Record number of complaints against ‘Sun’ guest post on Meghan King Charles on UK banknotes – somehow looks younger

A hateful guest post by British presenter Jeremy Clarkson in The Sun tabloid about Duchess Meghan has sparked a record number of complaints.

The PA news agency, citing Britain’s Independent Press Standard Organization (Ipso) press council, reported Tuesday that more than 17,500 complaints against the text had been received by morning. That’s more than the Journalism Council had received in all of the previous year — and more than ever before for a single contribution.

Clarkson had written in the guest post last week, “I hate Meghan”. He also fantasized that he wanted Prince Harry’s 41-year-old wife to be paraded naked through British cities and pelted with excrement by a mob.

The text caused a storm of outrage. Even Clarkson’s daughter Emily, who hosts a podcast, distanced herself from her father. The 62-year-old then shared via Twitter that he had made an “awkward” allusion to the “Game of Thrones” series. He announced that he would be more careful in the future. The “Sun” has removed the guest post on its website at the author’s request.

More than 60 MPs from different parties wrote a letter to the editor of the “Sun” Victoria Newton demanding an apology from the paper and consequences for Clarkson.

The guest post was in response to the release of the second part of the documentary series “Harry & Meghan” on Netflix. In it, the two explain the reasons for their departure from the inner circle of the British royal family. (sda / dpa)