Meghan dad’s photo op$

Meg dad fake$ pix

Hope he wasn’t in charge of finding the wedding photographer.

Meghan Markle’s father — who is set to give her away at her Windsor Castle nuptials this Saturday — secretly collaborated with a paparazzo to stage lucrative photos of himself preparing for the royal wedding, it was reported on Sunday.

Thomas Markle worked with Los Angeles-based snapper Jeff Rayner to set up the posed photos, which were peddled as candid shots, The Mail on Sunday reported, citing witnesses and security-camera footage.

One of the pictures shows Thomas Markle, 73, sitting at an Internet-cafe computer in Rosarito, Mexico, where he lives, looking at news reports about his daughter’s upcoming wedding to Prince Harry.

In another, he is seen reading a book titled “Images of Great Britain” in a Starbucks.

A third (inset) shows him supposedly being fitted for a suit for the big day.

Witnesses reported seeing the dad and Rayner show up together and plan out the three photo shoots.

“They didn’t stay long, probably about 10 minutes,” the Internet cafe’s manager, Jessica Anaya, 34, told the Mail. “And they left together.”

At one point, the two men went to a tailor shop to take photos of Markle getting fitted for a suit — but the store was closed, according to the Mail.

Undeterred, they enlisted a 17-year-old worker at a neighboring party-goods store to pose as a clothier — and Markle, a retired Hollywood lighting director, whipped out his own tape measure for the teen to use, the Mail said.

“I just went along with it. I was telling him the measurements, but he didn’t write them down or anything,” said the teen, David Flores. “It was really strange.”

The snaps netted Rayner a reported $135,000. It was unclear whether the father of the bride reaped any of the windfall.

The photos surfaced after Britain’s royal family asked paparazzi to leave the dad alone. His reps issued a letter to international media asking them to lay off him, saying all of the requests for interviews and photo shoots were intruding on his privacy.

Rayner’s agency, Coleman-Rayner, didn’t respond to a Post message seeking comment Sunday. Rayner, who is British, refused to comment to the Mail.

Markle didn’t return a message left on his cellphone.

Kensington Palace declined to comment, the Mail reported.