Thomas Markle's alcoholic ex-wife, the wayward son he 'cut off financially' - and how the grubbiest royal scandal in history unfolded: GUY ADAMS

Shortly after his daughter Meghan married Prince Harry, Thomas Markle was the subject of a cover story on America's most notorious supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer.

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