Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle , is in intensive care in a hospital in the Philippines after he was rushed into emergency surgery. The 81-year-old was in surgery for three hours and will require further surgery to remove a blood clot, as his son, Thomas Jr., told the Daily Mail .

"I took dad to a hospital close to our home, and they did various scans, and the doctors said his life was in imminent danger," he recalled.

© ITV/Shutterstock Thomas was rushed to hospital in the Philippines

"They raced us by ambulance, with the sirens going, to a much bigger hospital in the centre of the city. My dad has undergone emergency surgery. I would ask everyone around the world to keep him in their thoughts."

Thomas shares his youngest daughter, the Duchess of Sussex, with Doria Ra

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