Caller 'furious' over treatment of Price Harry by British press
Jeremy Vine's Channel 5 show became heated today (July 25) as his panellists aired differeing opinions about Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle. Vocal coach Carrie Grant and broadcaster Mike Parry were guests on the show when a woman named Angela called in to give her opinion on the Duke of Sussex.
She claimed the country builds people up to knock them down and said: "That's precisely what they've done with Harry". Claiming to get very upset by it, she opined they "ganged up on Harry, like they did with Diana," and said he was right to blame the press.
Her remarks ignited the panel with Parry disagreeing with her viewpoint. "I don't think they gang up on him. You've got to remember the royal family, or a public institution in this country has been around for a millennium, and that there has to be access from the public to the royal family, and traditionally, that's always been done through the newspapers," he explained.
"It's an arrangement which both sides have worked heavily with since the Second World War. Then all of a sudden Harry comes in. He's a breath of fresh air with Meghan. But then I think their demands, you know, within the royal family, to be treated as superstars of the family, backfired on them," he speculated.
Angela was not amused by Mike's remarks and claimed the royal family were "trying to destroy" Harry and Meghan, adding the "press is helping them."
Mike was having none of it, telling the caller: "They're not trying to destroy them. What do you mean?
"Who is trying to destroy the royal family, an institution which is widely loved in this country. Nobody's trying to destroy Harry and Meghan."
However, his fellow panellist Carrie agreed with Angela and said: "I think they are trying to destroy Harry and Meghan absolutely." This caused Mike to become irate as she explained her reasoning.
"If you look at everything that Princess Kate does she can do no wrong. Meghan can do no right, even if she does exactly the same things," she said.
"There is whatever you want to call that, whatever the narrative is behind that, whatever value system people have that put on her, their own racism or whatever, there is bad press about Megan and great, unendingly great press about Kate, she observed.
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Despite her impassioned support of the couple many viewers felt Harry had brought negative coverage and attitudes on himself.
@jazzpool21 opined: "Fell victim to own lies & being a hypocrite! Left UK to be away from press & danger! REALLY? Bad mouths family publicly & moans about invasion of privacy! Claims to be eco warrior but uses more fossil fuel travel than 99% of the population! Won't relinquish titles or citizenship!"
