Meghan Markle’s father is to ungergo heart surgery which will stop him from walking his daughter down the aisle, it emerged last night.
After a day of confusion, in which he appeared to change his plans repeatedly, Thomas Markle announced via US celebrity website TMZ that he was due to have an operation and would not attend the Royal wedding on Saturday.
It marked a dramatic turn of events and came just hours after an earlier u-turn, in which he said he would be at the wedding.
The furore began on Monday when the 73-year-old said he would avoid the ceremony for fear of embarrassing his daughter in the wake of a controversy surrounding his collusion with the paparazzi.
However, on Tuesday he...