Royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell was accused of being "biased" after he branded Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's claims in their new Netflix docuseries "absurd".
Viewers have been gripped by the first three episodes of the highly anticipated programme, where the Sussexes promised to tell "the full truth".
But Nicholas, who appeared on BBC News at Six to report on the programme, said that it was "relatively benign", although added that it "suggests there is what amounts to a conspiracy between Buckingham Palace and the press."
In one of the emotional scenes, Meghan said: "At that point, I was still very much believing what I was being told, which was, ‘It will pass, it will get better, it’s just what they do right at the very beginning’.
“But truth be told, no matter how hard I tried, no matter how good I was, no matter what I did, they were still going to find a way to destroy me.”
Nicholas said: "First point, who is ‘they’ she is referring to, I think it is the Palace but, most particularly, it is to the press; but the idea that anyone was out to ‘destroy’ her, frankly, I think is absurd and simply does not stand up to proper and reasonable scrutiny.”
But viewers were unimpressed by his comments, with many accusing him of being "biased" against the couple.
