BBC journalists have hit out at Meghan and Harry’s Netflix show with Radio 4’s Mishal Husain and BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell wading in on the debate around the Sussexes’ allegations.
Radio host Ms Husain said ‘recollections may vary’ in response to Meghan and Harry’s claim their 2017 interview with her following their engagement was ‘staged’.
It came as Mr Witchell also branded Meghan Markle’s claim that anyone was ‘out to destroy’ her as ‘absurd’.
BBC journalist Ms Husain was presenting BBC Radio 4’s Today programme when she was confronted with Meghan’s allegation about their engagement interview being ‘rehearsed’.
‘We know recollections may vary on this particular subject, but my recollection is definitely very much: asked to do an interview and do said interview,’ Ms Husain said.
The broadcaster’s royal correspondent Mr Witchell described the docu-series as ‘relatively benign so far’ as he appeared on the News at Six last night.
‘Now if you were watching these three hours without all the surrounding noise you might think this was a rather touching love story of a couple seeking happiness but of course there is no escape from that surrounding noise,’ he said.
‘And I think Buckingham Palace on the central and most central and most sensitive issue of race will be relieved there is no new explicit allegation against the royal family – though Harry does say there is a huge level of unconscious bias.
‘His main complaint – and it is a familiar one – is of press intrusion. And this suggestion that there is, what amounts really to a conspiracy between the Palace and the press.
And that I think is where credibility is really stretched beyond what is reasonable.
‘Consider one of the things that Meghan said – ‘no matter what I did they were still going to find a way to destroy me.’
‘The first point who is they she is referring? I think it is the Palace but most particularly the press.
‘But the idea that anyone was out to destroy her frankly I think is absurd and simply does not stand up to proper and reasonable scrutiny.
‘But he said, Meghan and Harry ‘obviously are convinced that they were victims.’
He later appeared on the News at 10 where he described Meghan and Harry as ‘a couple who continue to divide opinion very sharply.’
‘It’s a couple who either could not or would not fit into the accepted template of the British royal family.
