Markle moved to the Philippines last year after he had a series of strokes.<\/p>\n
He is reportedly now living in a Florida rehabilitation centre learning to walk again after having a leg amputated in 2025.<\/p>\n
Meghan’s half-brother Thomas Markle Jnr claimed he found a stash of images belonging to his father at his former Philippines home, the Sun reported.<\/p>\n
He is said to have told police he discovered child abuse videos and pictures among the items. He is understood to have contacted the FBI in July.<\/p>\n
In a statement released by Meghan on Friday she said that when she received the information of the claims against her father she was “given assurance that these were being investigated”.<\/p>\n
Meghan said she hoped it could be understood why she had kept her distance from her father and did “not allow him to have contact with our children”.<\/p>\n
Authorities in the Philippines have confirmed they are investigating the allegations about Meghan’s father.<\/p>\n
The BBC was told on Friday the matter was being investigated by an anti-human trafficking and child sexual exploitation task force.<\/p>\n
Philippines Interior Minister Jonvic Remulla separately said national police had secured his computer and would carry out a digital forensic examination.<\/p>\n
Meghan is the only daughter of Markle and her mother Doria Ragland.<\/p>\n
He pulled out of attending Meghan and Harry’s wedding in 2018 – citing ill health – and they became estranged.<\/p>\n
The duke and duchess moved to the US in 2020 after stepping down as working royals.<\/p>\n
They returned to the UK with their children this year after six years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markle moved to the Philippines last year after he had a series of strokes. He is reportedly now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812526","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=812526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}