Camilla was shit-talking Meghan and basically got caught.
The day after she had lunch with the guy, he writes a column hating on Meghan so over the top he got called out by the British press authorities. Yes, they actually have that over there. Go Figure. And here we were, just thinking she was a nice old lady trying to get everybody sorted and calm things down. Not so simple.
Major egg on her face (from today's Washington Post) :
In the 2022 column, Clarkson wrote: “I hate her,” of Meghan, 41. “I hate her on a cellular level.”
“At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, “Shame!” and throw lumps of excrement at her,” he continued.
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“This was a serious breach of the Editors’ Code of Practice,” IPSO Chairman Edward Faulks in a statement. “We found that the imagery employed by the columnist in this article was humiliating and degrading toward the Duchess.”
He reiterated that the regulators’ purpose is to protect the public and freedom of expression by upholding high editorial standards.
The column received “more than 25,100 complaints from the public,” according to IPSO — and was reported in another publication to be the article most complained about to the press body since it was established in 2014. The formal complaint was brought by two women’s rights nonprofit groups — the Fawcett Society and the WILDE Foundation.
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In the public backlash at the time, senior politicians as well as Clarkson’s own daughter lambasted the op-ed. It also dragged the wife of King Charles III, Camilla, into the furor after it emerged that she had hosted Clarkson at a palace luncheon a few days before the column ran.