Meghan Markle will be posing for pics 'on her own' at the Taj Mahal in five years, says Jeremy Clarkson
Meghan Markle's and Prince Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired on CBS on Sunday, March 7, continues to ruffle feathers, and this time, it is former 'Top Gear' host, Jeremy Clarkson, who has entered the conversation to give his views on the Duchess of Sussex as he rose to defend his friend, Piers Morgan.
Morgan, while he was still a host on ITV's 'Good Morning Britain', created a huge controversy when he said in the wake of the Sussexes' interview with Oprah that he did not believe her statements regarding her mental health. Meghan had said during her interview, "I just didn't want to be alive anymore. And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. And I remember how [Harry] just cradled me."
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Morgan quit as co-host of the breakfast show after Alex Beresford made critical remarks against him on-air, following which Morgan stormed off mid-argument. It was later reported that Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, also lodged a formal complaint against Morgan with ITV.
Morgan continued to stand by his statements on Meghan Markle. However, other TV hosts, who have since spoken up to defend him, are now being embroiled in their own controversies. Sharon Osbourne, rose to defend Morgan on CBS's 'The View', which has resulted in the show going on an indefinite hiatus, as her future on the program remains unknown.
The latest to join in Morgan's defense is Jeremy Clarkson, who wrote in his column for The Sun, that Meghan is "much revered by the young and the stupid who believe that her brand of simpering victimhood will one day bring down the monarchy, but it won't."
Clarkson went onto write that monarchy has survived kings being beheaded, queens executing their sisters, affairs, abdications, "bud-eyed princes who claimed they could not sweat," and more. He also wrote that the monarchy even "managed to survive George III, who was so mad, he once spoke nonsense for 58 hours straight. This is a man who let America have its independence, and who once shook hands with a tree believing it to be the King of Prussia."
He continued about Meghan saying that "this is a woman, who, so far, has reportedly fallen out with her father, her sister, her ex, her brother-in-law, her sister-in-law, her mother-in-law and, probably everyone in the entire world with an IQ of more than 32."
He continued, "I would not be surprised if, one day, an inappropriate text will be uncovered, or she’ll say something misjudged, and she will become just another Gerald Ratner. And even if she is able to maintain the act, her fans will grow up and become accountants and land-scape gardeners and plasterers and then they’ll realize that we need a monarch."
He then went on to say "Markle's toast," and that too, within "five years." He added, "I suspect she’ll be posing for photographs, on her own outside the Taj Mahal or sitting on the back of a playboy’s yacht in the Med, and poor old Piers will realise that he lost his job over absolutely nothing at all."
Clarkson also made a side remark regarding the current controversy in the UK over the death of Sarah Everand, who is suspected to have been kidnapped and murdered by a police officer, writing, "In the meantime, I would ask the feminists who are currently waging war with men to pack it in. Because saying that all men are to blame for violence against women is like saying all Muslims are to blame for terrorism."