How Meghan Markle's father celebrated Christmas after major surgery?

Meghan Markle’s father Thomas Markle has shared a major health update from hospital in the Philippines following surgery there.

Speaking to the Mail on Sunday, Thomas Markle said that he was now in the hospital's rehabilitation unit in the Philippine city of Cebu where he moved with his son Thomas Jr. at the start of this year.

According to Thomas Markle’s son, he celebrated Christmas at his father's bedside alongside his girlfriend and Mr Markle's private nurse Christine.

Thomas Markle Jr. said, “Dad's doing remarkably well considering what he's been through. Rose and I visited him for Christmas and took him a card with tinsel and a few sweets taped to the inside.

“He's on a special diet and has had to drastically cut back on sugar but the doctors said he could have a couple of candies to celebrated Christmas.”

Meghan Markle’s half-brother went on saying, “He was able to get out of bed and was taken by a wheelchair to a recreation room where he enjoyed food and entertainment with some of the other rehab patients.”

He added Thomas Markle is in ‘good spirits, grateful to be alive and working really hard to get better”.

“He is a brave man and is determined to walk again with the aid of a prosthetic leg”, Junior Markle continued.