Meghan Markle’s estranged 81-year-old father Thomas Markle declared Wednesday that he is “fine” after his older daughter raised the alarm that he was trapped on the 19th floor of his apartment building in the Philippines after a deadly 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the island of Cebu, in the central part of the country.

“Please don’t worry about me, everything is okay,” Thomas Markle said in a statement, according to the Daily Mail. The concern about his well-being was sparked by Samantha Markle, the half sister of the Duchess of Sussex, who posted on social media that her father was unable to leave his apartment after the quake struck Cebu Province on Tuesday night, at about 10 p.m. local time, the Daily Mail said.

Thomas Markle, a former Hollywood lighting designer, relocated to the

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