AMANDA PLATELL: I may not have met Meghan, but I have witnessed how her actions have harmed the Royal Family. This is why I'll never stop criticising the woman who caused our beloved Queen so much distress

By AMANDA PLATELL, DAILY MAIL COLUMNIST Published: 01:33, 4 April 2026 | Updated: 01:33, 4 April 2026 Loose Women panellist Charlene White has called for an end to attacks on the Duchess of Sussex, calling out ‘the public sport of tearing Meghan down’. ‘I just can’t get my head around people getting so deep and meaningful and also hateful about someone they’ve never met,’ she said. Which made me wonder what planet Ms White, 45, has been living on since Meghan arrived and launched a ballistic missile at the heart of the Royal Family. We may not have ‘met’ Meghan, but we didn’t need to because she has spoken for herself. Not least in her vicious Oprah interview when she accused certain royals of being racist. We got to know her, too, in that Netflix documentary when she insulted the Queen by showing off with a mock curtsey. Royal biographer Hugo Vickers wrote in his book Queen Elizabeth II that ‘the distress Harry and Meghan caused the Queen in her last years cannot be overstated’ When royal biographer Hugo Vickers wrote in his book Queen Elizabeth II – serialised in the Daily Mail last week – that ‘the distress Harry and Meghan caused the Queen in her last years cannot be overstated’, he was not ‘tearing Meghan down’. He was documenting impeccably sourced facts. Just as the Daily Mail’s esteemed royal author Robert Hardman is in today’s paper, with his new book, where he reveals the extraordinary demands made by Meghan and Harry in so-called Tiara-gate before their wedding. It cannot even be imagined how much pain Harry’s and Meghan’s departure from Britain’s shores caused the royals and the Queen in her twilight years The idea that the duchess should be above criticism after all this is beyond preposterous. 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The moment she interviewed Lisa Kudrow – who played Phoebe in Friends – and asked all the ‘Phoebes’ planted in the audience to stand up was excruciatingly awful TV. And why, when Claudia and Graham have the same talent agency picking guests, does she get Lisa – when Graham would have got Jennifer Aniston? Florence Pugh pictured with her boyfriend Finn Cole in Milan Dune actress Florence Pugh looked sensational at a Bulgari jewellery event in Milan, oozing old-fashioned glamour as she showed off her hourglass figure. 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