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‘Support your Dad’: Thomas Markle Jr slams Meghan Markle for Ulvade memorial 'publicity stunt'

Thomas Markle Jr, the Dutchess' half-sibling, felt Meghan Markle's visit to the scene of the Texas school shooting was merely a 'publicity stunt'

Meghan Markle's fraught relationship with Thomas Markle Jr along with the rest of her half siblings and her dad has been well publicised. The on-going feud was back in the public eye after the unexpected visit of the Duchess of Sussex to the memorial site in Ulvade, Texas. The surprise visit covered by the media did not go down well with Meghan's half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr. He said, “It’s the most insensitive, inconsiderate thing I've seen in my life.”

The 40-year-old Duchess of Sussex came down to Uvalde on May 26 to pay her tribute to the 19 children and 2 teachers who were brutally killed in a mass shooting. But she has failed to visit her father following his stroke that was caused by a blood clot on the right side of his brain. Her half-sibling called her visit to the scene of fatal Texas School shooting "a publicity stunt. He further added, “I don’t know what her agenda is, but she’s dead wrong. That little walk she took like she was on a stage? She’s just trying to make herself look better.”

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Speaking to Dan Wootton on GB News, the 55-year-old Thomas Jr said, "My dad is here, in the room with me. He wants to say that he was very much looking forward to attending the Jubilee celebrations. He really wanted to be there and he sends the Queen his best regards." He then urged Meghan to help her father, saying, “If you want to spread some love and support for my dad, step in and by all means give some support.”

As reported earlier this week, the Duchess was trying to reach out and end the four-year break with her estranged father, but was concerned about the involvement of her half-siblings Thomas Jr and Samantha.

Asking the same, Wootton questioned if the reports that Meghan had contacted her father were true, Thomas said, ‘She has made no attempt at all to contact. She still has the same phone number that she always has. She has had every opportunity to communicate. She is only three or four hours away. How many days late is she now? She needs to find out who she is as a person.”

As per reports, Meghan Markle had contacted Thomas Markle’s camp after he had left hospital after five days of treatment for a stroke. Her estranged father was taken to a hospital near his home in Rosarito, Mexico, before being taken by ambulance to the US border.