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James Brinsford

Piers Morgan slams 'shameless' Meghan Markle's interview as 'royal bashing tosh'

Piers Morgan has said that Meghan Markle 's latest bombshell interview about her time with the royal family left him "gagging".

The 57-year-old TalkTV host has been a long-time critic of the Duchess of Sussex and he wasted no time in branding her "shameless".

The former Good Morning Britain presenter said that Meghan was "shameful" for her fresh attack on the royals in an interview with US magazine The Cut.

Meghan claimed that such was her problems with the royal family that "just be existing" she was "upsetting" them and that they wanted to tell her what to say and how to act.

Former actress Meghan also claimed that a cast member of West End and Broadway hit musical, Lion King, told her "we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed" after she married Prince Harry.

Piers didn't hold back with his views on her comments, and hit out at the former royal, saying: "Even by Markle standards, this is a revoltingly self-aggrandising, disingenuous & hypocritical load of royal-bashing tosh."

He then said that he felt sick hearing some of her other quotes.

Piers continued: "The Mandela anecdote alone had me gagging.

"How dare she use her title to keep trashing the institution that gave it to her? Shameless & shameful."

Meghan Markle has claimed that her and Prince Harry were treated differently from other royals (WireImage)

Meghan blasted the royals for not giving the "arrangement" she and Harry wanted after they were married and said that we're not trying to "reinvent the wheel" with their demands.

She also claimed that other royals were allowed to carry out duties how they wanted and insinuated that she and Harry were treated differently.

In the interview, Meghan said: "That, for whatever reason, is not something that we were allowed to do, even though several other members of the family do that exact thing.”

When she was asked why this might have been, she said: "Why do you think that is?"

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (WireImage)

She said that they were willing to go to any Commonwealth country to be away from the family, claiming: "Anything to just … because just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy.

"So we go, ‘Okay, fine, let’s get out of here. Happy to.'"

Meghan claimed that Harry said he "lost his dad" when the turned their backs on royal duties and left for a life in California and said it was up to Harry whether he builds bridges back or goes the way she did with her father, Thomas Markle, who she has nothing to do with.

Meghan said: “Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process.’

"It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision.”

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