Meghan Markle’s shameless dad accused of faking photos ahead of royal wedding

Hope he wasn’t in charge of finding the wedding photographer.

Meghan Markle’s dad — who is set to give her away at Windsor Castle this week — secretly collaborated with a British paparazzo to stage lucrative photos of himself preparing for the wedding, according to a report Sunday.

Thomas Markle worked with LA-based celeb-snapper Jeff Rayner on the phony photos, which were peddled as supposedly candid shots, the Daily Mail on Sunday said, citing witnesses and CCTV footage.

The pictures showed Thomas Markle, 73, looking at news reports about his daughter’s wedding at an internet cafe, reading a magazine about British landmarks and even being fitted for a suit for his daughter’s wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday.

Witnesses reported seeing the dad and Rayner show up together and plan out the scenes in the three photo shoots.

“They didn’t stay long, probably about 10 minutes,’’ the internet cafe’s manager, Jessica Anaya, 34, told the Mail. “And they left together.”

At one point, the pair went to a tailor shop to take fake photos of the dad getting fitted for a suit, but the store was closed, the site said. Undeterred, they enlisted the help of a 17-year-old worker at a neighboring party goods store to pose as a clothier — and Markle, a retired Hollywood lighting director, whipped out his own tape measure for the kid to use, the Mail said.

“I just went along with it. I was telling him the measurements, but he didn’t write them down or anything,” said the party store worker, David Flores. “It was really strange.”

The snaps netted Rayner a reported $135,000. It was unclear whether the father of the bride reaped any of the windfall.

The photos surfaced after Britain’s royal family asked paparazzi to leave the dad alone. His reps even issued a letter to international media asking them to lay off him, saying all of the requests for interviews and photo shoots were intruding on his privacy.

Rayner’s agency, Rayner-Coleman, did not respond to a Post message seeking comment Sunday.

Rayner told the Daily Mail: “For all the questions, I have no comment. There is going to be no comment, thank you.”

Markle did not return a message left on his cellphone.

Kensington Palace declined to comment, the Mail reported.