Thomas Markle has criticised Meghan following the release of her Netflix cooking show, branding his daughter "inauthentic" and accusing her of using "pre-planned" facial expressions during the series.

Thomas Markle also disputed Meghan's claim that she was a "latchkey kid" who ate TV dinners on a tray. According to Thomas Markle, Meghan lived with him full-time from age 11 until university. He told the outlet: "We occasionally ate TV dinners, which family doesn't? But I was working two jobs, so money was never an issue."

The Duchess of Sussex's estranged father Thomas Markle Snr. has given a scathing verdict of her new cooking show, and has also responded to the bombshell revelation that she no longer goes by the name