Meghan Markle's Father Frames Her as Bad Mother in New Attack on Daughter

Meghan Markle's father said it "really bothers" him that the duchess left her baby daughter Lilibet in America during a visit to Europe.

In a new interview broadcast on Monday, Thomas Markle also vowed to travel to Britain for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee despite acknowledging the move would make it less likely that Meghan and Prince Harry would attend.

And he criticized his daughter for not bringing children Lilibet, 10 months old, and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, 3 in May, with them on a recent trip to Europe for the Invictus Games.

Meghan and Harry stopped off in Britain on the way to the tournament, in the Netherlands, and would have had the chance to introduce the children to the queen for the first time.

Markle Sr. told GB News: "To fly all the way over and not bring the children. That's ridiculous. Most mothers don't leave a 9-month-old child behind.

"They usually hold on to that child until the child gets a little older. That's one thing that really bothers me."

The queen and Prince Philip once famously left Prince Charles and Princess Anne in Britain for six months from November 1953 to May 1954 during a royal tour of the Commonwealth. Charles was 5 and Anne was 3 at the time.

Thomas Markle's own parenting has been criticized in the past after he vowed to do an interview every month until Meghan agreed to speak to him again.

Mario Falcone, a U.K. reality TV star, described him as "quite possibly the worst dad in the world" in March 2021, The Independent reported.

And Nazir Afzal, former chief crown prosecutor for North West England, wrote at the time: "This is BLACKMAIL. Thomas Markle's threat to continue to go to the press every 30 days—after having sold her letter previously."

Meghan and Markle Sr.'s relationship never recovered from a falling out in the days before her royal wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018.

He was due to walk his daughter down the aisle at St George's Chapel until he was outed as having staged paparazzi pictures for money.

Markle Sr. said he was admitted to the hospital with a heart attack and revealed through TMZ that he would not make the ceremony in Windsor Castle, leaving Prince Charles to walk her down the aisle.

Father and daughter have reportedly not spoken since.

Markle Sr. made the remarks as he announced his intention to come to Britain during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, marking 70 years of her reign, in June.

He said: "I'm going to show my respects for the queen and I'm going to make sure the queen understands that my entire family respects the queen and the royals and we admire them. We want them to know that's how we feel about them and that's how we feel about England.

"I really would like to meet with Prince Charles and thank him for walking my daughter down the aisle and also just to meet and talk with him because I think we have a lot in common now. We've pretty much both been ghosted by our children.

"So yeah, I would really enjoy talking to him. If that's possible, that would be great."

He also conceded that his own presence in London during the four days of festivities in June might make it less likely Harry and Meghan would themselves be present for the jubilee.

Markle Sr. said: "I'm getting the feeling that if they know I'm coming they won't be coming. But if they do come I would love to reach out and speak with them and try to figure out what went wrong and how we can repair it. I don't see that happening but I certainly would like to try."

Harry is suing the U.K. government for removing his police protection during visits to Britain. His legal representative said in January that it is not safe for him to return to the country without it.

In an NBC interview this April, the duke was asked whether he would attend the jubilee.

He said: "I don't know yet. There's lots of things with security issues and everything else. This is what I'm trying to do, trying to make it possible that I can get my kids to meet her."

Markle Sr. told GB News: "I think it's ridiculous. He knows how much security they're going to have [at the Jubilee]. He's totally safe in that situation. He's going off to the [Invictus] Games which would be far less safe for him than the Jubilee. I don't understand half the things he says. I have so little respect for that man. I think he's an idiot."