Police in London fails to ask Meghan which officer gave her Thomas Markle letter
London’s Metropolitan Police has not contacted the Duchess of Sussex to find out which royal protection officer passed on a letter containing child sexual abuse allegations against her father, the Daily Telegraph has revealed.
The duchess was given a photocopy of a letter written by Thomas Markle’s ex-wife to the Metropolitan Police in 2019.
Scotland Yard has since admitted that it did not share allegations of child abuse contained in the letter with any overseas authorities.
The duchess was handed the letter by one of her royal bodyguards, who assured her that the matter would be investigated.
The same royalty and specialist protection officer is also said to have advised the duchess not to go public with the allegations.
The Met has said it is still trying to identify and track down the officer involved.
A source close to the duchess told the Telegraph: “The Met has not been in touch to ask for our assistance.
“They contacted the duchess’s office to ask for a copy of the letter when its existence first came to light but have not been back in touch since then.”
It is also understood that the letter passed on to the duchess was only a photocopy and the original is still missing.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating the Met for its failure to share the allegations with other foreign authorities.
The letter was originally sent to the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, the unit tasked with dealing with individuals posing a threat to royals and politicians.
It was sent by Markle snr’s ex-wife Rosyln Loveless, who told police that they could contact her by phone or visit her if they needed more details.
With Loveless having died in 2024, that opportunity was lost, potentially hampering further inquiries.
Loveless, the mother of Markle jnr and Samantha Markle, the Duchess of Sussex’s other half-sibling, divorced Markle snr in 1975. He married Doria Ragland, the duchess’s mother, four years later.
Loveless also warned in her letter that her former husband posed a threat to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
She said she felt it was “useful for security and threat assessment units in the UK” to be aware of his “true and unsavoury background”.
This week, it emerged that police in the Philippines had found child abuse images on digital devices allegedly belonging to Markle snr.
His son, Thomas Markle jnr, has also been named as a “person of interest” in the ongoing investigation.
Juanito Victor Remulla, the Philippines’ interior secretary, said police had received allegations about underage girls being taken to Markle jnr’s home at Cordova in the Philippines.
Remulla, whose government position is equivalent to a home secretary, described Markle snr as “a possible sex offender of the grossest kind”.
The 82-year-old has admitted paying for sex in the Philippines but strongly denied the child abuse allegations, suggesting he had been “set up”.
Markle snr moved from Mexico to the Philippines in January 2025, before relocating to Florida in May following the amputation of his lower leg.
He claimed he was “not well enough” to return to the country, but insisted he would “speak to anyone who wants to talk to me”.
He was reportedly moved into a care home for dementia patients last week.
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