{"id":178190,"date":"2025-12-11T01:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178190\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:36:14","slug":"meghan-markles-plans-to-contact-dad-thomas-markle-laid-bare-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178190\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s plans to contact dad Thomas Markle laid bare | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following her reported method of reaching out, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/?gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_campaign=1463632778&amp;adgroupid=56048139559&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_content=719979788324&amp;utm_term=the%20times&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=1463632778&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADiwoSCX8N6UJgW4gBqNqACDBSotY&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiArt_JBhCTARIsADQZaylZeDyu7b-NmMAhTGmHjmkHjySEJ57GroIYyw2i8OXalfr_EyVZGPkaAqzNEALw_wcB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a> have now reported that Meghan plans on sending a handwritten note in hopes of getting in touch with her dad.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Meghan told the publication: &#8220;There\u2019s been progress, but she hasn\u2019t made contact [yet]\u2026 It\u2019s hoped and expected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PEOPLE previously reported that it&#8217;s understood the mum-of-two had personally called several hospitals in an effort to locate her father, but was having difficulty confirming where he was being treated.<\/p>\n<p>It has previously been reported that Meghan does not have a working phone number for her father, who has never met Prince Harry or his grandchildren, Prince Archie, six, and Princess Lilibet, four.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Neil Sanico, who performed Mr Markle&#8217;s surgery last week, has spoken out recently and confirmed that the operation went well.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sanico said: &#8220;The surgery was a success, and the wound is healing well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/royals\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mail<\/a>: &#8220;Mr Markle is making good progress. He has a long road to recovery ahead of him, but moving out of the ICU and into a regular room is a positive step.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following her reported method of reaching out, The Times have now reported that Meghan plans on sending a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,4866,111,139,69,3164,110039,113943,113942],"class_list":["post-178190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-meghan-markle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-royal-family","tag-thomas-markle","tag-thomas-markle-heatlh","tag-thomas-markle-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}