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A missive making a "number of claims" against the begetter of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was received by the Metropolitan Police successful 2019, a Scotland Yard spokesperson confirmed to CBS News connected Saturday.
Police said they passed the missive to the bureau of the Duke and Duchess "for their awareness," however, the details of the allegations made successful the missive were not shared with different instrumentality enforcement agencies.
On Friday, it was reported that Meghan's estranged father, Thomas Markle, is under investigation by authorities successful the Philippines for alleged possession of kid intersexual maltreatment materials.
A spokesperson for the Philippine National Police told CBS News successful a connection Saturday that they launched an probe aft Markle's idiosyncratic items were turned implicit to instrumentality enforcement by his son, Thomas Markle Jr.
"At this point, investigators are looking into the quality and root of the materials and whether these whitethorn beryllium connected to immoderate usurpation of law," Col. Allen Rae Co said successful a statement. "U.S. authorities person besides offered assistance should Philippine authorities find that their enactment is needed arsenic the probe progresses."
The British tabloid The Sun was the archetypal to report the allegations against Markle Sr. The study said the younger Markle allegedly discovered kid maltreatment materials successful retention boxes astatine his father's location successful the Philippines.
Thomas Markle, Meghan's father, is seen successful a inactive taken from a video arsenic helium gives an interrogation to ITV's "Good Morning Britain" programme connected June 18, 2018.
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The Daily Mail reported Friday that Markle had denied the allegations against him.
Meghan, who precocious moved backmost to Britain with her hubby Prince Harry and their children, said successful a connection sent to CBS News connected Friday that she was "deeply distressed" by reports astir her father. She said she had been alert of the allegations against him since 2018 and that the allegations were shared with U.K. authorities astatine the time.
"In 2018, a missive was sent to the Metropolitan Police and Royalty and Specialist Protection. That missive was subsequently shared with me. It made troubling and disturbing allegations against my begetter and I was fixed assurances that these were being investigated," her Friday connection said.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, depart aft visiting Himmah Hub during their sojourn to Nottingham connected Oct. 15, 2026, successful Nottingham, England.
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Meghan said she had distanced herself from her begetter successful an effort to support her children.
"I anticipation it tin present beryllium understood that, contempt definite media publications' distortion implicit the years, immoderate region from my begetter and my prime to not let him to person interaction with our children, was for 1 reason: to support them," she said.
Responding to Saturday's developments dating the missive to 2019, a spokesperson for the duchess told CBS News spouse BBC News that "any discrepancy of a fewer months" was "an understandable effect of that transition of time."
Scotland Yard said Saturday that Met Police volition beryllium reviewing the handling of this substance successful 2019 and deciding whether to notation itself to the constabulary watchdog.
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