Thomas Markle continues to be a stand-up guy:
https://pagesix.com/2020/01/22/megh...as-admits-to-lying-but-insists-royals-owe-me/
I want to point out that forgiveness does not necessarily equal reconciliation. Forgiveness does not mean you have to subject yourself to more mistreatment. Just because Meghan won’t have contact with her father doesn’t mean she feels bitterness (or anger, or hurt, or remorse...) over the situation. She might, now or eventually, even feel peace or relief to have these negative relationships out of her life. Much like the way people ultimately feel happier after they’ve gotten out of a bad marriage, for example. She might simply feel numb acceptance.
Or, she might go the rest of her life feeling hurt or saddened by the situation, but still recognizing that there’s no healthy way to have a relationship with him. Think of an addict. This substance-abusing family member comes to your house high, exhibits erratic behavior around your children, steals from your medicine cabinet, shows up in the middle of the night with his addict buddies to ask for money, and blows up when you won’t give it to him. You know he could be a different person if he could just get it together and you’ve tried to help him, but he refuses to change. At some point, you’re going to decide the only thing you can do is protect yourself and your family from more of this dysfunction. You might always feel sad about cutting that person off, while also understanding it was the most responsible choice for your family.
Meghan can forgive him, if that’s a concept that’s important to her, but still not want him in her life.
Conversely, if she did choose to resume contact with her father, that wouldn’t necessarily indicate that she wasn’t still feeling anger or bitterness about the situation. And, she could find that welcoming him back into her life might prove to be the most painful or regrettable choice she could make, especially since the decision to do so would now also impact her husband and child.
As far as her father’s feeling on the matter, well, those are his feelings to manage, not hers. If people don’t want to be around him because of the things he’s done, these are the consequences of his actions. Just like the addict example above, he is ultimately responsible for his own choices. You can only push people so far before you push them away completely.
Who knows, Meghan might be doing him a favor by refusing to engage with him anymore. This might be the “rock bottom” he needs to hit to evaluate his behavior and turn things around, though I suspect the damage is already done.