{"id":897711,"date":"2026-10-28T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897711\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:32:12","slug":"thomas-markle-child-pornography-allegations-live-updates-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897711\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Markle child pornography allegations: Live updates, reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops in London lost the letter that an ex of Meghan Markle&#8217;s father, Thomas Markle, sent them in 2019, sounding the first alarm about his alleged child abuse, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/royal-family\/article\/met-misplaced-letter-containing-allegations-about-thomas-markle-g5nkw33vx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report by The Times UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Metropolitan Police couldn&#8217;t find the missive \u2014 which Page Six exclusively revealed Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/10\/24\/royal-family\/thomas-markles-ex-wife-sent-2019-letter-shared-with-meghan-warning-of-his-alleged-child-abuse-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was penned by Thomas&#8217;s first wife<\/a>, Roslyn Loveless \u2014 after reports broke Thursday that cops in the Philippines were <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/10\/22\/royal-family\/thomas-markle-under-investigation-for-child-porn-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">investigating the 82-year-old<\/a> for &#8220;hundreds if not thousands&#8221; of child sex abuse images that his son Thomas Markle Jr. said he found in his father&#8217;s Cebu home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.66699219;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"394\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/file-photos-meghan-markle-said-146308360_4ec578.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Markle\" class=\"wp-image-9272295\"\/>Embarrassingly, police were forced to ask Meghan Markle if she had kept a copy of the 2019 letter \u2014 which they had initially shared with her and husband Prince Harry&#8217;s office. \/ SplashNews.com<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/premium-exclusive-cebu-philippines-meghan-146199634.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9271892\"\/>Meghan Markle&#8217;s father, Thomas Markle, on July 5, 2015, outside his apartment building in Cebu, Philippines. BACKGRID \/ BACKGRID<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49924585;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/roslyn-markle-71-mother-meghan-146345020.jpg\" alt=\"Roslyn Markle stands with her arms crossed in front of a green bush.\" class=\"wp-image-9264933\"\/>Thomas Markle Sr.&#8217;s first wife, Roslyn Loveless (pictured above in December 2016), was behind a 2019 letter warning authorities about his alleged child abuse, multiple sources tell Page Six.  JohnChapple.com\/MEGA<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassingly, the Met were then forced to ask Meghan if she had kept a copy of the letter \u2014 which they had initially shared with her and husband Prince Harry&#8217;s office after receiving it from Loveless in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Loveless (who was married to the former TV lighting director from 1964 to 1975, and died in 2024) wrote, &#8220;I questioned Thomas Snr [sic] \u2014 he denied [the child sex abuse] accusation but stated that he went to the Philippines and Thailand <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/10\/25\/royal-family\/letter-from-thomas-markle-sr-to-ex-wife-reportedly-confessed-he-went-to-the-far-east-because-12-year-olds-are-legal-there\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">because 12-year-olds are legal there<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-wife is also said to have claimed that Thomas Sr. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/25\/world-news\/thomas-markles-home-had-trove-of-child-porn-police-confirm-as-philippine-official-calls-him-possible-sex-offender-of-grossest-kind\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posed a threat<\/a> to Prince Harry, Meghan and the duchess&#8217;s mother, Doria Ragland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops in London lost the letter that an ex of Meghan Markle&#8217;s father, Thomas Markle, sent them in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10586,5654,91,3071,88,56851,9843,9844,5416,167551],"class_list":["post-897711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celebrity-dads","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-crime","tag-entertainment","tag-live-blogs","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-thomas-markle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}