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Meghan has previously said she attended Northwestern University on a scholarship in a Sussex Royal Instagram post. This is despite her father’s previous claims that he paid for the duchess’s private school education, college fees, and her student loans from Northwestern University, even after she landed her role on Suits.

The claims of financial assistance from Thomas Markle were first brought to light at the beginning of the year, as part of ongoing legal action from the duchess against the Mail Online who published a private letter from the Meghan to her father back in 2018.

Now royal expert Leslie Carroll has said that the toxic relationship is never likely to ever repair between Thomas Markle and his daughter.

Asked on the current state of their relationship, Ms Carroll says that the elder Markle made his “bed” when he broke his daughter’s trust by leaking private letters to the media.

She told Express.co.uk: “Sadly, Thomas Markle made his bed when he violated his daughter’s privacy by releasing Meghan’s correspondence to the press and continuing to savagely badmouth her in public for the sake of clickbait and some press of his own.”

The royal author also claimed that staged paparazzi shots of Mr Markle just before Meghan’s wedding in 2018 were the beginning of the end of their relationship.

She said: “Prior to her marriage into the royal family, his posing for paparazzi in an effort to appear erudite was clearly a misfire.

“He has been speaking with forked tongue ever since, publicly trashing his daughter with one side of his mouth, while claiming to love her and wish to reconcile with the other. “

Mr Markle’s defence team accused Meghan of failing to mention the support he provided her through her childhood and youth.

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The documents stated: “Mr Markle had supported the claimant throughout her childhood and youth.

“He had paid her private school fees.

“He had paid all her college tuition and after she left Northwestern University he continued to pay off her student loans even after she had landed a well-paid role in suits.”

It added: “She did send him financial gifts occasionally, although he was still repaying her student loans, as stated above.”

Mr Markle continued to say that he supported Meghan during her time in LA searching for an acting job, and he sold 20,000 dollars worth of Facebook shares to fund her first wedding to producer Trevor Engelson in 2011.

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The documents stated: “However, since May 2018 (Meghan) has not supported him in any way, despite the fact that, as she knows, he has been ill and therefore has medical expenses, not all of which are covered by his insurance.”

In its defence statement, Associated Newspapers Limited said the duchess’s decision not to assist her father was “deserving of criticism”.

Meanwhile, Meghan’s half brother Thomas Markle Jnr has accused the duchess of making lies up about her family.

In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Meghan’s half-brother said: “The only thing I want to call her out on is lying on stage when she did that little…I don’t know what country it was but she was talking to a bunch of people telling them how with hard work and discipline and a job you can put yourself through college like I did.”

“Now that was just a straight out lie.

“My dad paid every nickel for her college.

“She got two scholarships – I don’t know where for – but she got two Fulbright Scholarships.

“I remember the conversation with my father on the phone, he was very happy and excited because, like I say, he updates me constantly my whole life on what Meghan is doing because that is all he ever talked about his whole life.

“And then he is a little upset because she wants to go to Northwestern, and she didn’t get a scholarship to Northwestern – she got Daddy’s scholarship to Northwestern.

Meghan’s half-brother also claimed their father has “all the receipts” after Meghan’s latest Instagram post uploaded to the @sussexroyal account, said she had attended university with the help of a scholarship.

He continued: “For her to do a public lie about that, that hurt my dad’s feelings as well, and that is why he is coming out and doing interviews and stuff like that because he wants the truth out there.”