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Speaker 1: Hey there folks, it is Monday, October 26th, and if we thought the stuff that was coming out about Meghan Markle's dad was bad before, things just got worse. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Rolls. I say it gets worse, he hasn't been found guilty of anything, but the more and more details that are coming out and some of the language being used by the authorities in the Robes, this story is really taking a turn.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this is escalating, I think it's fair to say. And you're right, he has not been charged, we say yet. But the Philippine authorities have made several comments among them that they feel like they will have what they need at least a week from now. They were kind of giving a timeline as to when we might expect charges. And also some big headlines coming out over the weekend that Megan wrote a letter to her dad last December, so December of 2025, as he was recovering in the hospital from having his leg amputated. And where she reportedly spelled.
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Speaker 3: Out, I know you are an abuser and you will never see your grandkids.
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Speaker 1: Brooks, there is so much here. And there's another letter we're going to be mentioning here that came apparently from his First ex-wife in which she laid things out to authorities. Robes, there is a lot happening here. And actually, where do you even want to start with this? Because there are several elements now new to this story that are going to cause people, Robes, to ask questions of police. Sure, Meghan Markle is going to get a few questions coming her way as well. Because it seems, at least, Robes, almost a year ago, she knew for sure this guy. Or at least suspected that.
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Speaker 2: Yes. No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: She wrote a letter saying we are done with our relationship based on what she knew about him.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 2: The Sun is reporting that, yes, again, this letter they said she sent December of 2025. They claim that, yes, in this letter... She accuses him of sexually abusing children. We're not even just talking about possessing child pornography or any sort of explicit images. She flat out accuses him of sexually abusing young girls.
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Speaker 3: Apparently, this is according to The Sun, she.
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Speaker 2: Had the staff at the hospital take the letter to his bedside and video it. That exchange happening and reportedly had him sign a letter or a form confirming he had received her letter, which she said would be her final bit of correspondence to him ever. And notably that he would never, ever meet her children.
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Speaker 1: What did she know, babe, that she was sure enough about to cut off all contact for the rest of her life with this man? What did she know that police couldn't move on?
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Speaker 2: Which is so interesting because obviously her half-brother, up until finding what he claims was a trove of damning images and videos from his father's home, up until that discovery, he had been solidly team Thomas Markle Sr.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 2: What did she know that he somehow didn't believe or wasn't aware of? It's just interesting that she was so resolute in her reaction to what she heard described versus his son until now.
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Speaker 1: Who was closer to him.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 1: How would she be in possession of that and know it so certainly? She doesn't have any relationship with the guy, but the guy, the son that's living with him, Well, this doesn't make sense. Her original statement also, I have questions about. She didn't mention this. She didn't mention this letter. She didn't mention what she was aware of. She mentioned something back in 2018, 2019. She didn't mention this part of the story.
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Speaker 2: Yes. And a lot of people are calling into question with their, and I say their, I mean, Meghan and Harry's readiness to overshare, to defend themselves.
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Speaker 3: They'll point the finger at the royal family. They'll talk about.
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Speaker 2: Any racism that they may have experienced at the hands of them. And yet somehow this just was omitted.
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Speaker 1: Okay. You make a good point. Okay, fine. You make a good point. Okay. I know they get it left and right. They can do no right quite frankly usually you're damned if you do damned if you don't but there are certain things they ask for there are certain things that they feel like people a way they should be behaving and robes they go against it in some of their behavior on this one rope she withheld some information she has every right to do what she wants to do but man when you're trying to get back in good graces when you this is a mess.
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Speaker 2: This is tough, when you overshare on certain things, aren't as transparent about others, and then try to say, but wait, yeah, I knew, but according to her people, she didn't feel comfortable Speaking out about this because it was an active, or at least she thought it was an active investigation, and she didn't want to do anything to disrupt said investigation.
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Speaker 1: As late as last year.
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Speaker 2: Yes, or make accusations publicly that she couldn't prove. So that was the defense on her not being outspoken specifically about this.
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Speaker 1: Rose, she is sure that there was a man hurting children. Now.
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Speaker 3: Sounds like it.
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Speaker 1: I understand. it's supposed to be in their hands, but Robes, that is how, how can you not? I don't know. Robes, maybe they said we got it and she reported it all. She told them everything she knew, but for a public trying to find a way, you know, it's not a public trying to find a way to embrace her again. I think she's probably trying to find a way to be embraced. Robes, this doesn't look good.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't.
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say it's the end of the world. She did something terribly wrong and it, Maybe her hands were tied, but it doesn't look good.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Now, London Metropolitan Police, we should say, did confirm, because we remember on Friday, Megan said that she received a letter. She said it was in 2018. The police said it was actually January of 2019, and they didn't mean to point out the misinformation, but they said it was understandable that she might have misspoke or at least had a couple months. She was a couple months off, basically, from when she thought she was shown this letter. versus their records that show that they did, in fact, show her a letter in January of 2019 that contained, quote, a number of claims about alleged offending outside the United Kingdom.
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Speaker 3: That's how they reported it. Now, according to a lot of reports.
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Speaker 1: You said alleged offending outside. So they got a letter that said he was up to something, but not within there. In the UK.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Correct. So that's their defense, potentially, of themselves. And by the way.
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Speaker 2: They did say that they fully acknowledged they did not share the allegations with other law enforcement agencies. They only shared it with Harry and Meghan. They didn't show it to other law enforcement agencies. And so now because of public outcry, the Metropolitan Police say they are reviewing how it handled the matter and they are considering referring itself to to a police watch drop group called the Independent Office for Police Conduct. But they're basically publicly acknowledging that they probably screwed up in not passing this information that children were being harmed potentially by Meghan Markle's father. They didn't alert authorities. in the area where this may have been occurring.
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Speaker 1: Do we know where it was?
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Speaker 3: I think it was the Philippines.
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Speaker 1: It was the Philippines.
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Speaker 3: Yes. And so, look, Thomas Markle Sr.
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Speaker 2: 's first wife, this is the woman he married before Meghan Markle's mom. This was the mom of the half-siblings, Thomas Markle Jr.
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Speaker 3: And her half-sister.
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Speaker 2: They were married for about 11 years, I believe. She's the one who reportedly sent that letter detailing the allegations of, about Thomas Markle Sr. that made its way to London's Metropolitan Police. She is reportedly the author of those allegations.
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Speaker 1: Then who knows what she knew, what she saw, but she felt strongly enough to report it.
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Speaker 2: Correct?
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Speaker 1: All right. And the police do nothing about it.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 1: All right. They don't even share it with another agency.
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Speaker 3: They just shared it with Meghan and Harry for whatever reason. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 2: They said they were worried about her safety, that somehow this information could impact her safety or maybe somehow impact the royal family.
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Speaker 1: This is getting worse.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Okay, as you're talking, this thing is getting worse. Possibly, we, to protect the royal family or to protect Meghan Markle, we let a monster stay loose.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And didn't want to make anything of it.
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Speaker 3: Kind of what it sounds like.
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Speaker 1: They're going to, man, everybody's got answers.
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Speaker 2: And look, couple that with what the Philippine interior minister is now publicly saying. I'm going to quote him directly because, and we've seen the pictures.
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Speaker 3: They are literally.
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Speaker 2: Taking out the biggest boxes ever. Like it must be, I don't know, when you're moving the extra, extra large box filled with what seems to be, or they say is evidence evidence. that they are putting into police trucks coming out of Thomas Markle Sr.
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Speaker 3: 's home in the Philippines.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to, because you hear boxes found in a closet, family pictures or whatever. You have a an idea in your head of picking up a box yourself and opening it up no no no this required two men to carry a huge one of these boxes one person can't carry these are huge robes what the hell This is years of collecting stuff, if it's what they say it is.
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Speaker 3: Almost certainly. Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: So this is what the quote from the interior minister was. In these cases where family disputes are mixed up, we have to consider all the angles. Right now, all signs point to a possible sex offender of the grossest kind. We want to be sure before we release the findings, the forensics data will be complete in a week. So that was over the weekend. So it seems like within days, we should be getting some answers. And I believe the reason why he made that initial first statement was because we have heard from Thomas Markle Sr., who's talking to some tabloid outlets, trying to point the finger at his son saying, hey, these weren't in my possession anytime recently. Who knows who all of this stuff may or may not belong to? So yes, the interior minister is saying we have to figure out basically who owned what. But According to some of these reports, there is a video with Thomas Markle senior in the video.
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Speaker 3: So that would be irrefutable.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: This is some nasty, awful stuff.
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Speaker 2: And look, um, she, and, and Megan like to know that she felt so resolute that she sent him this letter that she wanted receipt that he had received it, that he would never hear from her again. that he would never meet his grandchildren, and yet she said nothing to anyone about it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what responsibility she might have. That first statement was difficult, Robes, the one she put out where she says, I'm not having a relationship with him because I want to protect my kids. That statement is difficult when you think about the other kids. There are other kids. There are potential children. Your kids were safe. I'm just saying how this is going to play. I'm not mad at her and these family dynamics and everything else. But, man, police have got to answer some questions, babe. And the way she has talked, she has to, baby.
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Speaker 3: She does. And police do.
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Speaker 2: I think you can tell they're already feeling the heat, that they recognize that they are now being questioned. fairly scrutinized for literally dropping the ball or saying, not our problem, didn't happen here in the UK, not our responsibility.
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Speaker 1: Is that what they're going with?
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Speaker 2: Well, that is kind of how they've worded it, that it was from allegations outside of the UK. When we come back, there was some really interesting words that Thomas Markle Jr. had to say to Meghan Markle publicly. These two have been estranged for years. And this was a full-blown apology to his half-sister. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. Some pretty big developments over the weekend in the Thomas Markle Sr.
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Speaker 3: Saga.
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Speaker 2: Philippine police are investigating him. The FBI, we should mention as well. is monitoring the situation, assisting Philippine officials, and say that, yes, they are now currently looking into whether or not Thomas Markle Sr. may have had any criminal activity here in the United States. So there are full-blown investigations going on, and the UK police are trying to say we may have to investigate ourselves because perhaps we dropped the ball.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people.
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Speaker 2: issuing statements, but among them, Thomas Markle Jr. And he had something to say to his half-sister.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of this. Does it seem heartfelt, sincere here? Is it, I don't know. That's the only way possibly to get a message to her. He's not in contact with her, but man, it's, I don't know. I don't know how he missed it. How could you miss it? There's And these aren't small boxes you can tuck away in a closet.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: How did he miss this?
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Speaker 3: He was living with him for the past four years. So that's hard to imagine. But this is what he said to Megan publicly. I'm so, so sorry, Megan.
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Speaker 2: I now know I have been protecting the wrong person for the past nine years. Having seen what I have seen, I believe the man I've been defending and caring for.
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Speaker 3: Is a monster.
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Speaker 2: I now know why you don't talk to him anymore and why you won't let him meet Harry or his grandchildren. I am ashamed that I spent years taking his side when you fell out with him. I know we're not close, but I can still remember holding you when you were a baby and looking after you when you were small. Please accept my apology and know that I wish you and your family all the best for the future.
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Speaker 1: Nice enough. Simple as that. Let it be. I mean, he was wrong all this time. I just 60 years living with him for the last four. And why? How does he explain being in the Philippines?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: What was he doing there? Did he have a job? He just retired. Likes the Philippines.
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Speaker 3: Lower cost of living, maybe. 82 years old. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Head over to the Philippines.
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Speaker 2: Well, the SNL UK, this is their second year. They had a field day with this over the weekend. And it's funny you mentioned the Philippines because they actually took.
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Speaker 3: A shot at that.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, they do kind of like what we have here where they have like news headlines. So they had their broadcasters reading news headlines cheekily and it began in royal news. It's been a big 24 hours for Meghan Markle, whose dad has been accused of being an alleged pedophile in another pathetic attempt to win over the British public.
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Speaker 3: People laugh.
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Speaker 2: In 2025, Thomas Markle moved to the Philippines in a sure sign of his innocence.
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Speaker 1: Whoa.
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Speaker 3: And then the final doozy.
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Speaker 2: If the allegations about Meghan Markle's father are true and he is a pedophile, there is a genuine chance Meghan could be considered royal.
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Speaker 3: That's a big shot at Prince Andrew or the person who was formerly known as Prince Andrew. Yes, they had some fun with it over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: I want her to come back to America. Come home, Meghan. It's been a disaster. It's been what? Month and a half.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my God. It's been six weeks.
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Speaker 1: Brobes, as soon as we started, it was one of the first things we said. Worried about her. Couldn't have predicted this. But no, the stuff we're talking about is just how she might make a misstep in public or say something. It gets scrutinized. Brobes, the kids in school, the gentleman acting gig that she had and then didn't have. You're a pedophile, daddy.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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Speaker 1: Come on, come on. Head on back to Montecito. Just go on back to Southern California.
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Speaker 3: They did keep the house, so they always have that option.
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Speaker 1: They still got the studio. She can fire up that From Megan With Love show again that you know I like.
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Speaker 3: Well, we know this isn't going away anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: And again, once charges, and it does seem like that is where this is headed, are filed, it will just be the beginning.
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Speaker 3: But we will stay on top of it. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach, alongside DJ Holmes.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there folks, it is Monday, October 26th, and if we thought the stuff that was coming out about Meghan Markle's dad was bad before, things just got worse. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Rolls. I say it gets worse, he hasn't been found guilty of anything, but the more and more details that are coming out and some of the language being used by the authorities in the Robes, this story is really taking a turn.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this is escalating, I think it's fair to say. And you're right, he has not been charged, we say yet. But the Philippine authorities have made several comments among them that they feel like they will have what they need at least a week from now. They were kind of giving a timeline as to when we might expect charges. And also some big headlines coming out over the weekend that Megan wrote a letter to her dad last December, so December of 2025, as he was recovering in the hospital from having his leg amputated. And where she reportedly spelled.
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Speaker 3: Out, I know you are an abuser and you will never see your grandkids.
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Speaker 1: Brooks, there is so much here. And there's another letter we're going to be mentioning here that came apparently from his First ex-wife in which she laid things out to authorities. Robes, there is a lot happening here. And actually, where do you even want to start with this? Because there are several elements now new to this story that are going to cause people, Robes, to ask questions of police. Sure, Meghan Markle is going to get a few questions coming her way as well. Because it seems, at least, Robes, almost a year ago, she knew for sure this guy. Or at least suspected that.
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Speaker 2: Yes. No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: She wrote a letter saying we are done with our relationship based on what she knew about him.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 2: The Sun is reporting that, yes, again, this letter they said she sent December of 2025. They claim that, yes, in this letter... She accuses him of sexually abusing children. We're not even just talking about possessing child pornography or any sort of explicit images. She flat out accuses him of sexually abusing young girls.
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Speaker 3: Apparently, this is according to The Sun, she.
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Speaker 2: Had the staff at the hospital take the letter to his bedside and video it. That exchange happening and reportedly had him sign a letter or a form confirming he had received her letter, which she said would be her final bit of correspondence to him ever. And notably that he would never, ever meet her children.
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Speaker 1: What did she know, babe, that she was sure enough about to cut off all contact for the rest of her life with this man? What did she know that police couldn't move on?
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Speaker 2: Which is so interesting because obviously her half-brother, up until finding what he claims was a trove of damning images and videos from his father's home, up until that discovery, he had been solidly team Thomas Markle Sr.
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 2: What did she know that he somehow didn't believe or wasn't aware of? It's just interesting that she was so resolute in her reaction to what she heard described versus his son until now.
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Speaker 1: Who was closer to him.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 1: How would she be in possession of that and know it so certainly? She doesn't have any relationship with the guy, but the guy, the son that's living with him, Well, this doesn't make sense. Her original statement also, I have questions about. She didn't mention this. She didn't mention this letter. She didn't mention what she was aware of. She mentioned something back in 2018, 2019. She didn't mention this part of the story.
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Speaker 2: Yes. And a lot of people are calling into question with their, and I say their, I mean, Meghan and Harry's readiness to overshare, to defend themselves.
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Speaker 3: They'll point the finger at the royal family. They'll talk about.
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Speaker 2: Any racism that they may have experienced at the hands of them. And yet somehow this just was omitted.
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Speaker 1: Okay. You make a good point. Okay, fine. You make a good point. Okay. I know they get it left and right. They can do no right quite frankly usually you're damned if you do damned if you don't but there are certain things they ask for there are certain things that they feel like people a way they should be behaving and robes they go against it in some of their behavior on this one rope she withheld some information she has every right to do what she wants to do but man when you're trying to get back in good graces when you this is a mess.
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Speaker 2: This is tough, when you overshare on certain things, aren't as transparent about others, and then try to say, but wait, yeah, I knew, but according to her people, she didn't feel comfortable Speaking out about this because it was an active, or at least she thought it was an active investigation, and she didn't want to do anything to disrupt said investigation.
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Speaker 1: As late as last year.
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Speaker 2: Yes, or make accusations publicly that she couldn't prove. So that was the defense on her not being outspoken specifically about this.
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Speaker 1: Rose, she is sure that there was a man hurting children. Now.
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Speaker 3: Sounds like it.
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Speaker 1: I understand. it's supposed to be in their hands, but Robes, that is how, how can you not? I don't know. Robes, maybe they said we got it and she reported it all. She told them everything she knew, but for a public trying to find a way, you know, it's not a public trying to find a way to embrace her again. I think she's probably trying to find a way to be embraced. Robes, this doesn't look good.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't.
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say it's the end of the world. She did something terribly wrong and it, Maybe her hands were tied, but it doesn't look good.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Now, London Metropolitan Police, we should say, did confirm, because we remember on Friday, Megan said that she received a letter. She said it was in 2018. The police said it was actually January of 2019, and they didn't mean to point out the misinformation, but they said it was understandable that she might have misspoke or at least had a couple months. She was a couple months off, basically, from when she thought she was shown this letter. versus their records that show that they did, in fact, show her a letter in January of 2019 that contained, quote, a number of claims about alleged offending outside the United Kingdom.
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Speaker 3: That's how they reported it. Now, according to a lot of reports.
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Speaker 1: You said alleged offending outside. So they got a letter that said he was up to something, but not within there. In the UK.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Correct. So that's their defense, potentially, of themselves. And by the way.
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Speaker 2: They did say that they fully acknowledged they did not share the allegations with other law enforcement agencies. They only shared it with Harry and Meghan. They didn't show it to other law enforcement agencies. And so now because of public outcry, the Metropolitan Police say they are reviewing how it handled the matter and they are considering referring itself to to a police watch drop group called the Independent Office for Police Conduct. But they're basically publicly acknowledging that they probably screwed up in not passing this information that children were being harmed potentially by Meghan Markle's father. They didn't alert authorities. in the area where this may have been occurring.
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Speaker 1: Do we know where it was?
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Speaker 3: I think it was the Philippines.
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Speaker 1: It was the Philippines.
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Speaker 3: Yes. And so, look, Thomas Markle Sr.
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Speaker 2: 's first wife, this is the woman he married before Meghan Markle's mom. This was the mom of the half-siblings, Thomas Markle Jr.
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Speaker 3: And her half-sister.
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Speaker 2: They were married for about 11 years, I believe. She's the one who reportedly sent that letter detailing the allegations of, about Thomas Markle Sr. that made its way to London's Metropolitan Police. She is reportedly the author of those allegations.
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Speaker 1: Then who knows what she knew, what she saw, but she felt strongly enough to report it.
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Speaker 2: Correct?
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Speaker 1: All right. And the police do nothing about it.
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Speaker 3: Correct.
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Speaker 1: All right. They don't even share it with another agency.
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Speaker 3: They just shared it with Meghan and Harry for whatever reason. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 2: They said they were worried about her safety, that somehow this information could impact her safety or maybe somehow impact the royal family.
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Speaker 1: This is getting worse.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Okay, as you're talking, this thing is getting worse. Possibly, we, to protect the royal family or to protect Meghan Markle, we let a monster stay loose.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And didn't want to make anything of it.
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Speaker 3: Kind of what it sounds like.
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Speaker 1: They're going to, man, everybody's got answers.
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Speaker 2: And look, couple that with what the Philippine interior minister is now publicly saying. I'm going to quote him directly because, and we've seen the pictures.
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Speaker 3: They are literally.
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Speaker 2: Taking out the biggest boxes ever. Like it must be, I don't know, when you're moving the extra, extra large box filled with what seems to be, or they say is evidence evidence. that they are putting into police trucks coming out of Thomas Markle Sr.
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Speaker 3: 's home in the Philippines.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to, because you hear boxes found in a closet, family pictures or whatever. You have a an idea in your head of picking up a box yourself and opening it up no no no this required two men to carry a huge one of these boxes one person can't carry these are huge robes what the hell This is years of collecting stuff, if it's what they say it is.
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Speaker 3: Almost certainly. Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: So this is what the quote from the interior minister was. In these cases where family disputes are mixed up, we have to consider all the angles. Right now, all signs point to a possible sex offender of the grossest kind. We want to be sure before we release the findings, the forensics data will be complete in a week. So that was over the weekend. So it seems like within days, we should be getting some answers. And I believe the reason why he made that initial first statement was because we have heard from Thomas Markle Sr., who's talking to some tabloid outlets, trying to point the finger at his son saying, hey, these weren't in my possession anytime recently. Who knows who all of this stuff may or may not belong to? So yes, the interior minister is saying we have to figure out basically who owned what. But According to some of these reports, there is a video with Thomas Markle senior in the video.
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Speaker 3: So that would be irrefutable.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: This is some nasty, awful stuff.
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Speaker 2: And look, um, she, and, and Megan like to know that she felt so resolute that she sent him this letter that she wanted receipt that he had received it, that he would never hear from her again. that he would never meet his grandchildren, and yet she said nothing to anyone about it.
00:11:41
Speaker 1: I don't know what responsibility she might have. That first statement was difficult, Robes, the one she put out where she says, I'm not having a relationship with him because I want to protect my kids. That statement is difficult when you think about the other kids. There are other kids. There are potential children. Your kids were safe. I'm just saying how this is going to play. I'm not mad at her and these family dynamics and everything else. But, man, police have got to answer some questions, babe. And the way she has talked, she has to, baby.
00:12:15
Speaker 3: She does. And police do.
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Speaker 2: I think you can tell they're already feeling the heat, that they recognize that they are now being questioned. fairly scrutinized for literally dropping the ball or saying, not our problem, didn't happen here in the UK, not our responsibility.
00:12:31
Speaker 1: Is that what they're going with?
00:12:32
Speaker 2: Well, that is kind of how they've worded it, that it was from allegations outside of the UK. When we come back, there was some really interesting words that Thomas Markle Jr. had to say to Meghan Markle publicly. These two have been estranged for years. And this was a full-blown apology to his half-sister. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. Some pretty big developments over the weekend in the Thomas Markle Sr.
00:13:12
Speaker 3: Saga.
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Speaker 2: Philippine police are investigating him. The FBI, we should mention as well. is monitoring the situation, assisting Philippine officials, and say that, yes, they are now currently looking into whether or not Thomas Markle Sr. may have had any criminal activity here in the United States. So there are full-blown investigations going on, and the UK police are trying to say we may have to investigate ourselves because perhaps we dropped the ball.
00:13:44
Speaker 3: A lot of people.
00:13:46
Speaker 2: issuing statements, but among them, Thomas Markle Jr. And he had something to say to his half-sister.
00:13:53
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of this. Does it seem heartfelt, sincere here? Is it, I don't know. That's the only way possibly to get a message to her. He's not in contact with her, but man, it's, I don't know. I don't know how he missed it. How could you miss it? There's And these aren't small boxes you can tuck away in a closet.
00:14:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:14:12
Speaker 1: How did he miss this?
00:14:13
Speaker 3: He was living with him for the past four years. So that's hard to imagine. But this is what he said to Megan publicly. I'm so, so sorry, Megan.
00:14:23
Speaker 2: I now know I have been protecting the wrong person for the past nine years. Having seen what I have seen, I believe the man I've been defending and caring for.
00:14:32
Speaker 3: Is a monster.
00:14:34
Speaker 2: I now know why you don't talk to him anymore and why you won't let him meet Harry or his grandchildren. I am ashamed that I spent years taking his side when you fell out with him. I know we're not close, but I can still remember holding you when you were a baby and looking after you when you were small. Please accept my apology and know that I wish you and your family all the best for the future.
00:14:59
Speaker 1: Nice enough. Simple as that. Let it be. I mean, he was wrong all this time. I just 60 years living with him for the last four. And why? How does he explain being in the Philippines?
00:15:12
Speaker 3: Right.
00:15:12
Speaker 1: What was he doing there? Did he have a job? He just retired. Likes the Philippines.
00:15:16
Speaker 3: Lower cost of living, maybe. 82 years old. Yes.
00:15:20
Speaker 1: Head over to the Philippines.
00:15:21
Speaker 2: Well, the SNL UK, this is their second year. They had a field day with this over the weekend. And it's funny you mentioned the Philippines because they actually took.
00:15:31
Speaker 3: A shot at that.
00:15:32
Speaker 2: So, you know, they do kind of like what we have here where they have like news headlines. So they had their broadcasters reading news headlines cheekily and it began in royal news. It's been a big 24 hours for Meghan Markle, whose dad has been accused of being an alleged pedophile in another pathetic attempt to win over the British public.
00:15:53
Speaker 3: People laugh.
00:15:54
Speaker 2: In 2025, Thomas Markle moved to the Philippines in a sure sign of his innocence.
00:16:00
Speaker 1: Whoa.
00:16:01
Speaker 3: And then the final doozy.
00:16:03
Speaker 2: If the allegations about Meghan Markle's father are true and he is a pedophile, there is a genuine chance Meghan could be considered royal.
00:16:12
Speaker 3: That's a big shot at Prince Andrew or the person who was formerly known as Prince Andrew. Yes, they had some fun with it over the weekend.
00:16:21
Speaker 1: I want her to come back to America. Come home, Meghan. It's been a disaster. It's been what? Month and a half.
00:16:30
Speaker 3: Oh, my God. It's been six weeks.
00:16:32
Speaker 1: Brobes, as soon as we started, it was one of the first things we said. Worried about her. Couldn't have predicted this. But no, the stuff we're talking about is just how she might make a misstep in public or say something. It gets scrutinized. Brobes, the kids in school, the gentleman acting gig that she had and then didn't have. You're a pedophile, daddy.
00:16:56
Speaker 3: Oh, my.
00:16:56
Speaker 1: Come on, come on. Head on back to Montecito. Just go on back to Southern California.
00:17:01
Speaker 3: They did keep the house, so they always have that option.
00:17:03
Speaker 1: They still got the studio. She can fire up that From Megan With Love show again that you know I like.
00:17:08
Speaker 3: Well, we know this isn't going away anytime soon.
00:17:11
Speaker 2: And again, once charges, and it does seem like that is where this is headed, are filed, it will just be the beginning.
00:17:17
Speaker 3: But we will stay on top of it. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach, alongside DJ Holmes.
00:17:24
Speaker 1: We'll talk soon.
