In 2019, Samantha Markle told The Sun that her daughter’s allegations of abuse were not true, claiming a court found there was no evidence. She could not be reached for comment by The Telegraph.
“[My grandmother] always knew who to go to. The police got involved, my dad came and picked me up, and I went for the weekend. I didn’t go back,” she says.
Samantha Markle, 61, has defended her father, suggesting her mother’s accusations were born out of “hatred and bitterness”. She has also questioned Loveless’s credibility, describing her as an alcoholic.
‘She just spoke the truth’
Ms Rasmussen strongly rejects this characterisation of her grandmother. “Roslyn liked her drinks. We all like our drinks. Who doesn’t like a drink?” she says. “But she was extremely coherent. She was very well spoken.”
“If she put something in a letter, it’s more than likely what she had seen to be the truth or what she had experienced,” Ms Rasmussen says. “It was something that she either saw or heard or believed to be 100 per cent true.”
Her grandmother, she insists, was not someone who would invent allegations to damage another person’s reputation. “She just spoke the truth, no matter how ugly it was, and if she thought something was ugly, she would absolutely make a scene of it.”
Had Loveless known that her letter had not been passed on to overseas law enforcement, she would have been furious, Ms Rasmussen believes.