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Nelson Mandela's grandson blasts Meghan Markle for bizarre wedding comparison
Meghan Markle has been slammed for comparing Nelson Mandela's activism with her marrying into the Royal Family.In her tell-all chat with US glossy magazine The Cut, the Duchess of Sussex boasted about a conversation she once had with a cast member of the West End's Lion King.Meghan recalled how the actor told her how South Africa celebrated her wedding with Prince Harry just as it did after Nelson Mandela was freed from prison and dismantled apartheid in the country.READ MORE: Meghan Markle blasts Royal Instagram policy in frontpage interview with glam US magazineSoon after giving birth for the first time in 2019, Meghan attended the West End show where she says a cast member pulled her aside and said: "I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.”Reacting to the claim on Tuesday, Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zwelivelile 'Mandla' Mandela dismissed the suggestion that Meghan tying the knot inspired the same celebrations.The MP and chief of the late South African President's Mvezo tribe told MailOnline: "Madiba's celebration was based on overcoming 350 years of colonialism with 60 years of a brutal apartheid regime in South Africa."So It cannot be equated to as the same."Nelson Mandela spent 27 years behind bars as a political prisoner before leading South Africa into a new age, inspiring jubilant street parties as residents had their lives re-shaped for good.Zwelivelile added: "We are still bearing scars of the past.
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Prince Harry branded 'professional victim' who 'whines at every chance he gets'
royal commentator has labelled Prince Harry a “professional victim” in a live TV interview following his speech to the UN. Kat Timpf, a contributor on Fox News, told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan: “He has been whining at every chance he gets about almost everything non-stop without offering any solution or acknowledgement for the way some of his own behaviour might contribute to the problems."She said Harry was likely to have a bigger carbon footprint than she did: “I really can’t stand the climate lecture from somebody who took a private jet most assuredly to go give that speech.”READ MORE: Prince Harry 'was riddled with anxiety' at UN speech, claims body language expertShe added: “If you’re born a prince you generally have advantages that almost no one else will have to make your life whatever it is you want, with maybe one exception and that is to be a professional victim.“The career path that he is most attracted to is he is whining at every chance he gets.”Timpf’s comments came in relation to the Duke of Sussex’s speech to the United Nations general assembly at an event to honour Nelson Mandela.The prince discussed a range of issues facing the world today including “climate change wreaking havoc on our planet with the most vulnerable suffering most of all.
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'Dumb as a rock' Piers Morgan rips into Prince Harry amid Nelson Mandela comparisons
Piers Morgan lashed out at Prince Harry in his latest column as he rejected the notion the royal could be compared to South African activist Nelson Mandela.The Duke of Sussex, 37, was watched by his wife Meghan Markle, 40, as he made a keynote speech to the United Nations (UN) in New York City yesterday.The royal issued a thinly-veiled critique of the US Supreme Court’s decision to end abortion rights during a speech marking Nelson Mandela International Day.He also addressed issues affecting the world including the negative impact of climate change and global warming.Piers, 57, has hit out as he accused the royal of "lecturing the world" as he slammed Harry's UN speech.Writing in his new column for The Sun, the Uncensored host vented his frustrations as he took issue with comparisons between the former South African president and the Duke of Sussex.Piers wrote: "Mandela was fiercely intelligent, remarkably resilient, astoundingly courageous, devoted to his family and country, genuinely humble, highly principled, incredibly inspiring, and lit up any room he entered with a smile that warmed the world."Harry, by contrast, is as dumb as a rock, breathtakingly arrogant, woefully hypocritical, deserted his family and country, is a permanently miserable whiny mood-hoover, doesn’t inspire me to open a crisp packet, and wouldn’t understand a principle if it slapped him round his haughty woke-ravaged chops."He added: "It takes a special kind of brazen brass neck to stand up at the United Nations in New York, as he did today, and lecture the world about climate change when you constantly use luxury gas-guzzling private jets like a taxi service."Meghan and Harry arrived in New York to address the General Assembly to celebrate the
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