I n a shocking departure from the Duchess of Sussex ’s usual picture-perfect life, which most recently has included idyllic English country walks with the Duke of Sussex and their children, Prince Archie , seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, at their new home in the Cotswolds , an ugly truth is unravelling.

Her 82-year-old estranged father, Thomas Markle , is “a possible sex offender of the grossest kind”, according to investigators in the Philippines . Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr, has revealed that he discovered “hundreds, if not thousands” of images of child sexual abuse on computers kept at their father’s former home in Cebu City. He reported the material to local police and the FBI.

Meghan has said she first learned of the “troubling and disturbing” allegations about her father through a letter passed to her by British police in 2019. The letter is thought to have been written by her father’s late ex-wife, Roslyn Loveless, the mother of Thomas Jr and his sister, Samantha.…