How Doria & Thomas Markle’s parenting shaped Meghan: They gave into everything she wanted; says royal author

For Thomas Markle, when Meghan was born it was ‘love at first sight’. Though for Doria, Meghan is her first and only child. But for Thomas who was a lighting director had two kids from his previous marriage.

How Meghan Markle was pampered by her father?

According to reports published in Daily Mail, ‘While Thomas endlessly photographed his daughter, he agreed with Doria that baby Meghan should get everything she wanted.’ ‘The look on his face was priceless,’ recalled Tom Junior, Thomas’s eldest child.

“My dad was more in love with her than anyone else in the world, and that included Doria. She became his whole world, his little Princess.”

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A BBC journalist mentioned, ‘Even as a baby, any signs of displeasure should instantly be placated with gifts. She was a literally worshipped by her parents and was always made to feel special.

Meghan Markle relationship with her mother Doria

The Daily Mail report further said that Doria instilled a powerful message in her daughter from a young age. Her motto was: ‘don’t give the milk away for free’ – or don’t do anything for nothing.’

Even Harry described his future mother-in-law as ‘amazing’ in a BBC interview to coincide with his engagement, and when baby Archie was born, Doria spent six weeks living with Harry and Meghan at Frogmore Cottage as they adjusted to parenthood. Doris was the only person invited from Meghan’s side for the wedding.

How Meghan’s relationship with her father got strained?

Over the years, Meghan and Thomas’s relationship came under strain, but it broke off entirely when he was found to have arranged pictures with paparazzi in the lead-up to the royal wedding in May 2018.

According to AFP report, Meghan’s estranged father on Tuesday (March 9) suggested that his daughter exaggerated racism in the British royal family during her interview with US chat show host  Oprah Winfrey . Thomas Markle told ITV the couple’s two-hour chat with Winfrey was “way over the top” and suggested a royal family member could have asked a “dumb question” about her future baby’s skin colour. The 76-year-old Emmy-winning former lighting director was interviewed from his home in Mexico by one of Meghan’s most vehement critics, the former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan. “They (Harry and Meghan) went way over the top with these stories with Oprah and should have waited, considering the Queen’s age and Philip’s age,” he said of the CBS show broadcast on Sunday. Harry’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth II is 94 and her husband Prince Philip is 99 and currently in hospital recovering from a heart operation. He played down Meghan and Harry’s comments that an unnamed royal family member had asked how dark her baby’s skin would be.

According to Bower claimed that Meghan loved glamour and celebrity, using her father’s connections in Hollywood to launch her teenage career.

‘I want to be an actress, ’ she kept saying, according to the book. Thomas even took Meghan to the Emmy awards ceremony when he was nominated for best lighting director.

After they walked down the red carpet, the 17-year-old said, ‘Daddy, I want to be famous just like you one day.’ Thomas nodded and went on to do everything to help make that dream come true, according to Bower.

How Meghan misrepresented her childhood?

Speaking to Hollywood actress Mindy Kaling on the second episode, Meghan said she spent time on her own as a child because her parents were working.

She told Mindy: ‘I grew up with a lot of fast food and also a lot of TV tray dinners. But the truth was far from this, Thomas said he would personally pick Meghan up every day from school, or send a car to fetch her if he was too busy.

(With inputs from AFP and Daily Mail)