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The Duchess of Sussex<\/a> has \u201creached out\u201d to her estranged father Thomas Markle<\/a> after reports he had his leg amputated following surgery in the Philippines.<\/a><\/p>\n Meghan has been estranged from her father since her wedding in 2018 after he was caught staging paparazzi photos in the run-up to the big day.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the Duchess of Sussex said: \u201cI can confirm she has reached out to her father.\u201d<\/p>\n No further details have been released, including whether or not Meghan\u2019s attempt was successful.<\/p>\n Meghan is said to have previously tried to reach out to him.<\/p>\n Mr Markle, who moved from Mexico to live in the Philippines, has never met his grandchildren, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.<\/p>\n His son, Thomas Markle Jr, said before the news that the duchess had \u201creached out\u201d that he hoped Meghan would show \u201ccompassion\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cMy only wish is that Meghan shows my father some compassion. He is literally fighting for his life,\u201d he told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n Mr Markle pulled out of attending Harry and Meghan\u2019s wedding seven years ago after he was caught staging photographs for the paparazzi in the US, and then suffered a heart attack.<\/p>\n Harry\u2019s father, now the King, stepped in to walk Meghan down the aisle.<\/p>\n Mr Markle went on to repeatedly speak to the media and later claimed he had been \u201cshunned\u201d by Meghan.<\/p>\n He criticised Meghan but still said he wanted to reunite with her, and publicly pleaded to be able to see Archie and Lili, saying in 2023: \u201cShe is not the person I knew as my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n The duchess previously won a High Court privacy and copyright claim against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over articles that reproduced parts of a \u201cpersonal and private\u201d handwritten letter she wrote to Mr Markle in a bid to persuade him to stop talking to the press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-301643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}