Meghan Markle letter: Duchess of Sussex ‘is narcissistic showman’ left ‘anxious’ by family feud, say handwriting experts
Meghan's letter to her estranged dad Thomas Markle accused him of breaking her heart 'into a million pieces' by lying in the press and publicly attacking Prince Harry
MEGHAN Markle is a "narcissistic showman" left "anxious and vulnerable" by her family feud, handwriting experts have claimed.
The intimate details of the letter Meghan Markle sent to her estranged father Thomas Markle were revealed last night in which she accused him of breaking her heart "into a million pieces".
In a five-page letter sent shortly after her wedding to Prince Harry the Duchess of Sussex begged Thomas Markle, 74, to stop “turning a blind eye to the pain” he was causing.
The Hollywood lighting director, who now lives in Mexico, described it as a “dagger to the heart” but said he never intended to make the handwritten letter public “out of respect for Meghan”.
However he felt he was forced to after five of the former actress’s friend spoke about it in interviews with a US magazine last week.
Handwriting expert Emma Bache claimed the "highly-stylised" letter suggested Meghan was "ultra cautious" but also a "showman and a narcissist".
She said: "I have seen a lot of Meghan's handwriting. Normally it's very regular but this shows a wavering. It shows a highly stylised and slow handwriting. She is ultra cautious, is well aware that the world has their eyes on her and that is just how she likes it".
Tracey Trussell, another expert, said Meghan had put "great thought and consideration" into what she was saying as it was "clearly affecting her deeply".
She said: "Meghan's writing is extremely stylised and unnatural - which tells us that she's vulnerable, and repressing pain from experiences and disappointments that have happened in her life.
"It reveals her perfectionist streak and desire to hide her true feelings under wraps."
MEGHAN WANTS TO BE 'FRIENDLY AND CO-OPERATIVE'
She added: "The whole piece of writing has clockwork regularity, and the rhythm is stilted and contrived, which shows how much self-discipline Meghan exerts to keep her emotions and actions under control, so she doesn't do or say the wrong thing.
"There are also many starting and covering strokes at the beginning of words - which also tells us how much thought she has given to writing this letter, and how hard she was trying to say the right thing and be the strong person.
"Her emotional barometer, seen in the handwriting slant, is set to the right, which means that emotional responsiveness is high. Meghan wants to be friendly and cooperative...she wants to communicate and express herself.
'CLEARLY AFFECTING MEGHAN DEEPLY'
"Also, the spacing of the words is tellingly quite wide and irregular, which also tells us that she gave great thought and consideration to the content of what she's saying, to the extent that it was naturally causing her to feel quite a bit of anxiety. This matter is clearly affecting Meghan deeply.
"She has strong left tendencies, where her end strokes sweep up and backwards, which reveal how much she reflects about things that have happened to her in the past, and how it's impossible for her to forget people who have meant so much to her in her life.
"And the elaborate strokes or embellishments that sweep across the tops of words reveal her vulnerability - the chink in her armour.
"Surely this is enough proof of how much Meghan cares?"
Ms Bache told the Mail: "There is enormous emotion as well as energy but she is both self aware and self orientated.
"However she suffers from anxiety and in this instance her usual regularity and over control of pen strokes does show some wavering and a slight uneven baseline - she is showing some wavering of self control. But not much!"
'PLEASE STOP LYING'
In the letter Meghan pours her heart out to her dad, insisting she and Harry did all they could to help him and accused him of being ungrateful for the money she has given him.
She said Thomas had caused her “unwarranted pain” while claiming he never called her to say he wasn’t coming to her wedding.
However Mr Markle insisted he sent a text to say he wasn’t going to make it.
She accused her father of being ungrateful for money she's given him and for not accepting her offer of help during his health scare last year.
She also hit out at her dad for siding with her half-sister Samantha “who I barely know” while she “silently suffered at the hand of her vicious lies”, adding how she “crumbled inside”.
And in a heart wrenching plea Meghan begged her father: “If you love me, as you tell the press you do, please stop. Please allow us to live our lives in peace. Please stop lying, please stop creating so much pain, please stop exploiting my relationship with my husband.”
The explosive letter in full
"Daddy,
"It is with a heavy heart that I write this, not understanding why you have chosen to take this path, turning a blind eye to the pain you’re causing.
"Your actions have broken my heart into a million pieces — not simply because you have manufactured such unnecessary and unwarranted pain, but by making the choice to not tell the truth as you are puppeteered in this. Something I will never understand.
";You’ve told the press that you called me to say you weren’t coming to the wedding — that didn’t happen because you never called.
"You’ve said I never helped you financially and you've never asked me for help which is also untrue; you sent me an email last October that said: ‘If I’ve depended too much on you for financial help then I’m sorry but please if you could help me more not as a bargaining chip for my loyalty'.
"I have only ever loved, protected, and defended you, offering whatever financial support I could, worrying about your health... and always asking how I could help. So the week of the wedding to hear about you having a heart attack through a tabloid was horrifying. I called and texted... I begged you to accept help — we sent someone to your home... and instead of speaking to me to accept this or any help, you stopped answering your phone and chose to only speak to tabloids.
"If you love me, as you tell the press you do, please stop. Please allow us to live our lives in peace. Please stop lying, please stop creating so much pain, please stop exploiting my relationship with my husband... "I realise you are so far down this rabbit hole that you feel (or may feel) there’s no way out, but if you take a moment to pause I think you’ll see that being able to live with a clear conscience is more valuable than any payment in the world.
"I pleaded with you to stop reading the tabloids. On a daily basis you fixated and clicked on the lies they were writing about me, especially those manufactured by your other daughter, who I barely know… you watched me silently suffer at the hand of her vicious lies, I crumbled inside.
"We all rallied around to support and protect you from day 1, and this you know. So to hear about the attacks you’ve made at Harry in the press, who was nothing but patient, kind, and understanding with you is perhaps the most painful of all.
"For some reason you choose to continue fabricating these stories, manufacturing this fictitious narrative, and entrenching yourself deeper into this web you’ve spun. The only thing that helps me sleep at night is the faith and knowing that a lie can’t live forever…I believed you, trusted you, and told you I loved you. The next morning the CCTV footage came out.
"You haven’t reached out to me since the week of our wedding, and while you claim you have no way of contacting me, my phone number has remained the same. This you know.
"No texts, no missed calls, no outreach from you — just more global interviews you’re being paid to do to say harmful and hurtful things that are untrue."
It comes after Meghan authorised five of her close friends to speak anonymously to a US magazine to counter the "global bullying" directed at her.
One of the five unnamed women told People magazine: "Meg has silently sat back and endured the lies and untruths."
She made a heartfelt plea for him to stop victimising her after milking her fame with a string of public interviews.
And in an attempt to build bridges, she told him she would "always love him".
But she was devastated when he responded by asking for a photo shoot with her.
Thomas missed his daughter's wedding to Prince Harry last May after it was revealed he had staged paparazzi pictures.
He insists he has done nothing wrong, saying: “I’m human and I’m sorry. How much longer must I say it,” saying the estrangement has caused “massive stress”.
He reached out to Meghan saying: “I want nothing more than to sort this mess out. I would ask her and Harry to contact me. All it would take is one phone call and most of this craziness would stop.”
