Piers Morgan is “suspicious” over Meghan Markle skipping Donald Trump’s recent state visit to the United Kingdom, he wrote in his latest column for the Daily Mail.
The television personality said that the Duchess of Sus𝓈ℯ𝓍’s absence during the visit was a “shameful failure of her royal duty,” despite the fact that she was on maternity leave one month after giving birth to her first son, Archie Harrison.
While husband, Prince Harry, attended a singular lunch with the Trump family during their three-day visit, reporters said that he was “noticeably” distant during the event following Trump’s comments that he “didn’t know” Meghan was “nasty” after he was made aware that the former “Suits” actress had called him “misogynistic” back in 2016.
“She’s the only American in the British royal family, and the leader of HER country was here in her adopted country as a guest of Her Majesty the Queen,” Morgan continued in his column. “So call me suspicious, but I don’t think her absence from Trump’s visit had anything to do with her 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢, and everything to do with her dislike of her President.”
Five days after skipping the Queen’s official State Banquet on Monday, which served as the main event during the Trumps’ visit, Meghan appeared at Trooping the Colour on Saturday alongside her husband. Morgan pointed to her decision to attend that event, which is an annual event honoring Queen Elizabeth’s birthday, as proving she is picking and choosing events she wants to go to based on personal preference.
“The moment Trump had gone, Meghan suddenly popped up at the Trooping of the Colour, in an open-top carriage, looking in radiant good health and with a permanently beaming grin,” he wrote, adding that her skipping the presidential visit was “unacceptable” and “not part of the deal” of being a royal.
“We all know why she did it — she hates Trump with a passion, and views him, as she once said on TV, as a ‘divisive misogynist.’ It’s an opinion she shares with all her liberal celebrity friends who attended her wedding, from the Clooneys and Oprah to Sir Elton John, Serena Williams and James Corden,” he continued. “And my firm guess is that she deliberately snubbed Trump because she was absolutely terrified of being photographed with him and looking like she may be enjoying his company – rather than clubbing him over the head with a giant hammer.”
“For Meghan, hanging out with Trump would have brand-ruinous. In her eyes, she would have betrayed her liberal mates, and everything they stand for,” Morgan went on. “Of course, that attitude is entirely her prerogative. But what is NOT her prerogative is to use that personal dislike of him to snub the state visit.”
“By doing so, she was not just giving the metaphorical bird to Trump, as she would have most definitely wanted to do, she was giving it to his host the Queen, her country who he is representing and the country whom she now represents,” he added. “This may not have been Meghan’s intention, but that was the effect of her refusal to be involved.”
Meghan isn’t expected to return to her full royal duties until early fall, while Prince Harry has already resumed all of his royal duties.
