Meghan, who recently moved back to the UK with Prince Harry and their children, has frequently been accused of cutting off those once close to her.

Her treatment of her father was seen as a prime example.

"She ditched her family, ditched her dad, ditched most of her old friends, split Harry from William," wrote one commentator in 2020.

"Get on a plane and go see the poor man before it's too late," she was told on social media about her father.

All of that might need to be viewed in a different and more sympathetic light.

By 2019, Meghan had received disturbing allegations about Thomas Markle, in a letter from her father's first wife, Roslyn Loveless.

She says it is why she kept her distance and also why she didn't bring her children to him, including when she moved to the United States with her family.

That letter was shared with Meghan by the police, at a time when she was classified as a working royal.…