The Pain of Separation is having a "Mental Toll" on Meghan Markel's Father
Last updated on September 24th, 2018
Thomas Markel has not spoken to his daughter, Meghan Markel since she wed Prince Harry, and fears that he will "locked out" forever, following his interviews about her marriage to Prince Harry.
Thomas, who is going through a rough phase commented "I don't expect to see her or hear her back from her and that's ok." Further expressing that he believes that it is his interviews that had "locked the door, pulled the windows down and closed the shades" between him and the royals.
Tragically, the situation has become a lot awkward between the two, and looks like is also having a mental toll on Thomas. Despite, his unabashed front displayed publically, he has expressed that all he desires is to go on a vacation and try to get some peace.
The Mental Toll
Just in the hope that things would get better, the ex-lighting director, Thomas was expecting that he would receive a birthday card from Meghan last month, however the things did not happen as per the plan, and nothing turned up. On the other hand, Thomas did send two cards to his daughter when she turned 37, earlier this month.
The level of desperation to hear from her daughter is clearly a sky high, but his fear of her never returning back is now becoming more than just a theory. Speaking about the relation with Megan, Thomas said, "She is even further away now than she was before." He added, "I just want a father daughter relationship. If that means Christmas cards, birthday cards and getting together for holidays—that is what I want.
Thomas who puts up in Rosarito, Mexico, also presented a clearer picture by recalling how the telephonic discussion between him and Harry once got intense. He was in Sharp Chula Vista Medical Centre, San Deigo, having had a heart surgery following a heart attack, a few days before the marriage.
Besides, when Harry and Meghan called, the Prince who had warned him not to speak to media, in his aggression said "This is what happens when you do not listen to what we tell you to do." His sentiments were clearly hurt and he said, "I was recovering from a heart attack, lying in a bed, having a phone call, and the things were being said that hurt me. I felt disrespected by them. I felt like I was being blamed for my mistakes when I was in my hospital bed recovering from a heart attack. I felt like I had to defend myself."
The debate has only heated since then, and Thomas's depression or say mental toll is having a huge impact on him. All he awaits is a day in his life, where he would hear from his daughter, Meghan.
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The final countdown for Theresa May's departure from the Downing Street has begun. The questions surrounding the legacy of May should come to rest after she announces a pay rise of worth £2 billion for the public sector next week.
The announcement for the raise, which is the biggest in six years, will be one of the final acts of May as the Prime Minister.
In 2010, the public sector did not see any raise for two years excluding the members of society, who were earning less than £21,000, following which the limit of 1 percent was imposed on the raise which is below the inflation rate.
Around two million workers comprising of police officers, soldiers, teachers and other school staff, and dentists and consultants will receive the pay rise. Soldiers will receive the highest raise of 2.9 percent; followed by raise of 2.75 percent to the teachers and other school staff; a raise of 2.5 percent to police officers, dentists and consultants and finally a raise of 2 percent to senior civil servants.
It is also believed that rise for the public sector is expected to come from the prevailing budgets. The only exception of the announcement is that an extra funding might be provided for the schools.
Regarding May's announcement, Jonathan Cribb, a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, in lieu of the pay raise said, "These public sector pay rises are higher than last year's and considerably higher than the 1 per cent for many years before that."
"It is the highest nominal pay increase since the coalition. But these increases are still slower than pay rises that are happening on average in the private sector. With the partial exception of schools, there seems to be no new money to fund these pay rises, meaning savings will have to be made elsewhere."
The move has led to various people speculating about the consequences and the real reason behind it. Some consider it to be a desperate attempt by May to save her legacy. On the other hand, many people think that the raise might have an impact on the budget of the public services.
With people still debating over the impact of the yet to be made announcement about the pay rise, the only thing which can be said with certainty is, May's departure might bring some happiness for workers of the public sector.
Iranian officials' act of abruptly arresting people with UK-Iran dual citizenship has strained the relations of both the countries. The British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who became a victim to such unfortunate detention in September 2016 in Tehran, has now been shifted to a psychiatric ward of a hospital in Iran.
Iranian authorities arrested Nazanin at Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport, while she was travelling with her daughter in April 2016. Since then the British-Iranian mother has been detained in Iran's capital Tehran, facing charges of spreading "propaganda against the regime", despite her continuous attempts of denying the allegations.
Having spent almost three years away from her family in prison, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has incurred various health issues. Observing her worsening condition, Iranian officials transferred her from Evin prison to the mental health ward of Imam Khomeini hospital on Monday.
Nazanin's husband Richard Ratcliffe claimed that Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been preventing her relatives, including Nazanin's father from contacting her. The practice of political prisoners being guarded by Revolutionary Guard Cops rather than the regular prison guards seemed an unusual practice to Nazanin's relatives, who further raised serious concerns over her health.
Before being transferred to the ward she said, "I was healthy and happy when I came to Iran to see my parents. Three and a bit years later and I am admitted to a mental health clinic.
"Look at me now, I ended up in an asylum. It should be an embarrassment. Prison is getting harder and harder for me. I hate being played in the middle of a political game. I just hate it," Nazanin added.
On Wednesday, Richard Ratcliffe said, "Nazanin hoped that her hunger strike would move the Iranian authorities, and it clearly has."
"Hopefully, her transfer to hospital means that she is getting treatment and care, despite my distrust of just what pressures can happen behind closed doors. It is unnerving when we don't know what is going on."
Earlier, prime-ministerial candidate Boris Johnson's inaccurate comments further complicated Nazanin's case, when he told the media that she was teaching people journalism in Iran. However, he later corrected his statements.
Recently, a similar case as that of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffehas been witnessed in Iran. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrested Fariba Afelkhah, a Franco-Iranian citizen, as a hostage, restricting Afelkhah's contact with the French consular staff.
With Iranian officials' misusing their powers by making hostages and not giving any satisfactory response for the arrests to the respective nationals, the issue has become a subject of international concern. There is a need for all the European countries to act together and abolish the irrelevant practice that has been prevailing in Iran.
Nerve wrecking Cricket World Cup final that had all the flavours of a cricket match, the 12th edition of the tournament that crowned England as the champions, for the first time in 44 years, should have actually gone otherwise.
In a quest for World Cup glory at Lord's, Mecca of cricket, as both sides traded sweat for sweat – the Kiwis' should have emerged out as winners; with England falling a run short of their original target.
One of the vital moments of the game in England's innings came off the third-last bowl from Trent Boult, when Martin Guptill's throw accidentally deflected from Ben Stokes' bat to reach the boundary, whilst he was rushing back to complete his second run.
The event meant that English Lions were awarded six runs in all- two for the runs completed by Stokes and Adil Rashid, and four for the deflected overthrow. The incident reduced the equation for England to three runs off two balls, with the home side going on to tie both the match and super over, and eventually winning the match via margin of boundaries (26-17) in their favor.
However, it has now come forward that England should have actually banked 5 runs and not six from the dramatic delivery. As per the MCC Rule 19:8, in an event of overthrow, the runs scored are the allowance for the boundary and "the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act," should add up to form the total number of runs scored.
As per the proofs available, Stokes and Rashid did not cross each other when the Kiwi fielder, Guptill, threw back the ball from the boundary, meaning England were awarded an extra run in the event.
"It's a clear mistake, it's an error of judgment," said former international umpire Simon Taufel, in an interview with Fox Sports Australia. "In the heat of what was going on, they thought there was a good chance the batsmen had crossed at the instant of the throw. Obviously TV replays showed otherwise."
"The difficulty umpires have here is you've got to watch batsmen completing runs, then change focus and watch for the ball being picked up, and watch for the release of the throw," he added.
Though the Cricket World Cup final result cannot be changed now, but it raises a serious question on umpires who could have made use of the available technology before awarding a crucial extra run to England.
The UK on Saturday attempted to ease off the increasing Iranian tensions that have intensified due to various sanctions imposed on Iran. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's comments of possible attempts to progress the release of a captured Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, in return of an assurance that the ship would avoid breaching the European sanctions on oil shipments to Syria, brought a relief to the Iranians.
The Iranian super tanker was carrying 2.1 million barrels of light crude oil, when the British Royal Marines seized it off from Gibraltar earlier this month.
Hunt claimed that the UK would resolve the situation by following due process in Gibraltar courts, only if they could get sufficient guarantees from Iran. "This was about the enforcement of EU Syria sanctions: action was taken because of where the oil was going – a sanctioned Syrian entity – – not because it was from Iran," Hunt said.
The news came amid European nations' calls for new talks to de-escalate the growing tensions in the Persian Gulf. Troubled by the attacks that have led to the deterioration of the security in the Gulf, the leaders of Britain, France, and Germany called for talks to end "the escalation of tensions" on Sunday.
Post the seizing of the Iranian oil tanker, the Iranian paramilitary attempted to hinder the British oil tanker's path, which was travelling through the Strait of Hormuz. However, the verbal warnings from British navy, accompanying the ship forced the Iranian vessels to turn away.
In an effort to ease up the chaos created by seizing of the Iranian oil tanker, Hunt held a "constructive call" with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, reassuring him by saying, "our concern was the destination, not the origin, of the oil".
In return, Zarif also cleared the false beliefs saying Iran also wants to end the ongoing rifts in the Gulf.
Describing his talks with Zarif, Hunt wrote, "Was told by FM Zarif that Iran wants to resolve issue and is not seeking to escalate. Also spoke to [Gibraltar's chief minister] Fabian Picardo who is doing an excellent job coordinating issue and shares UK perspective on the way forward."
The Iranian tensions have been escalating after US' withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal, wherein the latter failed to keep its promise of halting the production of enriched uranium.
The threatening circumstances advanced by the US sanctions have not only affected the Iranian economy but also severed Iran's relations with other nations. Furthermore, seizing of the Iranian oil tanker by the UK was seen as an act of adding fuel to the fire.
The UK's attempt to resolve the issues have been highly appreciated by other nations. Though the question remains as to whether these steps would permanently bring an end to the intensified situations in the Gulf, improving the UK-Iran relations or vice-versa.