This daily attrition against the RF is unprecedented since the “war of the Wales’” Another Markle story trashing the RF only serves to bolster support for Meghan from a minority and clouds the view further for the majority in the UK. The other minority who are republican will milk this soap opera.
Well, the tabloids are definitely not in let-up mode. If possible, the tabs especially in conjunction with the age of the Internet, are even worse than during the 1980s and 1990s (particularly with completely made-up stories).
At some point, hopefully, the tabloids will be taken to task to stop aiding and abetting. Hopefully, the Markle uncle and the half-siblings will dry up with their whinging angles since no one in the royal family is ever going to respond to them.
Markle Snr is another story entirely, as Meghan's formerly loving father. I don't think Meghan will make any attempt to contact him while he continues to publicly whine and badger her via the tabloids. Perhaps if her father finally decides to shut up, maybe then an attempt might be made by Meghan to reconnect with him out of familial courtesy sometime down the road, but only under the condition that he never speak to the press ever again. If her father breaks confidence again, it's got to be over. In fact, with the latest Markle Snr diatribe, there's every reason to believe it's already over.
Meghan has been placed in an impossible situation by her father. As others have said in this thread, there's no way in the world that Meghan (and especially not Harry and the royals) should be blamed for somehow not having 'brought Markle Snr into the fold sooner.' We don't actually know anything about what measures Harry and Meghan took to maintain communication with Markle Snr during their courtship. Surely, he was offered an opportunity to meet Harry privately before the engagement was announced. I get the sense that Markle Snr refused their possible offers to bring him to London, or to visit with him secretly somewhere in private. Certainly, we do know that Harry and Meghan made every effort to include Markle Snr in the wedding. Apparently, he rebuffed their offers to bring him to London in advance of the wedding. From the things Markle Snr has said to the media, it appears that he may at some point have been trying to get Meghan to make up with her sister and to invite other Markle family members, which is clearly not something that should have been presented as a condition for his attendance, if indeed he made that proviso.
Surely Meghan has been disappointed by her father on a number of occasions, so she must have been particularly anxious about how he would ultimately respond in regard to attending the wedding. I believe Samantha eventually got her hooks into her father and influenced him to cooperate with the pap/tab photographer for the posed pics. And once Markle Snr lied to Prince Harry about that, it was the beginning of the end for any close relationship between Meghan and her father to be viable. He's being abusive in his dealings toward Meghan and the royals, and that can not be tolerated.