Meghan Markle’s estranged father, Tom, has revealed that he is planning a ‘fresh start’ abroad in 2025 in the hope he can live out his final years ‘in peace’ via Daily Mail.
In a particularly poignant announcement this week – as his daughter launched her glossy new Netflix lifestyle show: With Love, Meghan – Mr. Markle, said Sunday he has decided to up sticks and leave the cliffside house in Mexico he has called home for ten years.
Mr. Markle has suffered two heart attacks and a stroke in recent years, and says his decision to seek a new life abroad is because he is seeking ‘peace’ and ‘kinder people’.
‘I was with Mr Markle this week as he packed up a lifetime of memories. We drank PG Tips and ate endless mince pies as he sorted his possessions into packing boxes and burned those things he did not wish to keep.’
Here were Meghan’s school reports describing her as a child who ‘demonstrates constant effort and is active in classroom discussions’ – dog-eared documents he first received when she was nine years old, which he has treasured all these years.
There were endless photographs of Meghan feeding the ducks with her dad, playing crazy golf, and laughing during fishing trips to a neighboring lake.
The images could have come from any happy family album, something which struck me as particularly sad overseeing Mr. Markle pack up the only memories he now has of his youngest child – the ‘baby’ he affectionately called ‘Megsy’, who he would cradle in his arm and rock to sleep to the sound of the rumbling fridge.
Each photograph was carefully placed in a plastic bag for protection and then put into boxes for the long journey to wherever life may next take him.
When I tell him he is ‘brave’ to start anew at 80 years old he shrugs, smiles and says: ‘I don’t know if brave is the word.
‘I am ready for a change. I have felt stuck in a rut for some time and I am ready to meet new people and experience kindness.’
