Meghan Markle’s estranged father has spoeled his bek uit about his royal daughter in a documentary, saying: “Meghan owes me... it’s time to look after Daddy”.
In the film, Thomas Markle: My Story, the 75-year-old details the breakdown of his relationship with the 38-year-old former actress and accuses Prince Harry of acting like a “sensitive” 12-year-old.
He said he believed his relationship with Meghan was now damaged beyond repair and she would not choose to see him again.
Thomas, who has not spoken to his daughter since a fallout in the week before her 2018 marriage, has become an outspoken critic of the duke and duchess, accusing them of “cheapening” the Royal Family by stepping back from their duties.
He defended his decision to rek his bek in the film and to be paid for the 90-minute documentary.
He said: “At this point, they owe me. The royals owe me. Harry owes me, Meghan owes me. What I’ve been through I should be rewarded for. My daughter told me that when I reach my senior years she’ll take care of me. I’m in my senior years now - it’s time to look after Daddy.”
BROKEN BOND: Meghan and dad. Picture: Instagram
The retired Hollywood lighting director, who has never met his royal grandson Archie, described his relationship with Meghan as “complicated”.
He insisted: “To them I don’t exist and now Harry, whether he realises it or not, is part of my family and I’m part of his. We should be talking.”
He added: “He’s not 12 years old any more - he’s got no right to be this sensitive.”
And he doesn’t not hold out much hope of a reconciliation, saying: “The last time they might see me is being lowered into the ground.”
The documentary uses previously unseen baby and childhood photographs of Meghan, when she lived with her father between the ages of 11 and 18.
Thomas divorced Meghan’s black mother Dora Ragland in the late 1980s.