Meghan Markle said she is ‘deeply distressed’ and insists her decision to keep him away from her children was about protecting them. Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is facing a probe in the Philippines over alleged possession of child sexual abuse materials. Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Sr, is being investigated in the Philippines over claims made by his son, and he says he is innocent.