In the wake of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's deeply personal interview with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday, her father Thomas Markle has spoken out on the UK's Good Morning Britain.
It's been well-documented that Meghan is estranged from her father, who she hasn't spoken to throughout her time in the Royal Family.
Now, as the world comes to terms with the information revealed by the Duke and Duchess, Thomas Markle has shared his side of the story with GMB presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.
Here are 11 important points to take away from Thomas's interview on Tuesday (March 9).
1. Thomas hasn't been in communication with Meghan since 2018Thomas said that the interview on Sunday was the first time he has heard his daughter speak in years. The last time they communicated on the phone was back in 2018 when he was in the hospital after having a heart attack.
The 76-year-old informed the former Suits actress that he wouldn't be able to attend her wedding.
During the phone call in which Thomas informed the pair that he would not be able to attend their wedding at Windsor Castle, he claims Harry jumped in to tell his stricken father-in-law-to-be, "If you had listened to me, this wouldn't have happened to you."
Given that he was lying in a hospital bed after having undergone a procedure, Thomas felt the remark was "kind of snotty" so he hung up. That was the last communication he had with either Meghan or Harry.
Thomas said that he continues to speak to the press because he never hears from Meghan or Harry despite attempting to reach out to them. "If I don't hear from them in 30 days, then I'll do another story for the press," he said. "And I have yet to hear from them."
Thomas went on to say that when they start talking to him, "I'll stop talking to the press."
Back in 2018, a deeper rift emerged between Thomas and the Duchess of Sussex when he took part in staged paparazzi photos.
In the faux photos, he was pictured researching royal palaces and being measured for a suit. Thomas admitted to the Good Morning Britain hosts, that he lied to Meghan about the staged photos.
The idea behind the photos came about from his eldest daughter. She was contacted by a photographer named Jeff Raynor, who told her he could make her father "look good".
Thomas said he was tempted to take up the offer as he had been the center of a number of negative headlines and wanted to rectify his image.
After the staged photos fiasco, Thomas says he told Meghan, "We all make mistakes," before harking back to Prince Harry's wild days as a younger man. Harry was famously pictured playing strip billiards and dressed in a Nazi uniform at a fancy dress party.
"We all make mistakes, but I've never played naked pool and I've never dressed up like Hitler," he recalled telling Meghan.
Attention was then turned to the letter that Meghan wrote to her father, which was published in the Mail On Sunday. Meghan recently won a case after she sued the paper for its publication of the private letter.
"I'm the one who released the letter -- part of the letter," Thomas reveals. He then explained why he decided to share the letter, explaining, "Meghan's friends were telling a story about me - mostly lies. And after reading these lies, I said I have to retaliate and release part of the letter."
Had Thomas shared the entire letter with the press, "you would have seen something that was, well, horrible," he insists. "It was so bad," he adds, before clarifying that he was referring to things Meghan had said to him in the letter.
Thomas said it "upset" him to hear during Sunday's interview that Meghan had experienced one of her lowest points during her in the institution of the Royal Family. She even admitted to Oprah that she'd had suicidal ideations and had told Harry she "didn't want to be alive anymore".
"Had I known she was having psychological problems, I would have been there for her," her father explained on Tuesday. "The biggest problem is she's pretty much ghosted all of her family - on her mother's side and my side. So she really has no one to reach out to."
Thomas said he was very "disappointed" about how the whole situation turned out - including the fact that he's never ever met his son-in-law or his grandson.
In response to Meghan's allegations of racism within the institution, Thomas said: "I don't think the British Royal Family are racist. I don't think the British are racist. I think Los Angeles is racist, California is racist, but I don't think the Brits are.
"This thing about what color will the baby be or how dark will the baby be - I'm guessing and hoping it's just a dumb question from somebody. It could be that simple. It could be that someone asked a stupid question rather than being a total racist."
"I love my daughter very much," Thomas tells the hosts. He also said he would love to hear from Meghan and Harry."
"[Meghan] didn't lose me," he says. "I'm there for her now if she wants me."