{"id":17258,"date":"2022-05-25T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2022-05-25T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:04:26","slug":"megan-markles-father-suffered-a-catastrophic-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/25\/megan-markles-father-suffered-a-catastrophic-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Markle&#8217;s father suffered a catastrophic stroke."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas Markle, 77, became unwell in Mexico and was transported to the hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His son Thomas Jr., 55, was with him, and his daughter Samantha, 57, was rushing to his bedside Friday night. &#8220;We&#8217;re praying,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meg, her estranged daughter, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/05\/meghan-markle-waltzing-back-after-prince-william\/\">Prince Harry<\/a> are also scheduled to visit the UK for the Jubilee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thomas Sr is unable to talk after suffering a &#8220;major&#8221; stroke and being transported to the hospital while wearing an oxygen mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meghan Markle&#8217;s father was taken to an ambulance on a cart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was then transported to Mexico for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 77-year-old was claimed to have lost his speech after the incident on Monday night, which came after a health crisis last week, according to sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends reported his stroke was so severe that he could only communicate by scrawling words on a sheet of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meghan&#8217;s half-brother Thomas Jr, 55, was with their father when he became ill in Rosario, Mexico, where he lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samantha, the father&#8217;s 57-year-old daughter, was said to be flying from Florida to be by his side Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My father is healing in the hospital,&#8221; she added in a statement. We want privacy for the sake of his family&#8217;s health and well-being.&#8221; He simply requires serenity and rest. Godspeed. We&#8217;re going to pray.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Markle, 77, became unwell in Mexico and was transported to the hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[1120],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trending","tag-stroke"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Megan Markle&#039;s father suffered a catastrophic stroke.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Friends reported his stroke was so severe that he could only communicate by scrawling words on a sheet of paper.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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