Meghan Markle's father asks to see his grandchildren

Thomas Markle, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, with whom he has a strained relationship, asked his daughter, in an interview Tuesday, to let him see his grandchildren, while accusing her of only worrying about money.

“We are at a point where I believe that we should both mature, speak, reconcile for the sake of the children,” he said in reference to his grandson Archie, born in 2019, and his granddaughter Lilibet, born last June.

He was speaking in an interview from his  home in Mexico on the British channel ITV .

Retired Hollywood lighting director, Markle, 77, has not been in contact with her daughter since she married Prince Henry, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, in May 2018 and has not met the children.

“This is ridiculous, almost four years, it’s crazy,” he said.

“Their s great-grandmother is the Queen of England and I think it is important for them to know that they have two families and over time they will grow up and they will want to know more about them,” he added.

However, as in previous interviews, he did not avoid attacking his daughter, who became famous as an actress in the television series Suits.

He said that Meghan wanted him to stop talking to his other children, the result of a second marriage. “I couldn’t,” he said. “She had never been like this” but “once she hooked up with Henry, she changed,” he said.

Markle separated from Doria Ragland, Meghan’s mother, when she was a child.

Ragland was at her wedding at Windsor Castle and has had tea with the queen. But Meghan abandoned all contact with her father, who did not attend the ceremony citing health reasons, after he carried out a controversial photoshoot with paparazzi in Mexico, considered an embarrassment to the British royal family.

On Tuesday he also accused his daughter and Prince Henry of caring only about wealth: “That’s the only thing that seems to matter to them right now.”

Harry and Meghan surprised the British monarchy when they announced last year that they were resigning from their posts as front-line members of the royal family.

They moved to Los Angeles and have since signed a series of lucrative contracts to produce podcasts and shows for digital platforms.