Yahoo News Meghan Markle warned not to allow her father be 'proper grandad' to Archie
Meghan Markle has been warned not to allow her father be part of Archie’s life - by his former wife.
Markle and Prince Harry welcomed Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor last week, and his short life has already sparked huge public interest and controversy.
Now Tom Markle’s ex wife, Roslyn Markle, has warned the happy couple about her ex-husband, saying he was an ‘awful father’ with little interest in his own children. She advised Meghan against a reconciliation with her estranged father, or to allow him to be a proper grandad to the new royal.
Talking to the Mirror, Rosly said: “Knowing Tom as I do, Meghan would be a fool to have him in her life.
“While he portrays himself as a loving father, he was anything but to our two children during our marriage. It may sound cliche but a leopard doesn't change its spots.
“Repeatedly he has shown to Meghan he cannot be trusted. She must know that now. I speak not out of bitterness, my life moved on many years ago, but out of concern.
“Archie deserves to be brought up in a happy home, not in this vengeful situation that has been created.
“Tom was an awful father. What makes him think he’d be a great grandfather to Archie?”
Roslyn was married to Markle between 1964 and 1975, having two children. He later married Doria Ragland, Meghan’s mother, in 1979, before they separated in 1989.
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Roslyn revealed how she was struck by the “tall, handsome man” with “a great sense of humour and charming smile”, she met at a party in 1963.
The couple were soon married with two children, and the cracks in the marriage began to show. Roslyn, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said: “As I was no longer working, Tom’s paycheck was the only money coming in.
“But to him, his money was his and his alone. Whenever I asked for help to feed to kids or buy diapers, he’d scream, ‘Get a f*****g job’ and then laugh.
“I can still see the look in his face and how he’d clench his teeth in anger. Although he was never violent, Tom would often lose his temper.”
