{"id":2690358,"date":"2026-10-23T18:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-markles-statement-triggers-internal-police-investigation-amid-disturbing-allegations-against-her-father\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:30:57","slug":"meghan-markles-statement-triggers-internal-police-investigation-amid-disturbing-allegations-against-her-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-markles-statement-triggers-internal-police-investigation-amid-disturbing-allegations-against-her-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s Statement Triggers Internal Police Investigation Amid &#8216;Disturbing Allegations&#8217; Against Her Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeghan-markles-statement-triggers-internal-police-investigation-amid-disturbing-allegations-against-her-father%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2690358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Explosive child porn allegations unveiled Thursday might have solved an eight-year mystery about the estrangement of the U.K.\u2019s Duchess of Sussex from her globe-trotting father.<\/p>\n<p>But with the American actress formerly known as Meghan Markle, little has been simple since she married into the British royal family.<\/p>\n<p>And her statement about her father on Friday has sparked an investigation all its own by London police.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meghan Markle\u2019s father, Thomas Markle, is reportedly under investigation after alleged child sexual abuse images were discovered among his belongings in the Philippines. According to reports, his son, Thomas Markle Jr., discovered the material while searching for a mobile phone, with the alleged content reportedly numbering \u201chundreds, if not thousands\u201d of images. Meghan has since released a statement expressing her distress over the allegations, saying her thoughts are with any children who may have been harmed. The allegations have not been proven in court, and Thomas Markle has not been charged at this time. #TSBNews #TSB<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheShadeBorough (@theshadeborough) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theshadeborough\/status\/2113594929234538843?\">October 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the U.K.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/40779535\/thomas-markle-investigated-probe-stash-child-sex-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sun<\/a> tabloid reported that Meghan\u2019s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., 60, reported to police in the Philippines that he\u2019d found huge caches of child pornography on computers and phones belonging to his father, Thomas Markle Sr.<\/p>\n<p>Markle Sr., 82, has strenuously denied the images belonged to him, according to the U.K.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-16233439\/Met-Police-letter-Meghan-father-Thomas-Markle.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=social-twitter_mailonline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>, arguing the computers had been out of his possession since he\u2019d moved to the Philippines from Mexico at the beginning of 2025, and that anything on them could have been placed without his knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>His eldest daughter, meanwhile, told the Daily Mail that Markle Jr. is \u201cmaking up lies\u201d about his father for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Whenever Tom is short of cash he makes up lies and sells stories because it\u2019s easy money,\u201d Samantha Markle told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>As murky and messy as the whole story is \u2014 as of Friday, Markle Sr. had not been charged with any crimes \u2014 it\u2019s a statement from Meghan herself that might be the most mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>In it, the wife of Britain\u2019s Prince Harry declared that in 2018, she had received a letter via London\u2019s Metropolitan Police and its unit for protection of royalty that contained \u201ctroubling and disturbing allegations against my father.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING \u2013 A statement from the Duchess of Sussex on allegations surrounding her father Thomas Markle \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc https:\/\/t.co\/mMa5vNbqc2<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roya Nikkhah (@RoyaNikkhah) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoyaNikkhah\/status\/2113564837762478587?\">October 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While she did not describe the allegations, she did hint that her distance from her father going back to her 2018 wedding was related to the letter, rather than her father\u2019s behavior before the ceremony and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/8396792\/meghan-markle-letter-read-dad-thomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clearly troubled relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was apparently received in the summer of that year, after Meghan and Harry had married in May, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the wedding, Thomas Markle Sr. was <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/GMA\/Culture\/meghan-markles-dad-accused-staging-photos-paparazzi\/story?id=55144447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused of staging photos<\/a> for celebrity journalists in the Mexican city, where he was living at the time. Amid the publicity, and a heart attack potentially related to it, he did not attend the Meghan-Harry wedding in London. Then-Prince Charles ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/prince-charles-steps-in-to-walk-meghan-markle-down-aisle-after-her-father-backs-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving away the bride<\/a> to his own son.<\/p>\n<p>The two have not been together since, though Meghan is known to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/meghan-markle-mail-sunday-trial-father-thomas-markle-1500014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked the Daily Mail<\/a> in 2020 for \u201cpublic shaming\u201d of her father that caused him to miss her wedding.<\/p>\n<p>She also managed to write to him after his latest round of medical problems, as <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/meghan-markle-gets-letter-to-father-thomas-markle-in-hospital-after-emergency-leg-amputation-11865734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People magazine<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Her statement on Friday casts her father in a new and much more sinister light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply distressed at the news that has come to light in the last 24 hours, and my thoughts are with any children who may have been harmed,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications\u2019 distortion over the years, any distance from my father and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children was for one reason: to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry and Meghan have <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-meghan-markle-prince-harry-kids-11682385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two children<\/a>:\u00a0A son, born in 2019, and a daughter, born in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily Mail, Meghan\u2019s statement has set off its own investigation among London police, who appeared to be taken unawares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of media reports that officers from the Met\u2019s Royalty and Specialist Protection Command were involved in the passing on of a letter in 2018,\u201d the department said in a statement, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are undertaking enquiries internally in an effort to confirm this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Markle Sr. is not now and has not been under investigation by the London police, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, if Thomas Markle Jr.\u2019s account is correct, the pornographic images would not fall under any U.K. police department\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>Markle Jr. claims to have discovered the images in a home where his father had lived in Cebu, the Philippines. Markle Sr. left the Philippines after surgery in December 2025 left him with an amputated leg. He is now living in a Florida rehabilitation center, learning to live with a prosthetic limb, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Daily Mail, the U.S. Department of Justice and Philippine authorities are investigating the child pornography allegations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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