The portrayal of Meghan Markle’s parody character in South Park will hopefully be an “eye opener” for the Sussexes, royal biographer Angela Levin has said. The expert commented on a particular scene in the the satirical show which bashed the Duke and Duchess.
In the show, the Prince and Princess of Canada – who closely resemble Harry and Meghan – go on a “Worldwide Privacy Tour” while the Prince has written a tell-all book titled Waaagh.
At the end of the episode, Prince Harry, or rather the Prince of Canada, decides he doesn’t want to be a “brand” anymore.
“Trying to make ourselves into a brand just turned us into products,” he explains to the Princess of Canada. “We don’t need to be a brand do we. If it’s truly what we want we can get away from it all. No more magazines and Netflix shows. We really can lead a normal life.”
He tells his wife what really matters is on the inside before opening her mouth to have a look. He then shouts “hello” only to hear an echo.
“You realise there’s nothing there,” Ms Levin said on TalkTV. “That was an incredible statement, that they think of her as callous, superficial, not caring about anyone else.”
She added: “I think that that was a real knock on the head.”
Since the scathing South Park episode, the Sussexes have seen another drop in their popularity in the US, according to recent polling.
A Redfield and Wilton survey conducted for Newsweek revealed that Harry’s net approval rating fell from -7 percent in January to -10 percent on February 19.
The Duke’s approval rating has tanked by 48 points since December 5, when he registered a positive net score of +38. Since then, the Duke and Duchess released their Netflix docuseries while Harry dropped his tell-all, Spare.
Meghan’s ratings also fell as her +23 positive in December collapsed to -17 percent in February, having stood at -13 percent in January just after Spare was released.
