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Fury as This Morning guest mocks Meghan Markle’s experience of racism with tone-deaf joke: ‘Get off our TV!’
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This Morning viewers were left fuming today after guest commentator Julia Hartley-Brewer took a swipe at Meghan Markle’s racism claims she experienced racism from a member of the Royal Family.
Julia appeared on today’s episode alongside Nicola Thorp to discuss recent news, starting with an adorable photo from 2018 of Queen Elizabeth and the late Prince Philip with seven of their great-grandchildren.
Taken at Balmoral Castle, the photo shows the Queen cradling baby Prince Louis, son of William and Kate, alongside his brother George and sister Charlotte.
Peter Phillips’ daughters, Savannah and Isla, are next to the Duke of Cambridge, as well as Zara and Mike Tindall’s children Lena and Mia.
Meghan and Prince Harry’s son Archie was born in May 2019 – and during the notorious bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan claimed a senior member of the family ‘expressed concern about his skin colour’ before he was born.
In light of the new photo, Julia took a swipe a Meghan and said: ‘I wonder if Meghan [Markle] has managed to take offence to this photograph that doesn’t include her son.
‘Well she probably thinks it’s a racist photograph, taken before her son was even conceived,’ she added. ‘I’m sure she’s managed to take offence at it anyway.’
Nicola then stepped in and told her ‘she can’t say something like that’ with Julia laughing before responding: ‘I can.’
‘To suggest that Meghan would think that something was racist, something that didn’t even exist at the time, you yourself are kind of pushing this agenda,’ Nicola said.
‘I’m tired of it – and I’m sure many viewers are tired of it, because what it does is it devalues somebody’s experience when they actually do speak about racism. If you’re just going to make up a scenario that hasn’t even existed.’
‘I’m making a joke pointing out that some people are able to find offence in anything, as it seems she would’ve done after pointing the finger at senior Royals without naming names,’ Julia hit back.
Viewers were shocked at the comments and slammed Julia for making light of the claims of racism made by Meghan.
After the argument, Dermot O’Leary shut down the conversation, and said: ‘We chose that item first because we thought it would be something nice to talk about first, wow.’
The photo was released in celebration of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 at the age of 99.
His funeral will be held this Saturday at 3pm, starting with a short procession where senior members of the Royal family, including Charles Prince of Wales, will follow the coffin on foot from Windsor Castle to St George’s Chapel.
This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV.
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