United Kingdom, March 29 -- Thomas Markle has found love with a Filipina nurse 35 years his junior.

The 81-year-old retired lighting director - who has been estranged from his daughter Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, since she married Prince Harry in 2018 - feels "blessed and beyond happy" after meeting Rio Canedo, 46, at the rehab clinic she works at in Cebu, Philippines, where he checked in to help with his recovery last December after having his lower left leg amputated.

He gushed to the Mail on Sunday newspaper: "I never expected to find joy and happiness again at my age. I felt neglected and sad for so many years but now I am enjoying life again.

"After so many tough times I feel truly blessed to have found someone very special who tak...