Meghan Markle 'Is A Very Sick Individual' With Real Mental Health Issues: Reform UK Deputy Leader
Meghan Markle easily gets offended, according to a politician.
Ben Habib, the deputy leader of Reform U.K., joined Nana Akua on GB News. During his appearance, they talked about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after the racism row resurfaced following the release of Omid Scobie's new book, "Endgame."
Akua mentioned Prince Harry and Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, and the TV presenter pointed out how the duchess used a specific word to draw imagination. Markle claimed that a member of the royal family raised concerns about their unborn child's skin color, prompting racist allegations against the royal family.
"I think Meghan Markle is a very sick individual," Habib said. Akua interjected that Markle wasn't around to defend herself from such a strong statement, but she previously said she had mental health issues.
"She clearly has. I think she's got real mental health issues," Habib continued. "Because she manages to get offended by the most inoffensive things."
Habib claimed that Markle was welcomed wholeheartedly when she joined the royal family after she started dating Prince Harry. He made a reference to their royal wedding in 2018, which for him was "in no way diminished as a result of her being from an ethnic minority."
The politician added that Markle was "celebrated." However, the former "Suits" actress allegedly "bit the hand that fed her" and those who reportedly put a protective cloak around her. She also allegedly "kicked the institution in the shins."
"I don't understand what's wrong with that woman," he said.
In the same interview, Habib explained why he didn't feel that discussing an unborn child's appearance was racist. He admitted that he is half-English and half-Pakistani, and his ex-wife was English. According to him, when she was pregnant with their kids, they would often discuss their appearances.
"When she was expecting our children, we often discussed what they might look like because we had lots of different ethnic contributions coming into the mix," he explained. "She was half-Russian, a quarter-English and a quarter-Scottish. I'm half-English and half-Pakistani, so we had a real melting pot of genes, and we often discussed what color our children might be, what complexion they might have, what the color of their eyes might be, what sort of hair they might have."
He added, "That's not racist, it's just normal, and even completely white couples discuss the prospective caricatures or the features of their children. So I think the whole thing has been taken out of context."
Prince Harry and Markle didn't drop the name of the royal who allegedly made the racist statement because it would reportedly damage them. In Scobie's new book, he claimed two royals were involved, and the Dutch copy allegedly revealed they were King Charles and Kate Middleton.
Scobie denied including the names of the alleged racist royals and blamed the issue on a translation error. However, several were not convinced by his clarification. Veteran reporter and royal expert Phil Dampier disagreed with it and asked, "How can you mistranslate two names?"
The Dutch translator who translated the English manuscript had also broken her silence amid the issue. Saskia Peeters told MailOnline, "The names of the royals were there in black and white," stressing, "I did not add them."
