The granddaughter of disgraced Thomas Markle Sr has reacted with horror after learning of the stash of child pornography unearthed by the Daily Mail inside a storage locker he rented in Rosarito, Mexico.
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The Daily Mail alerted the FBI to the storage unit in Mexico last week, leading to a weekend raid by Mexican authorities.
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Markle, 82, is currently being investigated by authorities in the Philippines over another hoard of abuse material uncovered at his former home in Cebu.
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Now, in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Noel Rasmussen, 28, whose mother, Samantha, 61, is the half-sister of the Duchess of Sussex, described the new findings as 'shocking' and said the disgusting cache needs to be taken seriously by the authorities.
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In a bombshell revelation, Noel also revealed that she had unwittingly helped send the letter containing child sex abuse allegations against Markle that eventually reached her aunt Meghan and prompted the Duchess of Sussex to cut ties with him.
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Noel said her late grandmother, Roslyn Loveless, Markle's first wife, had asked her to mail the letter to Meghan in London, but never told her of its contents.
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It's disturbing,' Noel said, speaking from her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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'Roslyn never mentioned anything relating to pedophilia to me about Sr.
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She just had the typical ex-wife gripes about him,' she added.
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The findings in Mexico include naked photos of females who appear conspicuously young as well as explicit magazines showing young children being sexually exploited.
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There is also a photo of Markle on a bed with his arm around a young Asian female; while both are clothed, she appears nude in other pictures.
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In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Noel Rasmussen, 28, the youngest daughter of Samantha Markle, 61, described the new findings as 'shocking.'
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Pictured with her late grandmother Roslyn Loveless in 2019, Noel revealed she helped send the letter containing child sex abuse allegations that eventually reached her aunt Meghan
Meghan Markle, pictured as a teenager, has been estranged from her father, Thomas Markle Sr, for years
Meghan's niece Noel (above) broke her silence over the disturbing allegations against her grandfather Thomas Markle Sr in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail
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'Like she didn't like some of his behavior.
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He stayed out too late; he came home too late.
'Sometimes he came home smelling like perfume.
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She never explicitly told me to stay away from him or said he's a pedophile to me.'
Roslyn, who was 79 when she died at her home in Albuquerque in 2024,
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repeatedly claimed that her erstwhile husband had cheated on her during their marriage but never made the exploitation claims in public.
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Meghan, 45, meanwhile, has since publicly condemned her father and said she cut ties with him in 2019 after learning of child sex allegations in a letter from Loveless sent to her.
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Noel says her aunt's decision to cut herself off from Markle is entirely understandable in light of the allegations, adding she would do the same if she had a daughter.
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'You know, I believe that she's completely warranted in that,' Noel said.
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'I wouldn't want to give him the potential or the chance or the opportunity to create another victim.
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This is just something that's too serious to be taken lightly in her case.
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Noel, who was born and raised in New Mexico, more than 800 miles from Markle's former homes in Los Angeles and Mexico, said she saw relatively little of her grandfather growing up – which she, at the time, put down to the physical distance.
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Thomas Markle Sr (pictured in 2018), 82, is facing investigations in the Philippines and by the FBI after child pornography was found at properties linked to him
Markle Sr's son, Thomas Markle Jr (center) claims to have discovered a cache of child pornography at his father's former home in Cebu, Philippines, triggering renewed scrutiny.
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The two men are pictured together in an undated family photo (Source: Courtesy of Noel Rasmussen)
When she did see him, she says, he appeared kind and caring and never behaved inappropriately towards her.
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'He came to visit several times, I want to say four or five times, maybe.
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I never got the sense that, you know, this is a creepy man.
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'I never felt weirded out by him.
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I was never creeped out by him.
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He never acted inappropriately.
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He never acted strange with me.'
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Markle Sr has been at the center of a storm for over a week – sparked by son Thomas Markle Jr, 60, revealing he had uncovered a stash of child pornography at the former lighting director's pad in Cebu.
The elder Markle, who is now living in a senior care home in Florida after losing a leg last December, has strongly denied the claims – despite appearing in some of the photos found by the Daily Mail in his rented storage locker.
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He has, however, confessed to paying for sex with prostitutes during his travels in Asia, but insisted they were of legal age.
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Noel said the latest revelations have left her struggling to reconcile the allegations with the memory of the man she grew up knowing as her grandfather.
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'One of the hardest parts here is that there isn't really a neat or simple way to process something like this,' she said.
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Meghan has since spoken out against her father and confirmed she cut ties with him after she was first alerted to 'disturbing' allegations against him eight years ago
Noel's mother, Samantha Markle (pictured left with her half-sister Meghan Markle years ago), has publicly defended her father amid the allegations (Source: X/ Samantha Markle)
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'You know, you can have really complicated feelings about somebody being your grandfather while also recognizing that all these allegations of this nature are incredibly serious.'
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Of her own mother, Samantha, the only member of the family who has publicly defended Markle, Noel said she thinks her mom is desperate not to believe the worst.
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'I really do not blame her for trying to defend her father because at the end of the day, that's still her dad,' Noel said.
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'I mean, why would you want to believe something like this, something that's serious about your own parent?
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