Meghan Markle and Queen Charlie Hebdo cartoon causes outrage

Meghan Markle and Queen Charlie Hebdo cartoon causes outrage

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The cover cartoon came days after Meghan and her husband Harry made a series of hard-hitting accusations against the royal family in an interview with Oprah Winfrey – including that the skin tone of the couple’s son, Archie, was discussed as a potential problem before that he was born.

The couple did not reveal who made the comments, but said it was not Queen Elizabeth II or her husband, Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. In the interview, Meghan also described having regular suicidal thoughts during pregnancy and brief time as a real worker, and the couple said the palace offered Meghan and Archie inadequate security and protection.

The cartoon was published on Saturday.

The cartoon, published on Saturday, is titled “WHY MEGHAN QUIT BUCKINGHAM”, with Meghan drawn to say, “Because I couldn’t breathe anymore!”

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Halima Begum, CEO of the racial equality research institute Runnymede Trust, said the design was “wrong at all levels”.

“The Queen as GeorgeFloyd’s killer crushing Meghan’s neck? Meghan saying she can’t breathe? It doesn’t cross the line, it doesn’t make anyone laugh or it defies racism. It lowers the issues and causes offense, across the board” she said in Twitter.
Meghan and Harry’s interview sparked wide-ranging discussions about racism both in the royal family and in the country’s media.
Prince William denied this week that the royal family is racist, saying to a reporter, “We are not a racist family”.

In a statement on behalf of the queen, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday that Sussex’s allegations of racism were worrying and “taken very seriously”.

Buckingham Palace and representatives of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex declined to comment on Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon.

The Paris-based weekly publication, which was founded in 1970, is famous for its provocative designs and dismissals of politicians, public figures and religious symbols.

In 2015, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the magazine’s office and shot employees, killing 12 and wounding 11 after the magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

The attack on the magazine was part of a series of deadly attacks that killed 17 people in the French capital for three days in January 2015.

CNN’s Max Foster contributed reporting.

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