MEGHAN Markle’s family WON’T be sending her 40th birthday presents due to the ongoing painful rift with her dad, a royal author claims.
“Sincere family love, wishing her another 40 healthy years, will be limited to her mother, the permanently silent Doria,” adds Tom Bower.
The Duchess of Sussex celebrates her 40th birthday tomorrow, but it’s feared that her birthday party guest list will snub the Markle family – including her estranged dad.
Thomas recently revealed that he no longer even has his daughter’s phone number.
The shunned dad has not had any contact with his duchess daughter for three years, and he has never met her husband Harry, or their two tots, Archie and Lilibet.
The retiree was leading a quiet life in Mexico when he was thrust into the spotlight after Meghan married into the Royal Family in 2018.
They dramatically fell out after he set up paparazzi snaps of himself getting fitted for a suit and reading articles about his daughter in the lead up to the Royal Wedding.
Tom Bower, who is currently writing a tell-all book on the duchess, said he expected there to be a party to celebrate her turning 40 on Wednesday, June 4.
He said: “The Sussexes’ celebrity neighbours, agents, lawyers and PR spin doctors will flock to their Montecito haven.
“But there will be no birthday cards from Meghan’s father and siblings, nor probably from her in-laws in London.
“There will certainly be no adoring congratulations from the small army of former friends the Duchess has shunned over the past 15 years, including her ex-husband, childhood confidants and discarded London associates.”
He predicted that “sincere family love, wishing her another 40 healthy years, will be limited to her mother, the permanently silent Doria.
“Yet Meghan probably won’t care a jot.
“Self-important Meghan seems to believe her needs are more important than those of others — most famously her father Thomas Markle.
“America and Britain are dotted with people baffled by her abrupt termination of their previously close relationship.”
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Mr Bower said that “Meghan appears to show little remorse about hurting” her dad.
His comments come days after Thomas vowed to take Meghan and Prince Harry to court so he can finally meet his grandchildren.
Speaking from his home in Rosarito, Mexico – 240 miles from the couple’s £11million mansion – Thomas said “I will be petitioning the California courts for the rights to see my grandchildren in the very near future.”
And American model Caprice, 49, told the Sun Online: “Mr Markle has a right to petition the Court of California for access to his grandchildren.”
Thomas missed the Sussexes’ nuptials at St George’s Chapel at Windsor after undergoing heart surgery.
And the grandfather has since told of his devastation that he has not been able to speak with his daughter – and that he has yet to meet Harry and their kids.
The former lighting director, 76, told 60 Minutes: “I’m still waiting for them to get to me. I had tried early on to contact them and never got through.
“At this point I don’t know their number.”
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Thomas added that he had left a letter for Oprah Winfrey, asking for a “chance to tell my story” after Harry and Meghan made explosive allegations to the TV host during a series of interviews.
But the retiree – who worked on iconic US shows including Married with Children and General Hospital – said he never received a response to the letter.
He said: “I feel that Harry is being put in a position that he’s saying things he will never be able to take back.
“I wish Harry and Meghan and Archie and my new granddaughter all the love and best wishes in the world.”
Mr Bower said that Meghan‘s birthday celebration “will also be a curtain-raiser to the bruises and bloodshed that will inevitably follow next year’s publication of Harry’s memoir.
“The stress and ugliness of that battle could threaten the Queen’s health, Charles’s reign and the fate of the Windsors.
“At 40, Meghan is certainly making her mark.”
