The Royals' Campaign Against Meghan Markle Exposed
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As the new Netflix documentary on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drops, the media are in overdrive against the couple. But what's the truth? The brilliant Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu talks us through what the show tells us - and how the response of the media damns the industry. Plus: is Prince Harry now a republican?
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| 0:00.0 | Please like and subscribe. Hello, Shola. Shola, I was just saying before we start recording, |
| 0:05.0 | when the Megan Harry documentary was going to drop, I was like, we have to have Shola. |
| 0:09.6 | No one else will do. You are the best commentator in these issues that the |
| 0:14.6 | consumers have. They're actually a great number of people who are talking so much sense out there. |
| 0:20.8 | God bless them. No, but I think I'm not to besmirch them, but you're better than them. |
| 0:26.6 | So, Shola, let's start. Nicholas Richell said what, I mean, I'm not sure what the |
| 0:32.9 | pretence of BBC impartiality, where that's gone. Nicholas Richell said, and in fact, I think we'll |
| 0:40.3 | roll the clip, we'll interspersion after I've spoken to you. Nicholas Rich said, the allegations |
| 0:45.3 | were absurd. What amounts really to a conspiracy between the palace and the press, and that I think |
| 0:50.6 | is where credibility is really stretched beyond what is reasonable. Consider one of the things that |
| 0:56.2 | Megan said. No matter what I did, they were still going to find a way to destroy me. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, the first point, who is the they that she's referring to? I think it is the palace, |
| 1:07.9 | but most particularly it is to the press. But the idea that anyone was out to destroy her, |
| 1:15.4 | frankly, I think, is absurd, and simply does not stand up to proper and reasonable scrutiny. |
| 1:21.8 | But they, quite obviously, are convinced that they were victims. |
| 1:26.8 | Well, the only absurd thing here is Nicholas Richell. I mean, every time he opens his mouth, |
| 1:33.8 | epitomizes every single thing that Harry and Megan say about the press, and quite frankly, |
| 1:39.2 | about the relationship that royal correspondents have with the royal family and how they |
| 1:45.2 | an extension, like a PR extension of them. Look, I think that anybody watching that documentary, |
| 1:51.3 | anybody with an open mind watching the documentary, we'll see a couple who have, |
| 1:58.0 | well, literally just sharing opening up there, I suppose opening up their world and saying, |
| 2:04.7 | come on in. Look, this is how we met. This is what's going on. These are the decisions we have to make |
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