OVERSTEPPING THE MARKLE...
“ANY suggestion we have ‘puppeteered’ Mr Markle is strongly denied,” read a statement from
Mail on Sunday
publisher DMG Media last weekend, after it and the communications team for the Duchess of Sussex had put out strikingly different accounts of her attempt to contact her estranged father, who is in hospital in the Philippines after surgery to remove one of his legs below the knee.
American magazine People – one of the Sussexes’ favoured media outlets for briefings about how awful the media are – reported on 5 December that Meghan had “reached out to her father”, only for the Mail on Sunday to splash two days later with what it said was a “world exclusive interview” with 81-year-old Thomas Markle claiming he “STILL hasn’t had call he longs for” and was pleading for her to “see me one more time before I die”.