Thomas Markle reveals when he last spoke to daughter Meghan

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Meghan’s estranged father wrote a handwritten letter to the US chat show host and personally delivered it to her home in California. Pictures have emerged of the 76-year-old handing a note to a security guard outside Oprah’s California mansion.

He is seen wearing a face mask, shirt, hoodie and chinos, as he completed a journey of more than 500 miles from his home in El Rosario, Mexico.

Oprah lives just a few minutes from Meghan and Harry in the A-list hotspot of Montecito.

A source told The Sun: “Thomas delivered a letter to Oprah asking her to contact him so he could tell his side of the story.

“This was not a note to Meghan and Harry, it was meant for Oprah.

“Thomas watched the interview she did with them and feels he deserves a chance to have his say.”

Meghan launched a ruthless attack on her father during her bombshell interview with Oprah earlier this month.

The Duchess of Sussex accused him of “betrayal” as she addressed his infamous run-in with the paparazzi ahead of her marriage to Harry in 2018.

The former Hollywood lighting-director was embroiled in controversy after staging paparazzi photographs of himself in the weeks before the wedding.

Several images emerged of Thomas being measured for a suit, looking at screen pictures of his daughter and Harry while in an internet cafe, and reading a picture book about the UK.

The 39-year-old former American actress said she did all she could to protect her parents Thomas and Doria Ragland from a so-called “media frenzy”.

Meghan was asked by Oprah if it felt like a “betrayal” when she found out her dad was seen to be working with the press.

The Duchess said: “I’m trying to decide if I’m comfortable even talking about that. It was… if we were going to use the word betrayal.”

She added: “Because when I asked him, when we were told by the comms team, this is a story that was going to be coming out.

“Which by the way, the tabloids had apparently known for a month or so and decided to hold until the Sunday before our wedding because they wanted to create drama, which is also a really key point in all this.

“We called my dad and I asked him and he said ‘no, absolutely not’.

“And I said, ‘you know the institution has never intervened for anything for us, but they can try to go in and kill this story, but if they do this once we’re not going to be able to use that same leverage to protect our own kids one day’.

“I just need you to tell me and if you tell me the truth we can help’.

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“And he wasn’t able to do that, and that, for me, has really resonated, especially now, as a mother.”

Thomas appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain less than 48 hours after their interview with Oprah was first aired in the UK on March 8.

He admitted he did lie to Meghan about working with the media ahead of her wedding.

Thomas added he has not heard from Meghan since he underwent heart surgery a couple of years ago – he also has never met his grandchild Archie, who born in May, 2019.

He said: “I’m available any time we can get together. I’d love to get together. I’d certainly like to see my grandson.”

Thomas acknowledged his past mistakes and made his point by taking a huge swipe at the Duke of Sussex’s past misdemeanours

Speaking to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, Thomas mentioned Harry’s infamous night of strip billiards in Las Vegas in 2012, as well as a fancy dress party with the royal wearing Nazi uniform in 2005.

Thomas said: “She made a statement saying she lost me – she didn’t lose me.

“I would’ve always been there for her, I’m there for her now if she wants me.

“We all make mistakes – but I’ve never played naked pool or dressed like Hitler like Harry did.”

You can still watch Meghan Markle and Prince Harry interview with Oprah on the ITVHub.

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