Piers Morgan Uncensored - Piers Morgan Uncensored: Megflix - The Uncensored Take

Episode Date: December 8, 2022

On tonight's special edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Piers reacts to Meghan and Harry’s explosive new documentary with Meghan's half-brother Thomas Markle Jr. Kehinde Andrews clashes with Piers... over claims of racism towards Meghan Markle in the media. Civil Rights Leader Alveda C. King also shares her views, and much more... Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored at 8 pm on TalkTV on Sky 522, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217. Listen on DAB+ and the app.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 We weren't, to my point is we weren't allowed to tell our story because they didn't want. We've never been last time. Until now. No matter how hard I tried, no matter how good I was, they were still going to find a way to destroy me. Being part of this family, it is my duty to uncover this exploitation and bribery that happens within our media. I'm generally concerned for the safety of my family. I just really want to get to the other side of all of this. We just really want to get to the other side of all this
Starting point is 00:00:34 before we're destroyed, because everybody's so horrible to us. Oh, shut up. Get your sick buckets ready. Tonight on Pierce Morgan Unsensit. It's the nauseating, self-serving snooze fest the whole world is raging about. Live from London, this is Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Starting point is 00:00:58 Good evening from London. Welcome to Piers Morgan Unsensored. Tonight, we'll devote the whole show to the impact of Harry and Monsored. Megan's attack on the monarchy, on the royal family, on Britain. We're all a bunch of callous racists who've wrecked their lives, which is why they're now living in a mansion in California, earning gazillions of dollars to continue trashing Britain, the royal family,
Starting point is 00:01:20 and the monarchy. I'll talk exclusively to Megan's half-brother Thomas, whose own family were trashed comprehensively again by Megan in the Netflix documentary, and there'll be live reaction from viewers across the UK. But first, here's my uncensored take. And a warning, tonight's show contains spoilers. Well, Harry and Megan's Netflix series, released to the world this morning, is packed with, well, not really revelations, are they?
Starting point is 00:01:44 It's sort of rehashed old revelations with a new twist. As it turns out, we've apparently been wrong all along. Britain is a nasty, racist hellhole, where only magnificent Meghan stood up to all this, and the world's biggest victims are not the people of Ukraine or the people battling COVID, or people struggling. and a devastating cost of living crisis. No, the world's biggest victims right now
Starting point is 00:02:07 are the Duke and Duchess of Netflix. And don't take my word for it. This promise of once you're married, don't worry, it'll get better. Once they get used to you, it'll get better. Of course it'll get better. But truth be told, no matter how hard I tried, no matter how good I was,
Starting point is 00:02:35 no matter what I did, they were still going to find a way. to destroy me. Yeah, nobody set out to destroy you. You destroyed yourselves in this country with your ludicrous, hypocritical behaviour. The truth be told, what she just said is completely nothing garbage.
Starting point is 00:02:57 Harry and Megan's romance, engagement, and marriage were all greeted with ecstatic joy by the British media, the public, and the royal family that they've all now abandoned. That's the truth. Not Harry and Megan's truth, but the actual truth. The first three hours of this Netflix series painted a very different, far uglier picture.
Starting point is 00:03:14 of this country and our royal family. Eight days after the relationship became public, I put out a statement, calling out the racist undertones of articles and headlines that were written by the British press. I wasn't thinking about how race played a part in any of this. I genuinely didn't think about it. Some of the members of the family was like,
Starting point is 00:03:32 right, but my wife had to go through that. So why should your girlfriend be treated any differently? Why should you get special treatment? Why should she be protected? And I said, the difference here is the race, I sometimes call the Commonwealth Empire 2.0 because that is what it is. There is a huge level of unconscious bias. The thing with unconscious bias is actually no one's fault.
Starting point is 00:03:56 But once it's been pointed out or identified within yourself, you then need to make it right. Yep, we're all racist, apparently. Sounds like a different country. But let's be clear, Britain's one of the most tolerant and multicultural nations in the world. We celebrated the glamorous modern flair of the world. the new young royals, we eulogized the newly biracial monarchy as the fresh face of 21st century Britain. I wrote newspaper columns about it myself, including on the day of the wedding.
Starting point is 00:04:24 The press and public only turned on Harry and Megan when their behaviour became obnoxious, self-serving, and rankly hypocritical. Sadly, millions of people around the world will watch this series, and they'll believe it. They'll believe the smears about Britain and our monarchy, that were a bunch of bigoted and hateful people. They even blamed Brexit for the racism which apparently was aimed at Megan Markle, which is just completely absurd. But I thought the most sickening part of this show for me was the constant use of Harry's late mother, Princess Diana,
Starting point is 00:04:55 to stoke sympathy for Megan. So much of what Megan is and how she is is so similar to my mum. She has the same compassion, she has the same empathy, she has the same confidence, she has this warmth about her. I accept that there will be people around the world, who fundamentally disagree with what I've done and how I've done it.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Is it? But I knew that I had to do everything I could to protect my family. Hey, Grandma. Nothing says protecting your family like putting a kids in a reality TV series, does it? Having known both women, Princess Diana and Megyn Markle, who can say with absolute certainty, they're nothing in common whatsoever. I couldn't think of two women more different. When it comes to compassion and empathy,
Starting point is 00:05:50 where's Megan's been for her own family? She completely disowned him as she did all her wedding actually before the wedding. As this series makes clear, he just suffered a stroke a few months ago. Miss Compassion hasn't even bothered to call her father to ask how he is. And the answer is, we'll find out tonight from his son Thomas, is he's not well at all. Harry's never even met the man whose daughter he married. Doesn't care. Mr. Empathy, Mr. Compassion.
Starting point is 00:06:19 Yet this man, Thomas Markle, raised Megan on his own. for many years. That wasn't in the documentary. That was glossed over. That was ignored. Just like he is now. He lives 70 miles away from them. It's about an hour-long cab ride, never seen his grandchildren. This show is packed with a kind of spearious claims and hypocrisy to become the Sussex signature. We learned they began making videos about the heroic journey. Six months before their Netflix deal was even announced. And right at the start of a pandemic, it was killing thousands of people, every day. Their only concern was their own situation. How mean everyone was being to them,
Starting point is 00:06:59 not thousands of people dying in the streets. Clearly this is all planned from a start. The show opens with the claim the royal family declined to comment. In fact, they say no one bother to ask them. Of course, their biggest complaints are, as always, about the terrible media. Rarely do we have a holiday without someone with a camera, you know, jumping out of a bush or something. Within the family, within the system, the, the advice that's always given is don't react. There was always public pressure with its fair share of drama, stress, and also tears, and witnessing those tears. There's a lot of people who think they've got such a problem with paparazzi.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Safety first, worst case scenario, we're going from one garage to another. Like, it's... Paparazzi still harassed people. It's amazing what people would do when offered a huge amount of money. amount of money, to hand over photographs, to create a story. So we had to flee the country for family privacy, says Harry, as we watch a hundred million dollar documentary in which he flaunts his young children and shares private text messages, intimate photographs for the entire world to see. When it comes to paparazzi, I had more
Starting point is 00:08:13 paparazzi outside my house when I was forced to leave my old job for disbelieving Princess Pinocchio's lies, then I saw actually outside their houses at any stage. of this documentary. Maybe their mob scenes are to come. We haven't seen any so far. In fact, all their claims of paparazzi intrusion in the two trailers turned out to be nothing to do with them.
Starting point is 00:08:35 They weren't even at many of the events which were depicted. So forgive me if I don't think this is all a load of BS. But frankly, the biggest problem with this series so far is that, like, the Sussex themselves, is actually it's dull, it's predictable,
Starting point is 00:08:50 it's cliche-ridden, it's simperingly sycophant, It's one long rendition of all their greatest whinges and a load of self-congratulatory nonsense. Harry and Megan sold their royal souls to become reality TV stars, but they've got the charisma to carry their own sub-story. They're now a grasping ex-royal version of the Kardashians, only with less class, less loyalty, and less brains.
Starting point is 00:09:15 Well, in a moment I'll speak to Megan's half-brother, Thomas Jr., exclusively. Here's a short reminder of what Megan and Harry said about her father in the show. including a series of supposedly private messages she sent to him when it emerged he was too ill to attend their wedding. Papps and journalists and media were following him all day, every day. The unraveling happened that week when he wouldn't pick up my call. And instead, you're talking to TMZ. He had a heart attack six days ago.
Starting point is 00:09:42 Which is crazy. Calling, calling, calling, calling, calling. This is not him saying, oh, I don't want to be there. No, no, I get it. And the world is watching this drama play out. Of course, it's incredibly sad what happened. She had a father before this, and now she doesn't have a father.
Starting point is 00:09:59 Well, joining me now is Megan's half-brother, Thomas Malker. Thomas, thank you for joining me. First of all, how is your father, Thomas, senior? Oh, hey, guys, it's good to be here. Dad is doing very well, making a lot of progress. He's in good spirits. Sometimes he doesn't feel that comfortable to actually make a live appearance,
Starting point is 00:10:23 but he's doing very well. You're there caring for him. He had a massive stroke, and I think at one stage for quite a while, he lost the power of his speech. Has that returned now? Is he able to communicate with you? Yeah, his speech is definitely coming back. We're making a lot of progress with the speech therapy. And, you know, for the most part, it's pretty normal.
Starting point is 00:10:45 It just goes off after a few moments, but comes back. So he's doing very well. I'm just very happy that I could be here every day for him since this happened. in May or what about six months ago. Were you both watching the first half of this series today? Let's see, I think he was. He wasn't able to join us though. I mean, he really wanted to be here.
Starting point is 00:11:14 I was watching it and, you know, I'm just glad I had my studio magic tear pen with me so I could have a tear come out of my left eye while I was watching it. I mean, that moment when Prince Harry, who's never met your father, says that Megan has no father. has no father. What did you think of that? I think it's horrible. The documentary is so far off on so many different levels. It's just it really it's really a little bit disturbing saying that she doesn't have a family and she doesn't have a father and then Harry saying that she has no father now.
Starting point is 00:11:56 That's just ridiculous. Yeah, I mean it's incredibly hurtful. I also have always had sympathy with your father because I felt that he was thrown to the walls with no experience of dealing with this kind of media, intensive media attention. He tried to do the right thing. He came unstuck and they just disowned him. Has she made any attempt to contact your father since he had his stroke? None whatsoever. And, you know, I totally agree with you on the fact that none of us were ever coached or given any help with the paparazzi or press since the very beginning, just caused a lot of problems. Nobody reached out. I actually reached out and all I got back was
Starting point is 00:12:41 distant family and she doesn't know us, which is just, you know, it's just very bizarre how she just basically brushed the entire family under the carpet like we don't exist and then lied about not having a family and lied about, you know, she doesn't have a family that she's always wanted. You know, we've always been here. It's documentary is way off. I mean, that's what's actually prompted me to work with my own production team. And coming out in like 2023, we're going to have, you know, our side of the doc... Our side of a documentary that's going to shed a lot of light. Well, I don't blame you.
Starting point is 00:13:18 I mean, if this is one of my family doing this to my family, I want to do the same thing and set the record straight. It just seems to me that she's decided you're all too big a problem. Therefore, you have to be cut loose. And I've got to be honest, I knew, Megan. for a bit before she met Harry, did exactly the same to me. Bang, you know, done. She did that to many people that she knew
Starting point is 00:13:40 that she'd either work with or was friends with or whatever. It just seems to me she's what I would call a ruthless social climate who just when people are no longer, you know, no longer appropriate parts of her circle, they have to be expunged quickly so she can move on up the ladder. Absolutely. And I think a lot of greed plays into that fact also. I mean, the amount of unprecedented files, photos,
Starting point is 00:14:05 videos and documentation that we're going to be including in our documentary, it's going to tell a whole different story. And I think the general public and the UK and America knows that now the Marcos aren't bad people. We're just like a normal family like everybody else. We do exist. And when one person tells lies and then tells 10 other lies to cover the one lie and it keeps on going, this is what happens. You end up looking ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:14:34 There's a staggering moment, Thomas, where Ashley, who is, I think, your niece, who's Samantha's daughter, befriended Megan and was going to go to the wedding. And then Megan is apparently advised by some flunky at the palace. It wouldn't be a good idea because Samantha's not invited. So this happens. How do we explain that this half-sister isn't invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister's daughter is? And so with Ashley, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding. I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from to know that it was because of my biological mother that this relationship that's so important to me was impacted in that way.
Starting point is 00:15:28 I feel like because of her was taken away has been hard. Actually, it was because of Megan that it was taken away. Megan could have had her there as she wanted to have her there. Instead, she wanted to have a bunch of celebrities she barely knew.
Starting point is 00:15:49 From the Clooney's to the Beckhams, to Elton John, to James Gordon, to Tim Buck, too. I mean, it looked like anyone she'd met on the party circuit in the previous two years got the invite, but a lot of Harry's friends weren't there, and nor was this niece who she makes a big thing in the documentary
Starting point is 00:16:04 saying we were so close. Yeah. Well, I mean, there you have it. You know, one lie turns into 20 other lies. She didn't have a family, so therefore nobody was invited. I mean, I mean, who doesn't invite their family to a wedding, especially a royal wedding? And it's not like anybody in my family asked her for one nickel or anything of her. We were all actually like happy for her when all this happened. But the slow turn of events showed the true colors of the woman. When you finish watching today, these first three episodes, what was a kind of overview about what's happened to Megan? And indeed, what you think of Harry? Well, my general overview is I can't believe that she was able to be in this position, all by my father's doing, by the way, to be in that position and to know what you're getting yourself into, and then go in there and try and change a thousand-year-old tradition and monarchy to your own liking. Who does that?
Starting point is 00:17:17 It's still a big question. I mean, my father and I re-talk about it quite a bit. It's like, I mean, how could you even consider doing that? You were everything, every woman in their life could ever dream of you had, and you had to go and make waves and accusations and be difficult. And overall, you know, taking Harry away from his family. Right. Yeah, I'm afraid I think it's completely disgraceful. Like I said.
Starting point is 00:17:44 Thomas, I've got to leave it there. Thank you very much indeed for joining me. Please send your father my best, won't you? Because I've been concerned about him. I'm glad to hear he's on the mend. Obviously, been a scary time for you and the family. Please send him my very best. Absolutely. We'll do. Thank you so much for having me.
Starting point is 00:18:00 All right, good to talk to you. Well, join me now as the Royal Understift the Standard, Robert Jobs, and Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham University, Cahendi Andrews. Welcome to both of you. Robert, I mean, pretty startling, isn't it? when you hear her own half-brother talking that way about this and how they feel as a family.
Starting point is 00:18:17 It's startling, it's upsetting, I'm sure, for them. I mean, you know, they do seem when they're on the television to be fairly normal people. Right. And, you know, Thomas Barclos, Sr. has come in for an awful lot of criticism for when he, you know, allegedly sold out the way he did. But there was no support for him at the time.
Starting point is 00:18:32 None. And I think that he did need that support. But how can you call yourself Miss Compassion? How can Harry say she's so like Diana, who really was full of compassion and not even contact your father when he brought you up on his own for years when he has a massive stroke.
Starting point is 00:18:48 Well, as you said, it wasn't even mentioned that he brought up on his own for years in the documentary. I thought the documentary didn't really address some of the big issues that were out there. Harry talks about institutional racism at the palace.
Starting point is 00:18:59 He doesn't address the facts. I remember I did a story years ago when he made racist comments about a Pakistani cadet. He called it a P-word, yeah? He did, and he tape recorded it and distributed that tape to all his friends. Now, that actually's not...
Starting point is 00:19:14 Harry himself has actually been the biggest proven racist in modern Royal history. That is a clear case of it. He was accusing everybody else of, oh, it's our unconscious. But that wasn't particularly unconscious. Perfectly conscious. You know, he recorded it, he did it,
Starting point is 00:19:27 he mocked the guy, and the guy's father was furious. Ken, Andrews, my problem with all these racism claims, which they keep spewing, is it's all generic. There are no specifics. There's no meat on the bone. There's no names, there's no incidents, there's nothing we can point to, which actually says anyone in the royal family has been racist to them or anybody else. Now, without that, why should we believe a word they're saying?
Starting point is 00:19:54 Well, this is what institutional racism is. The whole point is that you don't need to have somebody waving a Nazi flag to be racist. It's about the way she was treated in the press. It's about the way she was treated by the family. It's about the way she was restricted in her role. It's about her true color being black and that being black didn't fit into the royal family. What's he got to do with her skin? I'm going to come back to it again.
Starting point is 00:20:12 What does it got to do with her skin colour? Who at the Royal Family said anything racist about or two Mega Markle? We don't know. We've not been told. Nobody knows. Well, in fairness, they have actually tried to defend the family because someone did raise the colour of the baby. I mean, they didn't say who that was. We could guess and speculate.
Starting point is 00:20:29 That's not defending the family. That's not what racism is. That's smearing all of them. They've never said who it was. So everyone is in the frame. But no, but the point is it's not about one thing. So if you look at her media president, that first story when it came out, they were dating,
Starting point is 00:20:45 straight out of Compton. I mean, that's blatantly racing the day. Otherwise, positive feature, which actually was wrong by nine miles. There wasn't a positive. She actually came from an area of it. Listen, I know, Cahindy, I know L.A., I know where Compton is.
Starting point is 00:20:59 I know where she was brought up. It's about eight, nine miles away. The story was off by eight, nine miles. Exactly. The feature wasn't actually remotely derogatory about her. No, but, Peter, you have to look at the... For example, you're saying that she was a diva. She was, she was mean to people.
Starting point is 00:21:17 She was, no, she wasn't. She was just acting in a way that many royals act, but she became seen as this aggressive black woman. She's a diva. That's racism. I don't know what introduced to a racist woman. Hang on. Kahindi again.
Starting point is 00:21:30 I never saw anybody use her color in the British media as a stick to attack her, ever. Never saw it. It never happened. It's an absolute lie. Nor have I seen any evidence that anyone in the royal family was ever racist to either of them. So there are a number of people who've put together comparisons. How is Kate treated?
Starting point is 00:21:52 Kate does one thing and it's treated this way. Megan does one thing, he's treated a different way. This is what institutions and racism looks like. Nobody goes around saying the N-word anymore. And you're saying it's only because of Megan's skin color. Really? What I would say? Well, I mean, I think when you have an institution, which is overwhelmingly white,
Starting point is 00:22:08 which is only a story she's in it because she's black in the first place. She wasn't black. We would have been talking about all of this. Who then treats her in a way which is clearly problematic. She then leaves and says, look, I experienced racism and thought about committing suicide. It was so bad. I think we would have to say, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:22 Well, I want to see the evidence of that too, I'm afraid, because she said a senior person at Buckingham Palace told her she couldn't have help for her suicidal thoughts because it would be bad for the brand of the palace. Who was that person? And when did that conversation happen? Because like a lot of what Meghan Markle says, None of it is borne out by actual evidence.
Starting point is 00:22:41 It's just her seeing it. Playing the mental health and suicide card. There is lots of evidence. Playing the race card. There is lots of evidence. Damaging the royal family. There is lots of evidence that the royal family's press machine
Starting point is 00:22:53 is essentially like the mafia and you can't just say what you like. But like the mafia. I mean, to suggest that that's not true. The mafia was a murderous group of people who killed people for fun. Is that what you're likening the British royal firm too? Can I just point?
Starting point is 00:23:08 The Royal African Company was the company which enslaved the most people that look like me in the history of this planet. So actually, yes, the royal family actually does have a murderous past. And it's a racist past and a deeply colonial past. So actually, yes. And you think they're still murdering people, yeah? It's not morally in a superior position.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Do you mean they're still murdering people? I think the point. How many people are the royal family murdered in your lifetime, how many people have the system that your royal family represent murdered in my lifetime? Millions, actually. I mean, this is the problem, right? It's not a problem if you think they're still doing it.
Starting point is 00:23:37 It's this benign thing. It's any of the problem with you think they're still doing it? Fine, but they're not, are they? Look, let me go back to Robert. Let's go to Robert. The problem with these conversations is that, again, there's no substance to it other than go back in history and say that hundreds of years ago,
Starting point is 00:23:55 the colonial Britain, led by the world family, behaved in a bad way. We know that, and they've been apologising throughout the last 60 years for it. Yeah, but I mean, this is also about accuracy, isn't it? And this documentary, I can only speak as I find, there was one particular moment where I was on a pool position in South
Starting point is 00:24:12 Africa inside Archbishop Tutu's compound, his house, and they used that photograph of them walking away, holding the baby to say, with a lens in the picture, to suggest that that was intrusive by the paparazzi. We're taking the picture here now. That's the narrative. That photograph was taken
Starting point is 00:24:30 with three people standing there on the pool position. I was standing next to Sarah Latham, our name, there, Sarah Latham, the press secretary, who had arranged the position with them. So that was all official, all agreed. And then we went from there into the archbishop, the late Archbishop Tutu's house,
Starting point is 00:24:46 where they had tea and showed the baby again. The press couldn't show pictures of that baby under the regulations that we now have agreed since the death of Diana. What upsets me about this documentary, but I think else, is they've used all of these things. Harry says he can't remember a lot about his childhood with Diana,
Starting point is 00:25:00 apart from the fact that there were a lot of paparazzi. Yet he's utilising Diana the fame of Diana in this document. It's disgusting. And he's utilising that to get an old narrative across, and the British media has changed enormously. And by the way, the reason he's doing it is he's getting $90 million from Netflix, right? He's doing the very thing he's accused
Starting point is 00:25:20 the tabloids are doing when his mother was alive, which is using her, her image, and everything about her... And the panorama interview. For commercial game. Right, exactly. Robert DeLiverr, there. Thank you very much indeed for joining me.
Starting point is 00:25:29 Cahindy, thank you very much indeed for joining me. Coming next, Harry and Meghan wield Princess Diana's memories, as we just discussed, to defend their actions and claims. But does that kind of... comparison of any credibility at all, have guests to be Paul Burrell to debate that. So much of what Megan is and how
Starting point is 00:25:58 she is, is so similar to my mum. She has the same compassion, she has the same empathy, she has the same confidence, she has this warmth about her. Well, joining me now, a Royal Correspondent for Vanity Fair, Katie Nicol, Princess Dinah's former Butler, Paul Burrell, a historian and author, Dr. Tessa Dunlop.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Well, Paul, you and I, I had lunch with Princess Diana and a young Prince William, who's 13, at Buckingham Palace. At Kensington Palace, I'm sorry. You were the butler, served a very nice meal, I have to say. Two hours of Diana. And she was completely charming, compassionate, empathetic, and all those things. I also knew Megyn Markle, who, in my estimation from everything that happened before, during and after, when I knew her, is a complete piece of work,
Starting point is 00:26:53 devoid of any real compassion, witness her father and the family, devoid of empathy, who's taken this prince away from his family now and is trying to exploit the royal titles for maximum gain. That is not what Diana did.
Starting point is 00:27:10 She never was in it for personal gain. Not a penny. When you heard Harry say that, has he lost his mind? I'm gobsmacked. You cannot compare Princess Diana to Megan. they are two totally different creatures in totally different spaces
Starting point is 00:27:27 at totally different times and if you had lived with her for 10 years as I did I can honestly say there is no comparison to Princess Diana None Paul I mean Harry's a man in love
Starting point is 00:27:40 he's in love with Megan and his memory of Diana is one from when he was a 10 and 11 year old boy is he in love or is he as Donald Trump told me have we got the Donald Trump clip Oh do we have to play the Donald Trump clip Yeah. Have we got it?
Starting point is 00:27:54 This is what Donald Trump said. It wasn't really love he thought was a problem. Let's listen to this. Here we go. It's coming. It's the magic of live television. Harry is whipped. Do you know the expression? I'm familiar with the phrase. I won't use the full expression. But Harry is whipped like no person I think I've ever seen.
Starting point is 00:28:11 The most whipped man in the world. I don't know. That's going to be a big one. But he is a whipped man, yeah. Yeah, the full expression is he's pussy whipped. I don't want to take my advice on romance and nonsense. love from two Neanderthal men over 50. Quite frankly, I think you're all missing the point. I thought the main takeaway message, which you could learn from,
Starting point is 00:28:29 and all three of us could probably be humiliated by, was the relationship, the crony relationship between the British press and the palace. There's mutual dependency there that's corrupting. Sorry. No, it's corrupting. It has been throughout the 20th century. As a former tabloid newspaper editor for 10 years, I know more about that relationship than you do with the very important.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Historically, I probably know. Well, actually, then you do, because I was on the sharp end of it. I can test that. The idea that somehow there was some collusion, collusion between the newspapers and the journalists of Buckingham Palace. Can I just something having covered, sorry, having covered the royals for the best part of 15 years, let me just tell you,
Starting point is 00:29:10 and one of the things that annoyed me so much in what Harry said was the idea that we are just a royal rotor that are just drip-fed material from the house. If only, it was that easy. His contempt for the British media is so apparent. What about this? This is a guy whining about the media. What's he done since he left Royal Duty?
Starting point is 00:29:31 He's now on James Corden's bus top. He's doing Oprah Winfrey. He's doing a Netflix reality show. The guy never stays off of using the media. All he wanted was cash. And what we need to be honest about is the conservative, predominantly conservative press, rely on access to the royal family
Starting point is 00:29:48 for their scoops, for their biographies. Even I, as a historian, oh, if I go too far, will I get into the Royal Archive? The truth is it's compromising. And if we'd all done our job properly, maybe there would be a Royal House which has more than 10% ethnic minority employees. The truth is that Harry has always attacked tabloids,
Starting point is 00:30:06 including ones that I used to edit, for exploiting the Royal Family for commercial gain. Now he is exploiting his hatred of the Royal Family for commercial gain. Even using his own mother, the late Princess Diana, to do that, for money, for hard dollars.
Starting point is 00:30:23 I concede that Harry is far from perfect. I concede he's not perfect. His mother would be very unhappy. She'd be furious. About what is happening now because it upsets William, it upsets Kate. And those boys had a pact
Starting point is 00:30:36 that these interviews would not be shown again on national television, particularly the Bashir. Well, let me bring in, we've got a stellar panel of ordinary members of the public here, all of whom have strong opinions.
Starting point is 00:30:48 We won't get to all of you, and you know that. But I want to go to Fran Foley-Winster who's in Dublin. Fran, what was your take on what we saw today? It was just so cringe-worthy. I don't know how they've managed to get six-depp. It was halfway through, and they weren't even engaged yet.
Starting point is 00:31:09 You know, I don't think they dated that long in real life. Ridiculous. So you weren't impressed? No. And I'm actually... I've been a group... Messenger group is coming on. Frank, we're having a problem with your link there.
Starting point is 00:31:28 I'm going to try and come back to you a bit later. Let's go now to... We're going to get to Nicola Myers. What is your view? You have a different view, I think, Nicola. Okay, so my view of the Netflix series, as it happens this morning, I've actually watched episode 1, 2 and 3 back to back.
Starting point is 00:31:49 And I loved it. Okay? I absolutely loved it. Before I watched it, I wasn't sure of my opinion of everything that had gone on with Megan and Harry and if they were set out, jeopardise their British monarchy.
Starting point is 00:32:05 After watching it, I'm on their side. I'm for Megan and Harry. Why? I absolutely am. Why? The madly in love. The madly in love... I'm very happy for them.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Why trashed their families? Why trash their families? Why trash their families? I don't think they've purposely set out to trash their families. They literally purposely set out to trash their family. Harry's got scared with all the racial... Harry has got scared
Starting point is 00:32:33 of all the racial abuse that the love of his life was getting, he saw it happening what had happened to his mother, where his mother got murdered. And he's panicked of gone to the move away from it. She died in a car crash. He doesn't want to see that happening. Okay, let me go to Magali Gore. He's in... Oh, we haven't got Magali. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:32:54 We'll come back to another one of our panel in a moment. I mean, it's interesting, isn't it? Lots of different reactions. I've heard some people say they like them and they support them. you see that on social media a lot. I've got to say walking around today, I didn't meet anyone in Kensington on the streets. It was anything but furious. Yes.
Starting point is 00:33:10 I've not had anyone on my Twitter feed coming in saying that at all, and people saying we're going to cancel our Netflix subscription. There seems to be a real reaction against it. It's a clear exploitation of Princess Diana's image. It's very anti-British. I'm going to own that. That really struck me
Starting point is 00:33:26 this morning in my little British home. I thought, gosh, I felt almost like I was under siege and I'm fairly neutral in terms of, you you know, where my affections lie, whether it's for the royals or for help. I was watching with my wife, Celia. It was her birthday today. Happy birthday to my wife. And we couldn't think of a better way to enjoy her birthday than to spend three hours
Starting point is 00:33:43 watching those whining little brats in Montecito. But we sat and watched it, and about halfway through, we turned it over and this is really boring, is it? And the reason it was boring was because they were repeating so much of the rehash stuff, which we heard on Oprah. It's the same way, it's like Elvis playing all his old hits, and he's not quite as good this time. appealing to you the voyeuristic,
Starting point is 00:34:02 oh, let's have a look in their Montecito home. Ooh, they met on Instagram, all those aspects. To be fair, peers. I mean, it's going to the generation below, even me, let alone you. Well, let's go, all right. We can go to Magali Gore now, who's Gore, I'm sorry, Megali Goree, who's in Cheshiree.
Starting point is 00:34:17 Magali, I think you can hear me now. What's your view? Yes, hi, hi, hi. Well, to be fair, I have double feelings about it, but one feeling that I can say is that, as you can see, I'm a woman, I'm brown, and when I saw royalty getting in love and she was a brown princess because she became a princess, the door went open for so many dreams of little girls like me.
Starting point is 00:34:43 When I was young and I was raised in a very white community, racist, racist. Now, sometimes people are not used to how you look like. They're not used to what your roots are or what your background is or that you handle things maybe differently. I loved the wedding, for example. The wedding was with American. Well, I agree with you. I wrote all this, Magali.
Starting point is 00:35:09 I wrote a big piece for the mayor on Sunday saying exactly what you've just been saying. I think that was the general mood of this country. That's why I'm so angry that they're now trying to make out, they were driven out by racist Britain, racist royals, racist media. None of that was true. Now, what did you think now, having watched it today? What's your view of them now?
Starting point is 00:35:28 It is a repeat from a lot of things And I have to be honest to you Still, we cannot really feel what she felt I only know that When you're coming in an institution That's where she comes in And a family that is a very strong A very serious family
Starting point is 00:35:46 A very, you know Look at the queen, she's born to do this You know, so this is what you do This is what you're going to live And then there comes a girl from America That thinks with an American background To the red carpet Oh, I'm going to make it now
Starting point is 00:35:59 look at me, no, no, no, no, no, no, you have to live like the protocols. And I think that's a struggle. Okay, McGarney, I've got to leave it there. I'll get your point. I've got to leave it there. I'm going to take a break. But thank you for that. I'm going to come back after break. And we'll talk more about this, particularly also Megyn Markle mocking the moment she met the queen and had to courtesy. And Harry's response, does it get any more disrespectful than that? We'll talk about it after break.
Starting point is 00:36:26 There's no class in some person who goes sit like this, cross your legs like this, use this fork, don't do this. Curtsey then, wear this kind of hat. It doesn't happen. And I remember in the car and driving up and he said, you know how to curtsy, right? And I just thought it was a joke. I mean, Americans will understand this. We have medieval times, dinner and tournament. It was like that.
Starting point is 00:36:59 Like I curtsied as though I was like, pleasure to meet you, your majesty. Yeah, nice, right? Mocking our queen. mocking the fact she had to show her respect by just learning how to curtsy property it's not hard to learn, is it? If you're marrying into the family. Well, joining me now is the editor of Hollywood Unlocked,
Starting point is 00:37:26 Jason Lee, Nice and Martin Luther King Jr. Arvita King and Conservative radio host, Ben Ferguson. I still have Paul and Katie with me. So let me start with you, if I may, Ben Ferguson. What does America make of this? I mean, surely they're not falling for this. Are they? Yeah, can you please come get your Kardashians?
Starting point is 00:37:45 That's number one. Number two, it seems like these two individuals that are obsessed with being private people and being out of the public eye are actually a bunch of narcissists that are totally obsessed of being in the public eye. It was a crybaby special. I mean, full disclosure, I could only watch so much of it peers before I said, give me a break, roll my eyes and moved on with my life. So I would say if you want to waste three hours of your life and you love drama and your soap opera isn't coming in, watch this. because it's amazing. Yeah. But this rewriting of history through their eyes,
Starting point is 00:38:23 like there's somehow victims, they're not victims. She's crazy, and she's trying to destroy a family here. And I used to kind of feel sorry for Harry. I don't anymore. Because he's sitting there doing it with her. Like, you can even see at the curtsy moment
Starting point is 00:38:41 that you just came in with here. He looks at her almost like she's crazy. And maybe in three or four, five years, she'll realize this woman has destroyed my life. Yeah, I think that's the moment we'll look back on, I suspect, in a couple of years, and that'll be a tipping point. Let's go to Alveda King. I want to think Dr. King is one of my all-time heroes, as he is many people. He truly was somebody who stood up to racial injustice, racial inequality, like nobody in modern times, and it cost him his life. The idea that these two
Starting point is 00:39:12 are in any way, on any level, people doing similar stuff, is to me fanciful. They're just sitting there in a mansion in California, spray gunning their families, calling them a bunch of callous, vile races without any evidence, aren't they? Well, here's...
Starting point is 00:39:35 Off you go. Hi, Elveda. Off you go. Can you hear me? I can hear, yeah. Can you hear me? Okay. All right, well, here I am.
Starting point is 00:39:42 I grew up with the princess and the peace Cinderella, lately, Wakanda forever, and exploring all these various cultures. And so there is no happily ever after in Cinderella land if you're from two different cultures. And so what we have is a cultural confusion on Megan's part, and she wants to superimpose her culture on her husband and their family, and that just doesn't work. But I'm remindful of my uncle, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we must learn to live together as brothers. and I'll say as sisters or perish together as fools. Now there's only one blood and one human race,
Starting point is 00:40:21 and so to put racism into everything doesn't necessarily ring true either. And really, Britain had a queen, I think it was Prince, Queen Sophie, who was part German and part black African person. So it's not like the monarchy is opposed to skin color, but there's only one blood and one race. But I think Megan is mixing maybe Hollywood fantasy and her pain of what she wants to see. But you can't topple a whole line of traditions
Starting point is 00:40:56 based on pain. But past pain, there is communication. It takes some guts to even speak out and say some of these things. But we want to bring this back into a reality. And I think that's the problem. Alveda, that's one of the most brilliant analysis I've heard actually of the whole ferraga. Thank you. Absolutely
Starting point is 00:41:16 brilliant. I want to bring in Jason Lee now, you fall for all this. You think they're great heroes and deserve all the awards they're getting and their freedom fighters standing up to the impressive Brits, do you? Well, I'm not obsessed with them to the point that I'm following every move that they're making,
Starting point is 00:41:33 but I have watched the documentary, and so far I love it. And I'm somebody who's black and white, and I've listened to some of the people on the show today. The guy who started at the top this segment has just annoyed me. You can tell he probably doesn't have much love in his life. And the woman before the last segment,
Starting point is 00:41:49 she was probably a bit oversized and unattractive. Doesn't really sound like she had. Hold on, we already heard what you had to say. Clearly, you're mad that there's black blood in the bloodline for the royal family. But since you want to talk about, if you want to talk about racism in the UK, let's talk about the racism in UK then because the blood diamonds at Buckingham Palace have not been returned. You're very consumed with a man who's in love with a black woman.
Starting point is 00:42:12 That's the problem that you have. But this is the deal. Jason, Jason, wait a minute, wait a minute. Time out, time out. Time out. I didn't interrupt you. They're all human beings. Skin color.
Starting point is 00:42:26 Here's the deal. Everybody got to talk before me. All right. Everybody got to talk before me. You can't all talk at once. Jason, here's the problem, Jason. It's when you get to the specifics of who in the royal family has actually been racist. There is no answer.
Starting point is 00:42:40 There's no evidence. There are no facts. It's all just smear by association. They're racist. They're blind to it all. They're unconsciously biased. Blah, blah, blah. Where is the meat on the bone?
Starting point is 00:42:53 Where are the facts? Well, we haven't seen it all yet, and I think that we have to let them tell their story, right? We're both in the media. One thing I love about you, peers, you say what you feel, what you think, regardless of how people feel. And I think they should be given the same freedom. We enjoy talking about them, let them tell their story so we can talk about their story. I look at their love story from their point of view
Starting point is 00:43:14 and I look at how it's been reported and I can enjoy it all without getting in my feelings I think that how she described meeting the queen I don't know how I would have felt if I would have met the queen I didn't have that privilege but I probably would have been nervous too and I don't know what preparation went on I mean what we're looking at is very public people who are under scrutiny who had private lives and now we're seeing what that look like
Starting point is 00:43:36 I don't see what the big deal is she met the queen privately and she was with the queen's grandson who probably does know how you greet the Queen. Exactly. That was a great panel. I want to thank Jason. Wait, but in all fairness. And just for the record,
Starting point is 00:43:52 Ben Ferguson, I think you would like to just clarify. You do have, I get it. Alveda, one second. Ben, just to clarify, you do have love in your life, yeah? Yes, yes. I have a life that loves me, three children that love me. And I said nothing about rapes on my comment. I've got to leave you there.
Starting point is 00:44:07 Thank you to my panel. Thank you very much, Dave. We back off the break at our verdicts here from Katie and Paul. Welcome back. I've got a night from my sister in the break there. She, her husband, my brother-in-law, used to be the person in charge of training
Starting point is 00:44:30 William and Harriet Sandhurst Military Academies. All the royals used to go down there, including for their passing outbraises. I thought you all to know that. I've seen the Royal Family in Action in private. After the passing outprades, they're the most loving, affectionate, relaxed people, just like any other normal family.
Starting point is 00:44:44 We watched them all hug each other, tease each other. It was lovely to be a part of. I witnessed it at both Harry and Williams' passing upbraids. Megan is talking absolutely bleak. Thank you, Charlotte, my sister. We're all pretty much the same with my family, uncensored. Let me go to Sam Sarah quickly in Canterbury.
Starting point is 00:44:59 Very quickly, Sam Sarah, your view. My view is it's fascinating, just like you said. It's a big statement that says nothing's wrong with me, nothing's wrong with us. We're normal people. We've had an experience. And the thing that Harry talks about is unconscious bias. So I know you've mentioned racism
Starting point is 00:45:18 and perhaps it's not being called out just yet explicitly in the documentary, but it's the blind spots, is the areas where people might well be well-meaning, but in fact, underlying that are some prejudices and judgments that may not really be appropriate. Okay, that's a good point. Katie, your overview, really, from all the discussions we've had.
Starting point is 00:45:37 I mean, we haven't mentioned yet the little digs that were going on about Kate and William, you know, fitting the mould wires. Well, he said, you know, that the men in the family have married women who fit the mould. Well, I think you can look at William and Kate in their 10-year love story before they've been married and say this is one of the most enduring love stories of raw history.
Starting point is 00:45:56 And respectful of the institution, which gives them the luxurious life they have. But apparently, you know, they were cool towards, you know, the couple. And there was that... Because when Meghan Markle was for the first time, she's barefoot must have hung them all. It's like she's a 36-year-old divorcee. I'll probably give her a bit of a wide birth myself. Yeah. Paul, remember respect. Don't trash the royal family.
Starting point is 00:46:14 We love them here in England. They're our institution. Remember what your mother would say to you. Your mother would say to you, Harry, I'm proud of you for being a member of our raw family. I'm proud of your brother. I always thought that you'd be his wingman. And she was very proud to be a princess. I've got letters at home that's...
Starting point is 00:46:33 I want to. I would absolutely hate the rift with William and Harry. Absolutely. And the fact that they would go on national television now for the second time and trash William and Kate and Charles and all of it, just it would be... And I think the way Harry has monopolized Diana and her legacy. Can you imagine how that must feel for the Prince of Wales? she was both of their mother and he's taking...
Starting point is 00:46:54 And by the way, they've just lost the queen, right? They're all still grieving the loss of our greatest motto. Thank you both very much. Come back next week for part two. That's it from me, whatever you're up to. Keep it uncensored. Good night.

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