PIERS Morgan has slammed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s “self-wallowing narcissism” during their interview with Oprah Winfrey as Prince Philip remains in hospital.
A dramatic sneak preview of the CBS interview with the couple was released in the early hours of this morning.
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Morgan accused Harry and Meghan of being “hypocrites” for complaining about being hounded by the press but also agreeing to the interview with Oprah.
The Good Morning Britain host also criticised Harry for saying life was “unbelievably tough” in California after leaving the Royal Family – while his grandfather Prince Philip is seriously ill in hospital.
Morgan wrote for the MailOnline: “I’ve watched all this with increasing disdain and repeatedly ridiculed their obvious double standards and extraordinarily arrogant desire to want to have their privacy cake and eat it as they exploit their royal status for huge financial gain.
“It really does take a staggering degree of self-wallowing narcissism to say those words after a year in which 2.5 million people have died in a global pandemic and tens of millions have lost their jobs and are suffering horrific financial hardship.
“To say them from the gloriously safe luxury of a Californian millionaire row, as the glorious year-round sun beats down on you and your family while you bank gazillions trading off your royal status, is the most tone-deaf load of entitled garbage since Marie Antoinette was told that starving French citizens had no bread and sneered: ‘Let them eat cake.'”
He also argued that despite Harry and Meghan claiming they wanted to be left alone by the media, the couple had announced an £18million Spotify podcast and a £112million Netflix documentary deal.
Morgan has been an outspoken critic of the couple and their decision to leave the Royals and move to the United States.
I’ve watched all this with increasing disdain and repeatedly ridiculed their obvious double standards
Piers Morgan on Meghan and Harry
In 2019, he lashed out at her for ghosting him when she married Prince Harry.
He said he was friendly with Meghan when she was a TV actress, but she later turned her back on their friendship.
Piers also claims she has turned her former Suits co-stars against him, urging them to drop him as a pal.
He told The Mirror: “I was friendly with Meghan but she ghosted me. I am not impressed.
“There seems to be a pattern of her doing that to people, it’s a bit worrying.
“From my personal experience, she is someone I thought I was pretty matey with and ‘bang’, she met somebody more important and that was it, and told other members of her show who I was friendly with to stop talking to me.”
This morning, Morgan compared “embarrassing” Harry and Meghan to dictators like Kim Jong-un.
He could not hide his outrage during today’s Good Morning Britain, where he locked horns with co-host Susanna Reid about the pair.
He kicked off the show ranting about Harry and Meghan doing the interview with Oprah, as well as Harry’s appearance on James Corden’s US show last week – having previously asked for privacy.
Susanna told him: “What he is objecting to is the negativity – it’s toxic.”
Piers retorted: “They only want positive media coverage, who else wants that? Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un – they only want positive media coverage, don’t they?
“That’s not how it works in a democracy.”
In the preview of Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah, the TV host said the couple had revealed “some pretty shocking things” – some of which seemed “almost unsurvivable”.
She also wanted to make it “clear to everybody there is no subject that is off limits”.
Holding hands with Meghan in an outdoor location understood to be Santa Barbara, California, Harry said: “You know for me, I’m just really relieved and happy to be sitting here, talking to you, with my wife by my side.
“Because I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her, going through this process by herself. All those years ago.
“Because it’s been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at least we had each other.”
