Did she lie?

Meghan Markle's father reveals secret text messages

Created: 2022-12-15, 6:38 p.m

By: Annemarie Goebbel

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry enter a new round of arguments with Meghan's father Thomas in their Netflix documentary.

Now the Duchess presents her text message and explains exactly how she found out that her father left her at her wedding and the drama unfolded.

MONTECITO – Meghan Markles, 41, and Prince Harry, 38, have launched their navel-gazing project in the form of a controversial Netflix documentary, in which they finally offer their take on what happened leading up to the departure from the crown.

In part three, Meghan surprisingly warms up the story that made headlines at the Sussexes' wedding: her father Thomas Markle (78) did not come to the dream marriage in London.

Allegedly, Meghan had heard about it from the media.

A media battle followed and an ice age that continues to this day.

Meghan explains her situation as a bride in the documentary

As for the drama that unfolded in the days leading up to her wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018, the daughter says they found out about it through website

.

Her father, meanwhile, posed for staged paparazzi photos that he sold to the press at a high price, and then suffered two heart attacks that prevented him from walking her down the aisle.

There were also text messages from her father, which Meghan found extremely suspicious.

Meghan's face looks rigid when she talks about her father Thomas Markle in the Netflix documentary.

Who is lying, who is right?

The picture shows Thomas Markle during an interview with Channel 5. © picture alliance/dpa/Alaska TV/Channel 5 & netflix.com

Meghan says on the Netflix show: "It was really strange.

You know how people text, right?

My dad used a lot of emoji and a lot of ellipses and dot, dot, dot, and this was the complete opposite.

And he called me Meghan.

I was like, 'He's never called me Meghan since I've been on this planet.'

Meg, all my friends call me Meg and my parents call me Meg and I was like, 'That's not my dad.'"

Both Meghan and father Markle present their non-identical texting traffic

Retired Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle claims the complete opposite in the

.

He shows the SMS that shows he wrote Meghan three days before their wedding: He reports that the doctors advised him not to fly, but he offered to come anyway.

He apologized for the paparazzi story.

Meghan Markle: Her transformation from series star to Duchess of Sussex

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Meghan reveals on the Netflix show that she texted Thomas back and called at least 20 times.

"I've been trying to reach you all weekend but you won't take our calls or reply to any texts...Do you need help?...Which hospital are you in?" At the end of the episode, Prince Harry gives it to himself Blame for the "incredibly sad" turn of events and the line between Meghan and her dad: "Of course it's incredibly sad what happened." As a viewer, you always imagine the two children Archie (3) and Lilibet ( 1) will watch the drama later - maybe it almost doesn't matter who said what.