When Trevor Noah name-dropped Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on TV in January 2020, it was undoubtedly brutal. Still, unlike other takedowns, it wasn’t Meghan who came off the worst. “The British royal family, they’re like the Kardashians with an occasional beheading,” Noah kicked off. He detailed Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan’s retirement from public duty, playing a clip of Queen Elizabeth II arriving at Sandringham for “Megxit” crisis talks with Harry, his brother, Prince William, their dad, King Charles III, and Meghan via the phone from Canada.
Noah questioned what triggered Harry and Meghan’s decision to leave the U.K. before breaking down the answer in a scathing narrative, attacking the British press, including the Daily Mail’s reprehensible November 2016 headline, “Harry’s girl is (almost) straight outta Compton,” a BBC correspondent’s post on X, formerly Twitter, portraying the couple’s baby as a chimp and Princess Michael of Kent’s blatantly racist choice of jewelry.
Thought the U.K. had had enough of big political separations? Meet Megxit. pic.twitter.com/lQGo6ZSRdW
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 14, 2020
The couple discussed the role that racism played in their exit during their March 2021 sit-down with Oprah. Harry claimed an unnamed royal questioned what color his and Meghan’s baby would be. “He did not share the identity with me,” Oprah told “CBS This Morning” the day after the interview aired. However, she said Harry insisted it “was not his grandmother, nor his grandfather that were a part of those conversations.” In his book, “Brothers and Wives,” Christopher Anderson claimed the alleged commenter was Charles.
