Overview
- A spokesperson confirmed a handwritten letter from the Duchess of Sussex has been delivered to Thomas Markle in his Cebu hospital.
- The statement blamed the difficulty of earlier outreach on a Daily Mail reporter stationed at his bedside, saying it hindered private communication.
- DMG Media said its journalist is there with Thomas Markle’s consent, that his phone number is unchanged, and that they offered to help facilitate contact.
- Thomas Markle, 81, is recovering after a below‑knee amputation following a large blood clot and necrosis, and he has been moved from intensive care to a regular room, according to reports.
- Meghan had tried emailing an inactive address on Dec. 5 and called hospitals without a working phone number for her father, against a backdrop of a seven‑year estrangement and her prior privacy case over a previously leaked letter.