The double standards are glaring. Meghan Sussex once wore earrings from the royal collection during a 2018 state dinner in Fiji. These earrings, originally gifted to Queen Elizabeth II by the Saudi royal family, were on loan to Meghan as part of standard royal practice. The British media implied Meghan bore moral complicity in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi because they believed the earrings came from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. She faced a coordinated smear campaign just days before her Oprah interview aired.
Fast forward to 2025. Prince William and Princess Kate were reportedly vacationing on the superyacht Opera, which is widely believed to be owned by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the UAE’s foreign minister and a key figure in a regime with a record of human rights violations. There is no outcry, no tabloid rage, and no panel of commentators asking whether Kate Middleton condones state brutality. The hypocrisy speaks volumes.
The Media Smeared Meghan Over Jewelry She Did Not Own
In 2021, The Times and The Telegraph published pieces accusing Meghan of wearing earrings allegedly gifted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. These stories emerged shortly before her Oprah interview with Prince Harry.
Though the earrings were part of the Queen’s collection and loaned to Meghan for official events, the media used the timing to cast her as indifferent to human rights abuses.
A report revealed Meghan Markle wore a pair of earrings gifted to her by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman, who was linked to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi@Piersmorgan asks how that sits with her values?
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) March 3, 2021
Let us know what you think👇 pic.twitter.com/coZiA6mLAg
A Sussexes spokesperson formally rebutted the claim, clarifying that Meghan did not personally receive the earrings. The media ignored that fact. British commentators such as Andrew Neil (Mail columnist and Times Radio anchor), Chris Ship (ITV News royal editor), Andrew Pierce (Daily Mail consultant editor and GMB pundit), Kevin Maguire (journalist and political commentator), and Piers Morgan (former Good Morning Britain host and TalkTV anchor) used the jewelry controversy to reinforce a narrative that cast Meghan as calculating or indifferent to human rights concerns.
5 White Men discussing how Meghan Markle killed Khashoggi with her ear rings, bullied people like the Home Secretary, & has scared the living daylights out of the establishment without having said anything, yet
— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) March 3, 2021
Misogyny & Racism is a toxic mix pic.twitter.com/GsBwdIBLH8
Queen Elizabeth and other royals, including Diana and Camilla, have worn jewels from Saudi Arabia for decades without facing similar scrutiny.
This level of coordinated outrage, timed just days before Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview aired on March 7, 2021, felt particularly strategic given the gravity of what the Sussexes later revealed. In that interview, Meghan detailed her mental health struggles, the institution’s refusal to support her, and shocking claims about conversations concerning the skin tone of her unborn child. Harry spoke candidly about feeling trapped within the system and abandoned by his family.
So the media’s aggressive focus on earrings, paired with the palace’s silence on the couple’s deeper concerns, now appears less like journalism and more like preemptive damage control. It raises the question of whether the palace and parts of the press worked in tandem to discredit Meghan’s character before the public could hear the full extent of her allegations against both institutions.
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William And Kate Face No Questions Over UAE Ties
This month, onlookers allegedly spotted William and Kate lounging on the superyacht Opera during their vacation in Kefalonia. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates and a senior figure in an authoritarian regime that jails dissidents and suppresses press freedom, owns the vessel.
The Waleses are lounging off Kefalonia on Opera – a superyacht owned by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling autocratic family 🤮
— Exposing Royals (@ExposingRoyals) July 22, 2025
At this point, the crown no longer serves Britain – just whoever funds the royals’ luxury lives👑💰 #AbolishTheMonarchy pic.twitter.com/HLewrm8Koj
There has been no widespread media commentary on their choice of holiday host. No one asked whether they were endorsing the UAE’s actions by accepting such luxurious hospitality. The same press that claimed Meghan’s earrings were symbolic of Saudi violence now protects William and Kate from similar association.
These omissions are not accidental. They reveal the political function of royal coverage in the UK. When Meghan challenges palace control, she becomes a target. When William and Kate lounge on yachts tied to controversial regimes, silence reigns. This isn’t just media bias. It is complicity.
The public deserves honest reporting, not weaponized outrage. Meghan was dragged for wearing earrings she did not own, at a time when the Crown still enjoyed close diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia. William and Kate now accept private hospitality from one of the UAE’s most powerful figures and get a free press pass. The difference isn’t ethics. It’s whose image the British media wants to protect.
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Apparently you can slag off Meghan and Harry to your hearts content true stories or not. But please do not write anything about Mrs and Mrs I don’t like working. A comedian once said about these two they could murder someone and the British media would spin it into a positive story. Journalism has gone to a corner and died in the Uk
You have previously shown your ignorance on the British Royal Family, your racism towards them, and your hatred of them while you shill for Meghan, your articles are sounding more and more like they were written by Meghan Markle. Time for you to stay in your lane and stop writing about matters you know nothing about. You are racist, and ignorant, time to educate yourself on things that aren’t what you are fed by a grifter.
Please get that mental health support you need to fix your racism, hatred and deranged syndrome towards a person you don’t know, have never met and who doesn’t even know you exist!.
You are clearly a deranged troll who is either a racist or needs serious mental health support, since you believe the blatant lies by the toxic, racist and mysogynistic British media, who are hell bent to destroy Meghan Sussex and Prince Harry in behalf of the cruel jealous and dysfunctional RF.
How can you hate someone you have never met, who btw, doesn’t even know you exist? Please get that mental health support you need.
King and Queen serial adulterers for over 30years.
Taking millions of taxpayers money plus 2new helicopters this year while government struggling for money.
Paedophile Andrew protected to the tune of £12million
William and Charles tenants paying rent for substandard houses.
Charles paying minimum wage to his gardeners who he verbally abuses.
Charles attacks his staff pays them minimum wage.
William constantly briefing the press with stories about his brother and father.
So no I don’t think a small black American women is the problem with that family,
If you hate Meghan is says more about you than is does her. Some of the hater are just sad unfulfilled people who need someone to blame.
They don’t take millions. The taxpayer only pays the expenses in relation to the royal family’s public duties. Their private expenses are paid with proceeds from the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall which they have held for many hundreds of years.
Last year the Crown Estates, which are held by the current monarch in right of the crown, paid £1.1 billion into our treasury.
Then the took out 500m for police security . They are supplying them with 2new helicopters. William also refused to make his income available to know what he pays in tax Not to mention the bags of money Charles got from the saudi. They most disgusting thing of all is watching Camilla being crowned queen and wearing the Kate queen jewels.While I am not a monarchist I respected the late queen but have no respect for Mrs tampon