Hillary Clinton has accused the British media of cruelty towards Meghan Markle as she voiced her support for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Speaking of Meghan’s bold claims and allegations, the former FLOTUS insisted that the 39-year-old actress was being treated unfairly both by the media as well as the royal family.
“I found it so heart-rending to watch,” Clinton said of the bombshell CBS interview in which Meghan and Harry opened up about their mental health and insisted that one of the senior royals made racist comments towards their then-unborn child.
As the former Secretary of State went on to add, it is “heartbreaking” knowing that the “young woman who was just trying to live her life” was not “fully embraced” by the British press and the “permanent bureaucracy that surrounds the Royal family.”
Taking a jab at the British tabloids during her appearance at a live event by The Washington Post, Clinton said:
“I’ve had my time in the box with the British tabloids, as anybody who is in the public eye has had, and their cruelty in going after Meghan was just outrageous.
“The fact she did not get more support that the reaction was, you know, ‘let’s just paper it over and pretend it didn’t happen or it will go away, just keep your head down’—well, this young woman was not going to keep her head down.
“You know, this is 2021 and she wanted to live her life, she wanted to be fully engaged and she had every right to hope for that.”
The 73-year-old also blasted the monarchy as she suggested they didn’t do enough to properly accept Meghan into the royal family.
“I just think that every institution … has got to make more space and acceptance for young people coming up, particularly young women, who should not be forced into a mold that is no longer relevant, not only for them but for our society,” the former Secretary of State said.
“It was heartbreaking to see the two of them sitting there having to describe how difficult it was to be accepted, to be integrated, not just into the royal family as they described, but more painfully into the larger society’s whose narrative is driven by tabloids that are living in the past.point 402 | 1
“I just hope that there will be some serious, thoughtful consideration in all of the institutions, not just in response to what Meghan and Harry were talking about, but literally across all of our societies. Why do we make it so hard to incorporate diversity, to celebrate it, to be proud of it?”
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