destroy our father. Shame on him. My brother started spreading these lies a few weeks ago when my father stopped giving him money. For years he uses his father as a source of income and, as soon as the money stopped coming, invented the most scandalous lies he managed to try to make money from the media,” he says.

It is also known that the Duchess of Sussex was aware of the charges against her father and, according to The Sun, Meghan Markle sent a letter to her father when he was hospitalized in the Philippines in December 2025, following the amputation of a leg due to a blood clot.

In this same letter, the Duchess of Sussex told Thomas that she would never allow him to meet her children and that it would be the last time she would hear from you. It all indicates that the Duchess accused her father of sexually abusing children, and that she knew what had happened, adding that the authorities were aware of the events.