Meghan looks to the left of frame while sat onstage with blue and black background behind her, at SXSW in Austin in 2024.Image source, Getty Images
ByJonny DymondRoyal correspondent
  • Published46 minutes ago

Before today's allegations and the statement from the Duchess of Sussex there was not much at all between Meghan and her father.

Quite when the duchess last saw her father Thomas isn't clear. By the time her engagement was announced in 2017, a once-close relationship had cooled.

He had moved to Mexico following his retirement in the US and then, as he spoke freely to the media before and after her 2018 wedding, the relationship went into the deep freeze.