{"id":73909,"date":"2025-05-11T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=73909"},"modified":"2025-05-31T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:34:55","slug":"meghan-markles-estranged-father-thomas-sr-has-reportedly-left-mexico-and-moved-to-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/meghan-markles-estranged-father-thomas-sr-has-reportedly-left-mexico-and-moved-to-philippines\/73909\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s estranged father, Thomas Sr. has reportedly left Mexico and moved to Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle\u2019s estranged father, <strong>Thomas Markle Sr.<\/strong>, has reportedly relocated to the <strong>Philippines<\/strong>, according to <em>The Mirror<\/em>. The 80-year-old is now living in a <strong>\u00a3500-a-month high-rise flat<\/strong> in <strong>Cebu<\/strong>, a bustling city in the central part of the country. He\u2019s said to be <strong>under the care of Meghan\u2019s half-brother, Thomas Jr.<\/strong>, who moved with him to provide support.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses spotted Thomas Sr. <strong>sitting alone outside a supermarket<\/strong> near his new home just a day after his grandson Archie\u2019s birthday. Photos show him navigating the area with a <strong>walking stick<\/strong>, as he reportedly deals with the country\u2019s <strong>intense heat and uneven roads<\/strong>\u2014no easy task for someone his age, especially after having suffered <strong>two heart attacks<\/strong> in the past.<\/p>\n<p>A local insider commented on his condition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s brutal even for men half his age, but it\u2019s still sad to see him looking as though he\u2019s struggling.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the tough conditions, sources say the move was a joint decision between Thomas Sr. and Thomas Jr., and the two are <strong>\u201cfirmly supporting each other\u201d<\/strong> as they adjust to life in Cebu. Before settling into their flat, the pair briefly stayed at a <strong>three-star hotel<\/strong> in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Sr. had previously spent the last decade living in <strong>Rosarito, Mexico<\/strong>, in a beachside bungalow roughly <strong>250 miles<\/strong> from his daughter Meghan\u2019s home in <strong>Montecito, California<\/strong>, where she lives with Prince Harry and their two children, Archie and Lilibet.<\/p>\n<p>There has been <strong>no indication of renewed contact<\/strong> between Meghan and her father, who has been estranged from her for several years following a series of public controversies and interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle\u2019s estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr., has reportedly relocated to the Philippines, according to The Mirror. The 80-year-old is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1588],"class_list":["post-73909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-meghan-markle"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}