Meghan’s handwriting shows she is desperate to hide her true feelings

The handwritten letter from Meghan Markle to her estranged father Thomas reveals her pain at his constant remarks to the press, an expert has said.

In excerpts published in the Mail on Sunday, the Duchess tells Mr Markle: ‘If you love me, as you tell the press you do, please stop. Please allow us to live our lives in peace.’

A handwriting expert says the letter, in which Meghan accuses her father of breaking her heart ‘into a million pieces’, reveals disappointment and a desperate need for approval.

Graphologist Tracey Trussell told Metro.co.uk that the stylised calligraphic nature of Meghan’s letter also shows she has a ‘perfectionist streak’ and is a ‘bit of a control freak’.

As her letters slant to the right, it shows she is highly emotional and reveals a vulnerability in the Duchess, but Tracey says it also highlights her desire to ‘hide her true feelings’.

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‘This is a romantic, passionate and devoted woman,’ Tracey said.

She added: ‘While we may never know what lies behind the carefully constructed facade, what we do know is that there is a reservoir of deep feeling, as well as a desire to do things properly and get things right.

‘The whole piece of writing has clockwork regularity, and the rhythm is stilted, which shows how much self-discipline Meghan exerts to keep her emotions and actions under control, so she doesn’t do or say the wrong thing.

‘Meghan will not leave anything to chance – she’s a stickler for getting things right – she has very high standards, and ultimately the motivation that sits behind this, is social approval.’

In part of the five-page letter, Meghan writes that Thomas has not reached out to her since her wedding to Prince Harry last May.

‘While you claim you have no way of contacting me, my phone number has remained the same,’ the Duchess writes.

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‘This you know. No texts, no missed calls, no outreach from you – just more global interviews you’re being paid to do to say harmful and hurtful things that are untrue.’

She also adds: ‘You’ve said I never helped you financially and you’ve never asked me for help which is also untrue; you sent me an email last October that said: “If I’ve depended too much on you for financial help then I’m sorry but please if you could help me more not as a bargaining chip for my loyalty”.’

Mr Markle, 74, a former Hollywood lighting director who now lives in Mexico, did not attend his daughter’s wedding after he suffered two heart attacks days before he was set to walk her down the aisle.

Meghan writes that she learned of Thomas’ heart attack ‘through a tabloid’ – a revelation which she calls ‘horrifying’.

Tracey said: ‘There are many starting and covering strokes at the beginning of words – seen in the thickness of letters, where the strokes have been retraced – which tells us how much thought she has given to writing this letter, and how hard she was trying to say the right thing and be the strong person.

‘These almost invisible accoutrements reveal how something that has happened in the past has been a source of disappointment for her.

‘She has strong left tendencies where her endstrokes sweep up and backwards, which reveal how much she reflects about things that have happened to her in the past, and how it’s impossible for her to forget people who have meant so much to her in her life.’

She added: ‘The spacing of the words is tellingly quite wide and irregular, which tells us that she gave great thought and consideration to the content of what she was saying, to the extent that it was naturally causing her to feel quite a bit of anxiety.

‘This matter is clearly affecting Meghan deeply.’

Last week, five of Meghan’s closest friends gave a series of interviews with People where they said the Duchess has ‘silently sat back and endured lies and untruths’ and claimed Thomas has ‘never called; never texted’ and it’s ‘super painful’.

Thomas Markle publicly released the letter as a result of those interviews and told the Mail on Sunday he initially thought it might be an ‘olive branch’ but said: ‘Instead, it was a dagger to the heart.’