Breaking News: Royal Family in Tears and Mourning, Meghan Markle Devastated After Prince Harry’s Shocking Announcement… Read More

general and the 93-year-old Queen in particular.

But with details of their future so uncertain, and so many unanswered questions, comes a dramatic new development — and one which goes to the very heart of the battle to salvage the couple’s reputation.

Pages of a defence document submitted to the High Court reveal the inside story of how the relationship between But now Mr Markle has handed over previously unseen messages and letters from him which set out his attempts to mend the relationship with his daughter after heart surgery forced him to miss the wedding.

His only contact from her has been in a handwritten letter sent to him in August 2018, three months after the ceremony, in which she accused him of ‘lying’ and inflicting ‘pain’ on her and her new husband.

That letter is at the heart of a court case in which the Duchess of Sussex has accused the Mail on Sunday of breaching both her privacy and her copyright after it published extracts.

The newspaper, which is the sister paper of the Daily Mail, was given the letter by Thomas Markle after five close friends of the Duchess gave anonymous interviews to a U.S. celebrity magazine attacking him and which he said were false and had left him ‘devastated’.

The new details are contained in the defence document, lodged with the court by the Mail on Sunday, which paints a vivid and disturbing picture of the deterioration and breakdown of the relationship between Meghan and her father, a retired Hollywood lighting director