{"id":478825,"date":"2025-10-06T20:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478825\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:04:19","slug":"archie-and-lilibets-estranged-granddad-says-hed-love-to-see-my-grandkids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478825\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie and Lilibet&#8217;s estranged granddad says he&#8217;d &#8216;love to see my grandkids&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1349070_4117352_Archie-Lilibet_updates.jpg\" alt=\"The couple have a complicated relationship with both their fathers, King Charles and Thomas Markle\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The couple have a complicated relationship with both their fathers, King Charles and Thomas Markle<\/p>\n<p>Archie and Lilibet haven\u2019t been able to have much of a relationship with their extended family, much to the dismay of their grandparents. <\/p>\n<p>Prince Archie was just a few months old when his parents, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, decided to step down from royal life in January 2020, and moved to the US. Princess Lilibet, meanwhile, has only met her paternal grandfather once during the late Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>But while His Majesty still has hope for a reunion with his beloved grandchildren, chances for their other grandpa, Thomas Markle, seem much lower. <\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with the Mail on Sunday published October 5, the Duchess of Sussex\u2019s estranged father said he\u2019s never stopped loving his daughter, despite their years-long rift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d love to see my grandkids,\u201d he said. \u201cI have never stopped loving my daughter. Nothing will ever change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 81-year-old has been living in Cebu, Philippines, since January with his son, Tom Jr., where the two moved in search of \u201cmore peace\u201d after years of public tension surrounding Meghan\u2019s relationship with the royal family.<\/p>\n<p>Harry and Meghan, meanwhile, have been living in their Montecito mansion in Los Angeles, California. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Duke of Sussex reunited with King Charles amid their own estranged relationship. During the meeting, Harry reportedly gave the monarch a photograph of Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas inevitably caught wind of the news and felt left out. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder, do they have the Markle nose? When you are a grandparent, you think about things like that. I\u2019d love a photograph. I would like to speak to Charles. Of all the people on the planet, he knows what it feels like to be estranged from a child and how tough it is,\u201d he admitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple have a complicated relationship with both their fathers, King Charles and Thomas Markle Archie and Lilibet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-478825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115329018933296674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}