Just in from the Sussex soap opera!

After the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, mother of the bride Doria ragland discreetly disappeared back into her life.

Since then, her lips have been sealed. from her there has not been a peep, a gaffe, a clanger or even careless whisper.

Doria is a class act, who doesn’t want to do anything to harm Meghan and her new royal life. Unfortunately, no one could say the same about thomas Markle.

After his embarrassing tV interview, he is now reported to have told friends he is fretting about his future as a father.

He believes he will never see Meghan again. ‘I think that relationship is lost now,’ he said.

the 73-year- old fears the couple have dumped him, and revealed he has not spoken to either Meghan or Harry ‘for a long while’. He also complained about the upcoming UK visit of Donald trump, saying that if ‘the Queen is willing to meet our arrogant, ignorant, and insensitive President she has no excuse not to meet me, I’m nowhere near as bad’. Could he be any more embarrassing?

In some ways, one can see why the Sussexes have pulled up the drawbridge. His breaches of protocol, his wedding noshow, his financial arrangements with Press and tV shows. None of this is good.

Yet Mr Markle does not seem motivated by malice or greed. He just seems a little lost. I still don’t understand why Harry has yet to meet his father-in-law, nor why Meghan did not visit him after his heart surgery — surely the least a dutiful daughter could do?

Unless they start looking after him things are only going to get worse.

And what happens if they start a family? Are they going to deny him access to his grandchildren? Harry and Meghan should put aside their great humanitarian projects and their hopes to save the world together for a moment — and go to the aid of this distressed, ill old man instead.