In Thomas Markle’s hospital-bed interview with the Mail on Sunday, one detail jumped out: he told a journalist that he was having his lower leg amputated before telling either his daughter Samantha or his son, Thomas Markle Jr.

The Mail’s Caroline Graham writes that she got a text message from Meghan’s estranged dad reading, “Going to lose the leg today.”

Graham said that when she contacted Tom Jr. (“his father’s primary carer who lives with him in the Philippines”) and his other daughter, Samantha, with the news, “Both were flabbergasted. He had chosen to break the news of the amputation to me before his own family.”

Here at the Daily Beast, The Royalist has always believed that this story was complex, and that Thomas and his other children are compromised individuals who have relentle

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