Harry and Meghan: Piers Morgan brands couple ‘less classy’ than Kardashians

Outspoken broadcaster Piers Morgan has reacted to the Sussexes’ highly anticipated Netflix series.

Firebrand television personality Piers Morgan has taken another vicious swipe at the Duchess of Sussex branding her Netflix documentary “dull” and “less classy” than The Kardashians reality show.

Meghan Markle’s fiercest critic used his UK show Uncensored to launch a volley of attacks against the former Suits star calling her “obnoxious, self-serving and hypocritical” and persistently referring to Diana’s legacy to evoke public sympathy.

“She and Diana have nothing in common at all, as for compassion, she hasn’t even spoken to her father. Harry, Mr Empathy, Mr Compassion, hasn’t met his father-in-law,” he said.

“This show is packed with spurious hypocrisy that has become the Sussexes’ signature.”

In an unrelenting tirade, he went on about the Harry & Meghan six-part series, the first half of which was aired on Thursday saying, “The pair of them are horribly rich, entitled and narcissistic.”

“According to this documentary, we’ve apparently been wrong all along,” he said.

The Sussexes in a scene from Harry and Meghan. Picture: Netflix

“Britain is a nasty racist hellhole and 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 in a devastating crisis.

“Now the world’s biggest victims right now are the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.”

Morgan branded Markle a “ruthless social climber” for ignoring her father who is recovering from a stroke citing the Prince’s comment in the series that “Meghan has no father.”

The Duchess disowned her father Thomas Senior Markle, her half-brother Thomas Junior and half-sister Samantha after she began dating Prince Harry.

“It’s horrible to say she has no father, the documentary is so far off on so many different levels,” Thomas Junior told Morgan.

“It’s really a little bit disturbing saying that she doesn’t have a family and she doesn’t have a father.

“I actually reached out and all I got back was a distant family and that she didn’t know us … 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 is way off.

The loved up couple in a photo shared on the Netflix series. Picture: Netflix

“It’s actually prompted me to work with my own production team and coming out in late 2023, we’re going to have our side of the documentary that’s going to shed a lot of light.

“The Markles 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, you end up looking ridiculous,” he said.

Samantha Markle’s daughter Ashleigh Hale, who is Markle’s niece, said she was “hurt on some level” to have been uninvited to the royal wedding.

“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. I feel that because of her it was taken away. It’s been hard,” Hale said in the docuseries.

The presenter’s vitriol for the Duchess stems from a meeting in July 2016, when Morgan, at the time a presenter on ITV’s Good Morning Britain, sat over a pint in a West London pub with the actress who has contacted him on Twitter, seeking friendship and the chance to network during a visit to London.

She ordered a dirty Martini cocktail and for 90 minutes, Markle opened up about her university degree, a stint as a briefcase girl on Deal Or No Deal, and her hopes and dreams.

“She’s strikingly beautiful, intelligent (she has two degrees, in theatre and international relations) and has a fun, feisty personality that flits easily between serious and frivolous subject matters,” he duly noted in his newspaper column.

The following night, Markle and Prince Harry had their first date at London’s Soho House.

Morgan never heard from her again.

“I just thought, the pair of them, such poor manners,” he later said.

Piers Morgan is not impressed by the claims made in the docuseries. Picture: Justin Lloyd

In March last year ITV announced Morgan had quit Good Morning Britain following more than 41,000 complaints to The Office of Communications, about his comments after the royal couple’s Oprah interview.

The morning after the interview aired in the US, Morgan proclaimed that he did not believe Markle’s claims of suicidal ideation while pregnant with Archie, triggering an almighty backlash.

It emerged on Thursday that Markle emailed the CEO of ITV, Dame Carolyn McCall, formerly of the left-wing Guardian newspaper, to complain about what Morgan had said.

According to a statement issued to national news agency, the Press Association, Markle said she was “not upset personally” but concerned how his comments could affect people dealing with their own mental health problems.

This intervention — one complaint among 41,000 made — will have weighed heavily with McCall.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during an interview in the Netflix docuseries. Picture: Netflix

Morgan was promptly booted off Good Morning Britain ending five years of helping to turn its fortunes around from a limping morning show into a program which has overtaken BBC Breakfast in the ratings. Viewing figures doubled during his last two years attributed largely to his outspoken views.

He has since taken regular potshots at her.

He berated her following the announcement of her new children’s book inspired by Prince Harry and Archie. Published last June, The Bench is about father-son relationships as seen through the eyes of mothers.

Morgan attacked Markle as unqualified to talk about father-child relationships citing her own very bad relationship with her father.

He criticised her over the private christening of Archie, over her broken relationship with her father, and over Prince Harry’s complaints over ‘racist’ press coverage.

Morgan has been relentless in his attacks over Megxit, and Markle’s interview with Oprah branding it “vile, destructive self-serving nonsense” — the comments that have cost him his job.

Watch Piers Morgan Uncensored on Sky 522, Sky Glass 508, Virgin Media 606, Freeview 237 and Freesat 217 as well as on DAB, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung TV Plus, YouTube.

Originally published as Harry and Meghan: Piers Morgan brands couple ‘less classy’ than Kardashians