Australian TV host says Meghan and Harry have just learnt a huge lesson after South Park episode – as the couple break their silence about the episode
- New South Park episode mocks Harry and Meghan
- Andrew Bolt says cartoon cult ‘knocked out’ royals
- Questioned if they can come back from global humiliation
An Australian television host has unleashed a blistering attack on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle days after they were mercilessly mocked and ridiculed in a South Park episode.
The ‘The Worldwide Privacy Tour’ episode mocks the couple’s demands for privacy while on a publicity blitz for the prince’s autobiography ‘Waaaah’ – a dig at Harry’s recent memoir Spare.
Outspoken conservative columnist Andrew Bolt weighed in on the saga during his Sky News program on Monday night.
Bolt believes the pair have learned tough lessons after South Park made a public laughing stock of them in the wake of the Harry’s memoir, which he described as a ‘giant whinge.’
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry (pictured in New York in December) have become the subject of global humiliation after they were ridiculed on a recent South Park episode
‘Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle have just learned the hardest of lessons, which is, if you start a brawl, don’t be surprised if you end up getting punched twice as hard,’ Bolt began.
‘In fact, South Park has just knocked them out.
‘I don’t know what he and his wife expected from this. Was it pity or sympathy of their hard time or just the millions earned by betraying Harry’s family.
‘But they could not have imagined being made a laughing stock by the cult cartoon South Park.’
Bolt questioned whether the royals can come back from the latest controversy which has led to global humiliation.
‘I don’t think they’ve got an ego big enough to better it,’ he added.
Bolt interviewed British writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue, who described the South Park episode particularly ‘scathing’ but also funny.
Sky News presenter Andrew Bolt (pictured) weighed into the latest saga surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
‘The reality is, most people have the sense the couple really don’t want their privacy, or at least they’ve done everything in their power to not get it’,’ she said.
‘Also, it’s hard to sympathise with the complaints and rues of the couple.’
‘They’re very wealthy. He (Harry) has been handed everything on a platter. In reality, what grievances do you have that most people relate with?’
Bolt is sceptical of report the royals are pursuing legal action over the episode and believes it would make things worse for the royals if they do sue.
‘I’m sure they have better things to spend the royalties on from the book,’ Krakue agreed.
‘You can’t sue a cartoon, It’s satire. It is what it is.’
The South Park episode, titled ‘The Worldwide Privacy Tour’, mocks the royal couple’s demands for privacy while on a publicity blitz for the prince’s autobiography ‘Waaaah’ – a dig at Harry’s recent memoir Spare
Krakue doesn’t think the royal couple will fade into obscurity like many hope with more book deals in the pipeline.
‘They’re not going anywhere anytime soon, that’s for sure,’ she said.
The controversial South Park episode, which premiered in the U.S. on February 15, depicts the ‘Prince and Princess of Canada’ – a young royal couple who loudly beg for privacy while drawing attention to themselves.
The prince and his wife, who wears the exact same dusty pink outfit that Meghan donned for the Trooping the Colour in 2018, are seen promoting his book, Waaagh, the cover of which strongly resembles Harry’s memoir Spare.
The episode is filled with swipes at the Sussexes, with main character Stan Marsh branding their cartoon equivalents the ‘dumb prince and his stupid wife’, while Kyle Broflovski complains about the private jet parked outside their home