According to reports, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has ended her estrangement with her father by sending him an email after she discovered he had his leg amputated.
Meghan’s relationship with her dad has filled tabloid columns ever since it fell apart in the run-up to her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry. Around this time, Thomas Markle allegedly staged paparazzi photos and sold them for $100,000 (£75,000). If you believe everything you read in the papers, Meghan has since shown little mercy to her long-suffering father. Shortly after, he suffered a heart attack, and claims he has only ever wanted reconciliation and to meet his grandkids “before it’s too late”.
Three things: firstly, don’t believe everything you read in the papers. Secondly, be suspicious of men who make emotionally manipulative statements to the global media about something that should objectively be a private matter (however public one of the parties may be). And thirdly, for all the very little we know, we know this: Meghan doesn’t owe this man anything.
Well, I know this. I know what it is to be estranged from an ageing parent who has recently had serious health concerns. And I also know that as you age, life isn’t as black and white as it once was. That your anger softens, your hurt doesn’t sting quite so badly. I know that once you become a parent, you see your own parents differently.
Maybe you are more forgiving, realising they are just humans, doing their best, making mistakes, like you inevitably will. I know what it is to be tormented by the “what ifs” and the threat of leaving things until they are “too late”. I’m a bit younger than Meghan and a mother and I know what it’s like to crave peace, ease, not hold onto all that hurt.
But here’s something else I know: our collective excuse for men’s behaviour is what makes the world go round. It’s much easier to blame women.
As ever, Meghan is the villain of our national pantomime. The papers love to heckle her, and currently, these taunts are being masked as calls to reconcile with her father, yet another example of difficult Meghan refusing to tow the family line. And it’s Christmas, after all, the time of family and forgiveness.
If this were a John Hughes movie, Meghan would rush to the hospital where her father is on Christmas Eve, the snow would fall, and tears would flow as the pair were reunited. That’s the Christmas feeling we all seek – and it would also be the “good girl” doing what her father and the tabloids expect. With the type of red velvet bow you might see on her own Netflix show, it neatly ties up a narrative that, the press whispers, could be her redemption story.
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But life isn’t a John Hughes movie. Our relationship with our parents can be complex and unresolved. And that’s because a hurt caused by a parent is a singular one. The feeling of betrayal, of not being protected or unconditionally loved, is the deepest of wounds. However old we are, the dynamic remains; we want, need, our parents to do what is best for us.
Perhaps Meghan is resolved to repair her relationship with her father. Perhaps the time is right for her now. As each year passes, I, too, feel an urge to move closer to something that feels like closure. Despite its defining quality being absence, estrangement has its own type of preoccupation and exhaustion. As I have got older, I have come to understand that pain can move and morph within us, and we can find ways to contain it, demote it from being overwhelming, and move on from it.
Yet, whatever Meghan is thinking about their future relationship, that is for her to decide – regardless of how her father or the papers plead.
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