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Student faked being a black Irish 'lord' to defend Prince Harry and Meghan in race row
Meghan Markle.Alexander Jackson Maier, 22, from New Rochelle in New York State, has apologised for pretending to be the 'Marquess of Annaville' in an epic hoax.Off the back of Prince Harry and Meghan's racism claims during their bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview, the joker weighed in as someone who could relate.In doing so Jackson Maier tricked major newspapers, including The Independent, into publishing that he was an Irish peer and a "black British member of the aristocracy". An article quoting the American has been deleted and he has confessed to having no aristocratic ties and invented the title, The Mirror reports.
