LBC callers react to 'disturbing allegations' about Meghan Markle's father

I don't believe a word this person says. It has been disgusting the way this country has treated this young woman. Why aren't they berating them? I think it's just racism. Susan in Harrogate. You can tell it's Friday, can't you? Hello. Hello, Sheila. Hi. I think we have a little insight into Meghan's personality. When she demanded of the late Queen that she could borrow the tiara with the emerald in it. And when the Queen refused, Meghan threw a hissy fit, apparently. Apparently. Apparently. Yeah. Who told you that? People who witness. Oh, isn't there all the newspapers? Exactly, exactly. There's all kinds of nonsense in the newspapers, isn't there? Yes. Well, yes. And I think this is all nonsense. I don't believe a word this person says. I don't think these letters. I don't believe anything. Meghan Markle. Oh, OK. Because if I write a personal letter to somebody, Sheila, I promise you no one else will see it. How come all these letters, personal letters have been leaked? I don't believe they existed. I don't believe, therefore, they were written at the time. I think this is yet another attempt of Meghan Markle, because her ratings with the public is on the floor, to raise that standard. I think, I don't believe anything. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Just stop for a second, Susan. Yes, yes. This revelation about the allegations against her father did not come from Meghan Markle. she's known about them for nigh on a decade and did not speak about them in public or write about them in public ever despite being interviewed by some of the best in the business um they did not come from her that's not why they're in the public domain today right well what well the letters she's personal letters they're in the or someone's leaking personal letters I don't believe any of it I believe what the Met Police is saying obviously but the reason Susan the reason your letters and my letters don't matter one jot to people is that we're just Sheila and Susan if we were the Duchess of Sussex or the Princess of Wales or the Prince of Wales or the future King or whatever people want to get their hands on your letters they want to get their hands on an email you sent to somebody complaining about something of course it's not an email I know I'm talking about in general terms I'm talking about yeah it's a personal letter if I if I wrote you a personal letter I would make I'm damn sure nobody else saw it, I promise you that. I think most people would. How would you do that? How would you do it if I decided to leak it? Well, do you know what I'd do? I'd probably destroy it after I wrote it. It was so personal. No, you sent it to me. I physically got the letter. Well, why would anyone expose that? Her whole demeanour throughout this, all she's done is seek publicity. Susan, if you send a letter to somebody and it turns out your father and it turns out he cannot be trusted to keep anything private, as it turned out, and she was learning that slowly but surely around this time, then it's not her leaking the letter, is it? OK, OK. Well, OK, somebody else has leaked the letter. But I don't... Why aren't you berating them? Sorry? Why aren't you berating them? Well, you shouldn't have... Nobody should leak anything, in my opinion. Yeah. Unless it's in the public interest. But, well, you know, even then, maybe, it depends on the context. It's always about the context, isn't it? Not private letters, but... No, from day one, all she's done is seek publicity. And, you know, with respect, Sheila, you're saying leave her alone. You're devoting two or three hours to her. So I don't know why you don't follow your own good advice. You know, just leave her alone. All she wants is more and more publicity. Leave her alone. You know, the reason, can I just say finally, The reason everybody likes Kate is because Kate keeps her mouth shut. Meghan can't do that. What's Meghan said? Oh, let's say the Oprah Winfrey interview, when she intimated. She's very careful, isn't she? She never actually said racism was used about the colour of the unborn child. She never specifically said that. She just intimated it. That's what she does. She intimates things. she doesn't say anything she'd be sued for but she intimates well listen and that's the danger of it all you say kate keeps her mouth shut a yeah i think that's you know i don't think it's great for people to keep their mouth shut all the time and b she doesn't let me let me explain why i mean that what what would i mean when i say that as princess of wales um and i think before she was princess of wales as well she made the subject of children's early years a topic that she wants to talk about and she does talk about it and she talks about it well i think and she's clearly a brilliant with kids that's evident every time she meets them um but she doesn't keep her mouth shut she actually says what are quite i think political things about education and child rearing and and i mean she she has to do it carefully but she does it um she doesn't keep her mouth shut so when Kate speaks and talks about what she's interested in we praise her to the hilt and i do praise her to the hilt for choosing that topic it's a brilliant topic to focus on and to bring her attention to well why doesn't Megan do that then well megan's done lots of different things as you know think of the she just met her she met up with them again the Grenfell Kitchen and the people who made the cookbook with her because it's all about her it's not about them well why hang on oh my god this is a classic i'm gonna finish it there just for time reasons i promise you it's all about them it's all about them what do you think the royal family are about Susan it's a deal isn't it they do the good stuff come and visit and open the thing and da da da da and you know focus on on child rearing and all that and they get good publicity because of it that is the deal because the deal must be maintained that we wish them to be in our public life that's the deal you can like it or loathe it but that's the deal if you think prince william um or or kate or any of them going to you know launch something or talk about something or give their attention to something is purely about their desire to do it i mean prince philip said himself we don't we don't always do this for our own good you know what doing we're not doing this for our own good and there's a there is a duty there without a doubt for a working royal no doubt there is but it's also about keeping them relevant and in the public eye kate gets good publicity and dresses beautifully and looks amazing and does the right thing and she does all of those things and power to her um and she gets praise for it megan does what she does and gets trounced for it it's just i'm sorry i susan i think it's just racism i really do from many quarters i don't know whether race is driving yours but you've obviously decided perhaps from reading too many tabloids that she's she's evil and kate is an angel and and this is the madness that we do jan and Hammersmith hello hello um hi sheila i just wanted to say i think right from the get-go it has been disgusting the way this country has treated this young woman who has done absolutely nothing wrong polarized her before they knew her character made judgments and ridiculed her um and obviously she was carrying the burden not only of the entire country practically hating now, she's carrying the burden of her father, yet she couldn't go public at that time, because obviously it was being, in inverted commas, investigated, okay and to the fact that... Well it doesn't need to be in inverted commas it was being investigated. Yeah, but I mean you know, they like to keep these things private at least while they're investigating. Yes, exactly quite right. So she couldn't share that with the general public on top of that, the press were pitting her against her father against her siblings and I just think, right It's disgusting. I tell you, Sheila, I cannot put words around. I had the most heinous father and he was a bully. He was violent and he completely destroyed five daughters and three wives. And I can tell you now, I'm absolutely despite his dead. I don't care. And how she has kept her dignity is is is nothing but amazing. And if I may say as well, at this moment in time in this country, we need every bit of niceness and kindness. The fact that I don't care if they do hybrid, I don't care if they're part-time earning money and part-time supporting the Royal Family, because there will be loads of people. But I think underneath, people are a little bit worried she might do a Diana and be very successful and overshadow William. and i honestly think that because harry is a warm person he's open he doesn't hide he's coming i don't think we need i don't think we need to do this to the two brothers either you know i've i've got siblings i don't need to be exactly like them to love them i don't need to have the same successes that they have to be functional you know yeah sibling bonds can be complex but but they don't need to be they don't need to be super complex as long as everybody accepts that they're just you know you have the privilege of being born by the same parents and then off and then you go and you you do with your life what you wish to do with your life and hope they have happiness and success as well totally agree with you there and i think as well she could be a fantastic if she could face it a fantastic supporter of people of people that have been in situations of abuse but i mean you know that's devastating but she is a supporter of people in all kinds of situations whether it's about abuse or not but what she could do i'm just saying this is hypothetical i'm not saying she should in any way shape or form but she could be such a wonderful person to highlight it's okay to tell it's okay to come forward it's okay to report because you know i've got so honestly i don't know why people bullied her the way they did i cannot understand that and shame on the press shame on social media shame on the british public who and like yourself i saw shocking stuff written about her and i thought what i can't even put into words because i've been the victim of bullying you know i was bullied at school it's vicious absolutely vicious i'm sorry you were bullied at school jan that's horrible and it still goes on far too much doesn't it thank you very much jan and hannah smith and i think an important point jan makes there is we do need to be kinder to one another we do um and i don't know why i'm talking about that in relation to tabloids it's never going to happen beth in putney hello beth hello i would just like to say it seems to me that it's very strange that people have forgotten what is now called diana's book it was written by andrew morton but we know it's her word it nearly brought down the monarchy because People were shocked to read that she had made several suicide attempts while she was living with Charles, with Charles. And she criticized in the book also a lot of the royals, especially Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, because it was in her home that Charles and Camilla met for, shall we call it, tea. And then she complained about not being supported by the palace. and then also said that it was actually them who decided, it was the courtier who decided what went on with the family. And Fergie went twice on Oprah and also wrote a tell-all book. And the one that Harry wrote, the Netflix first came after over 50 books about written royal barquets and everything with all different kind of tales. And Charles did it as Prince of Wales, didn't he? Remember, he had a book written about him and gave a long interview to Jonathan Dimbleby. Thank you very much, Beth, for your call. Beth in Putney. Is it time to leave Meghan Markle alone in terms of character assassination and maybe maybe try once in a while to believe what she says to you?