Two years after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding was plagued with family drama, the couple’s text messages to her father, Thomas Markle, have been released.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ on Monday, April 20, the 35-year-old prince reached out to Thomas, 75, repeatedly after the former lighting director was caught staging photos with the paparazzi ahead of their May 2018 nuptials. “Tom, it’s Harry and I’m going to call you right now. Please pick up, thank you,” one of the messages reads, per the docs.
In a second text, Harry urged Thomas to stop speaking to the press about the situation. “Tom, Harry again! Really need to speak to u,” Harry wrote. “U do not need to apologize, we understand the circumstances but ‘going public’ will only make the situation worse. If u love Meg and want to make it right please call me as there are two other options which don’t involve u having to speak to the media, who incidentally created this whole situation. So please call me so I can explain. Meg and I are not angry, we just need to speak to u. Thanks.”
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