Half-brother of Meghan Markle has filed a request for authority over their father Thomas Markle’s legal and commercial matters while he recovers from a stroke.
The 78-year-old might be placed under “conservatorship,” a kind of legal guardianship that was notably used by family members to oversee singer Britney Spears for 13 years.
They are given to people who, for example, have dementia and are no longer able to make their own choices.
Thomas Sr. had a stroke in May and has struggled with his health for some time.
If approved, Tom Jr., 55, would be able to handle a legal battle with British photographer Jeff Rayner over staged pictures that caused Thomas Sr. “global shame.”
The Sunday Mirror quoted an anonymous source as saying: “Tom Snr has had a succession of health scares and his son wants to do the best for him by removing any stress.”
Cases in America go on for months or years, so Tom Snr. will feel lighter. He will be able to concentrate on getting well.
The father-daughter relationship deteriorated as a result of the photos, which were shot before Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding.
The photos, according to Thomas Sr., were produced in an effort to assist him modify his public image.
“The idea was that they would all be casual images, inconspicuous, and nobody would know they were posed or anything,” he stated in a Channel 5 program.
“It would simply be me going about my everyday business.”
The photographer even obtained a restraining order against Thomas Sr. after reading that the former Hollywood lighting engineer had even said in a book that he would think about murdering Mr. Rayner.
Thomas Sr. allegedly said: “I got screwed Rayner,” according to author Tom Bower of the book Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between The Windsors. I want to destroy him. I’ll murder him if they tell me I have terminal cancer because I have nothing to lose.
Thomas Sr. will appear in court in November to ask for $1 million in damages for the harm the faked photos caused. Thomas Sr. has denied suggesting he would murder Mr. Rayner.
Mr. Markle’s handwritten court file is so plainly frivolous that Mr. Markle and anybody else who republishes the specifics of Mr. Markle’s court petition will be liable to Coleman-Rayner for defamation, according to a statement from Mr. Rayner’s photography business.
Thomas Sr. missed the wedding because of a heart attack, and Meghan hasn’t talked to her father since the faked photos.
Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 1, are the children of Meghan, although he has yet to meet them.
Tom Jr. has opted not to respond.