It looks like Meghan Markle's regular pleas for privacy have fallen on deaf ears. In addition to harassment from the press, many of her fellow celebs have now turned on the former working royal.
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00:00It looks like Meghan Markle's regular pleas for privacy have fallen on deaf ears.
00:05In addition to harassment from the press, many of her fellow celebs have now turned
00:09on the former working royal.
00:11Donald Trump might have praise for the royal family, but he's taken a dim view of Prince
00:15Harry and Meghan Markle.
00:17Trump spoke about the couple encouraging Americans to vote for his opponent Joe Biden in a 2020
00:21press conference and singled out Meghan.
00:23I'm not a fan of hers.
00:25I wish a lot of luck to Harry, because he's gonna need it."
00:31In a subsequent TV appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Trump characterized Meghan as
00:35being the dominant one in their relationship, essentially controlling Harry.
00:39I wanna know what's gonna happen when Harry decides he's had enough of being bossed around,
00:44or maybe when she decides that she likes some other guy better."
00:47Throughout the interview, Trump zeroed in on the couple's relationship several more
00:51times.
00:52I won't use the full expression, but Harry is whipped like no person I think I've ever
00:57seen.
00:58Chris Rock has never been afraid to speak his mind while doing stand-up.
01:00In his 2023 Netflix special Selective Outrage, he took aim at Meghan with characteristic
01:05candor while discussing how she and many other people seem to be adopting the role of victim.
01:10Seemed like a nice lady.
01:13Just complaining.
01:14I was like, didn't she hit the light-skinned lottery?
01:17Rock also mocked Meghan's claims of being shocked when she allegedly encountered racism
01:21from some members of the royal family.
01:23Gone on Oprah, I didn't know.
01:25I had no idea how racist they were.
01:28It's the royal family!
01:30Rock then doubled down, pointing out the chequered history of the British monarchy on that particular
01:34topic.
01:35They invented colonialism.
01:36They're the OGs of racism.
01:39They're the Sugarhill Gang of racism.
01:44Howard Stern has made a lot of enemies thanks to his very public opinions.
01:48After he weighed in on the Harry and Meghan Netflix series, it's likely Meghan is among
01:52them.
01:53Speaking on his SiriusXM show, the radio host said the pair came across as whiny.
01:57And while he admitted he felt compassion for Harry about the loss of his mother, Princess
02:01Diana, and the shoddy treatment she received from the royal family, he'd ultimately lost
02:05patience with Harry and Meghan's antics.
02:07It's just very weird to watch two people who keep screaming, we wanted our privacy, and
02:12then what is their special?
02:14He went on to highlight that the Harry and Meghan series revealed so much about their
02:18family and private life in spite of the many issues they've voiced with media attention
02:22over the years.
02:23Stern also played TV critic by sharing his blunt review of Harry and Meghan as a show.
02:28It's like the Kardashians, except boring.
02:31Newspaper editor-turned-TV personality Piers Morgan has spent his career dishing on Britain's
02:35royal family.
02:37While he's praised some and vilified others, he initially emerged as one of Meghan's early
02:41supporters.
02:42That was evident from his 2017 tweet celebrating news of her engagement to Prince Harry.
02:46Referencing his then-positive relationship with Meghan, he wrote,
02:50"'My friend will make the perfect modern bride.'"
02:52He followed that up by congratulating Harry in a Daily Mail column in which he described
02:56the future Duchess of Sussex as a,
02:58"...a real keeper."
02:59In time, though, Morgan did a complete 180.
03:02He transformed from one of Meghan's biggest supporters to one of her most vehement critics.
03:06In 2018, he wrote a Daily Mail column that thoroughly eviscerated her.
03:10It read, in part,
03:11"...Meghan Markle is a ruthless social-climbing actress who has landed the role of her life
03:15and is determined to milk it for all she can."
03:18Since then, Morgan has continued to go for the jugular.
03:20"...Nobody set out to destroy you.
03:22You destroyed yourselves in this country with your ludicrous, hypocritical behavior."
03:27He offered some particularly venomous words in yet another Daily Mail column criticizing
03:31Meghan's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
03:34He wrote,
03:35"...Meghan behaved like such a gormless, desperate reality TV star on her vomit-making Ellen
03:39Cheese Fest that even a Kardashian would have deemed this humiliating fiasco too brand-damaging."
03:45Daytime television host Wendy Williams was in rare form when she shared her thoughts
03:49about Meghan during a 2019 episode of The Wendy Williams Show.
03:52At the time, Meghan had just given an interview in which she claimed to have had no idea of
03:57the degree of scrutiny she'd be under after marrying Prince Harry, a notion that Williams
04:01found to be wildly implausible.
04:03"...Meghan Markle, nobody feels sorry for you.
04:05You knew what you were signing up for, girl."
04:07Williams continued to poke holes in Meghan's assertion of ignorance that marrying Harry
04:10would catapult her to the upper echelons of fame.
04:13In Williams' words, she shouldn't have been surprised by the increased paparazzi, quote,
04:17"...because you're now a royal."
04:18She pointed out that photographers never followed Meghan around while she was on suits and proceeded
04:22to remind viewers that a desperate Meghan had once tried to get a job on her show as
04:26a model.
04:28Bethany Frankel has never been one to keep her opinions to herself.
04:31That personality trait served her well as one of the Real Housewives of New York City,
04:35and then as host of her own daytime talk show.
04:38Not surprisingly, Frankel has plenty to say about Meghan in a video posted to TikTok.
04:42"...I can't imagine having so much at your fingertips and letting it all slip away."
04:49She went on to comment that what she perceived as the Duchess of Sussex's grandiose self-importance,
04:53"...thinking every single thing that you do and say and want is so fascinating, that you
04:59should be accepting awards at podiums."
05:02The reality star also expressed how baffled she was that Meghan's various attempts at
05:06generating positive press for herself inevitably wound up making things worse.
05:10She concluded her screed by taking a shot at Meghan's attempts to paint herself as some
05:13kind of modern-day martyr because she'd allegedly been treated poorly by her royal in-laws.
05:18"...You're not, you know, Mahatma Gandhi."
05:21Like her pal Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne has a long history of holding Meghan Markle
05:25in low esteem.
05:26That opinion was on full display during one of her frequent appearances on Piers Morgan
05:30Uncensored, during which the two discussed the Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary series.
05:35Osbourne directly highlighted the numerous allegations of victimization that Meghan made
05:39during the documentary.
05:40"...It was all very distasteful, Piers.
05:42I was totally bored by the whining, the whining, the whining."
05:47Osbourne also took issue with Meghan's recollection of being forced to curtsy when meeting Queen
05:51Elizabeth, and that Meghan compared the vibe in Buckingham Palace to that of the medieval
05:54times restaurant chain.
05:56"...It's just so horribly disrespectful and just a wine fest."
06:00Osbourne expressed similar sentiments in the spring of 2024 when she appeared on Britain's
06:04Celebrity Big Brother and put forth her two cents about the Sussexes.
06:08She said,
06:09"...I think everyone is fed up of their moaning."
06:11Hell froze over in 2024 when the perpetually feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher announced
06:17they were burying the hatchet to reunite for an Oasis tour.
06:20Prior to that, though, the majority of headlines the siblings made were generated by slinging
06:24mud at each other in the press.
06:25But back in 2021, Noel took a break from bashing his brother to take some shots at Prince Harry
06:30during an expletive-laden interview with The Sun.
06:33He compared his own sibling battles with Liam to those of Princes William and Harry, saying,
06:38"...he's got a f----- younger brother shooting his f----- mouth off for s---- that is just
06:41so unnecessary.
06:42I'd like to think I was always the William."
06:44Gallagher went on to call Harry a
06:46"...woke snowflake among another string of expletives," and criticized him for talking
06:50badly about his family.
06:51Ultimately, though, Noel felt that Harry's behavior was being entirely driven by his
06:55wife.
06:56The guitarist stated,
06:57"...this is what happens when you get involved with Americans.
06:59As simple as that."
07:00For viewers of his shows, a big part of Jeremy Clarkson's appeal has been his tendency to
07:05voice his unfiltered opinions.
07:07That held true in an op-ed that Clarkson wrote about Meghan for The Sun.
07:10In that column, the former Top Gear host wrote that he was, quote, "...dreaming of the day
07:14when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while crowds
07:18chant shame and throw lumps of excrement at her."
07:21Many readers complained that Clarkson's rhetoric was hateful, incendiary, and sexist.
07:25This assessment was upheld by Britain's independent press standards organization, who required
07:29The Sun to publish an adjudication on its front page acknowledging that the op-ed breached
07:33code.
07:35A recent television backlash hurled at Clarkson, who wrote that he hated Meghan on a cellular
07:38level, spurred him to reluctantly issue an apology.
07:41In a since-deleted Instagram post, he wrote,
07:44"...I really am sorry.
07:45All the way from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head."
07:49Throughout her long career, journalist and Daily Beast founder Tina Brown has written
07:52numerous books about the royals.
07:54Her most recent, The Palace Papers, delves into the myriad scandals and turmoil that
07:59has surrounded the House of Windsor for the past few decades.
08:02During a 2024 appearance on The Ankler podcast, Brown offered a blunt assessment of the Duchess
08:06of Sussex when commenting on her husband.
08:08"...I think he's pretty much in the thrall of Meghan.
08:11The trouble with Meghan is that she has the worst judgment of anyone in the entire world."
08:16Brown was just winding up, claiming that Meghan cast a spell on Harry to make him believe
08:20she had the know-how to catapult them both to superstardom.
08:24Brown then noted how that didn't happen, and she accused Meghan of continually seeking
08:27out experts for their sage advice and then ignoring it completely.
08:31"...and all of her ideas are total crap, you know, unfortunately."
08:35Meghan Kelly is certainly no stranger to stirring up controversy in the media, and she had some
08:39scathing words about Meghan and Harry after their Oprah Winfrey interview.
08:43Alongside a clip from the special, Kelly tweeted,
08:45"'Give me a break.
08:46Have you ever seen such privileged people wallowing in their own perceived victimhood
08:49like this?'
08:50When Kelly was interviewed by Good Morning Britain, she recalled how Americans were initially
08:54excited about how a black American woman joining the royal family would modernize an outdated
08:59institution.
09:00At least, until they got to know Meghan."
09:01"'But what I saw tonight was somebody who was totally un-self-aware.
09:05I mean, completely unaware of how she sounded.'"
09:09She went on to openly mock Meghan's revelations in the interview.
09:12"'I wasn't planning on saying anything shocking, except for my husband's racist family almost
09:18drove me to suicidal thoughts while I was pregnant.'"
09:21Kelly also mocked Meghan's claims of being surprised by all the attention that the media
09:25placed on her.
09:26Unlike others on this list, the reporter balked at the notion that Meghan didn't understand
09:30what she was signing up for.
09:32"'She became a royal.
09:34She married a prince.
09:35The press is gonna cover you.'"
09:37Singer-turned-ET Canada host Keisha Chanté has spoken her mind about Harry and Meghan
09:42multiple times, and she's been blunt.
09:44In May 2021, for example, she commented on Harry's assertion that the First Amendment
09:48was "'bonkers' when complaining about being followed by paparazzi wherever he goes."
09:52As a Canadian who was then living in Los Angeles, Chanté admitted that, if Harry was seeking
09:57a place where he could live in privacy, L.A. wasn't it.
09:59"'Strange to me because it's like, you have that life and you chose to move to L.A.'
10:04Previously, Chanté admitted during an episode of ET Canada that she also found herself perturbed
10:09by a certain habit of Meghan's when she and Harry are interviewed.
10:12She said,
10:13"'On a side note, it always trips me out when Meghan stares at Harry while he's talking.
10:17I'm always like, what are you looking at?
10:19Is there something in his teeth?
10:20Like, what's happening?
10:21What are y'all looking at?
10:22Can I see too?'