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Met police has confirmed receiving a letter about Meghan Markle's estranged dad, Thomas Markle.
On Saturday, October 24th, the Metropolitan Police acknowledged that the letter contained disturbing allegations about Mr. Markle.
However, at the time, the allegations were passed on to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s office, and they decided not to disclose the information to other law enforcement agencies.
For the unversed, on Friday various claims circulated on the internet that the distant father of the Duchess of Sussex kept child sexual abuse images at his former home, which the 80-year-old US citizen has denied.
Meghan Markle breaks silence over her father's sexual abuse controversy
On the same day, the As Ever founder broke her silence over the matter, addressing the sexual abuse claims and expressing "deep stress" and solidarity with the child abuse victim.
Now the Met department told Sky News that the letter was received in January 2019 about "several claims", which was reviewed and then passed to the office of Prince Harry and Meghan.
Met department's official statement
"Following a thorough review of Met Police systems and records, we have confirmed that in January 2019, we received a letter containing several claims about alleged offending outside the United Kingdom," the statement read.
They went on, "It was sent to the MPS Protection Command to raise concerns in relation to the security of the Duchess of Sussex."
What was the letter about?
The letter that Meghan mentioned in her statement on Friday, she received back in summer of 2018, shortly after her marriage with Prince Harry, which was not attended by her father.
Why Thomas Markle was estranged from Meghan Markle?
The former American actress has been estranged from her dad since 2018, when he was caught staging paparazzi photos in the run-up to her wedding.
However, Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, was the only member of Meghan’s family who attended her royal wedding, and now King Charles, then Prince of Wales, stepped in to fulfil her father’s duty as he walked her down the aisle.
