Loose Women star and comedian Judi Love has admitted that she feels 'heartbroken' that the Duchess of Sussex was forced to handle racism alone 'with only Harry fighting her corner'.
Last week, a Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner agreed that Meghan had received 'disgusting and very real' threats whilst working as a Royal, prior to her and her husband Prince Harry's resignation and their departure to the States.
Neil Basu - the ex-head of counter-terrorism policing in England - spoke to Channel 4 news in his final interview as assistant commissioner last Wednesday.
"If you'd seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it, the kind of rhetoric that's online, if you don't know what I know, you would feel under threat all of the time," he told viewers.
Asked whether there had been genuine threats against Meghan from the far-right, he confirmed: "Absolutely. We had teams investigating it. People have been prosecuted for those threats."
Sharing her own thoughts on Meghan's horrific treatment, Loose Women star Judi said that it's difficult to fathom how she made it through such hate and adversity.
"The Met have confirmed Meghan Markle got 'very real' threats while she was a working royal," the TV panellist, 42, writes in her latest OK! column.
"In the same week, it emerged Prince William’s godmother – Elizabeth II’s lady-in-waiting, Lady Susan Hussey – made racist remarks to Ngozi Fulani at a Buckingham Palace do.
"I hope this incident, and having the police now standing by her, makes people take Meghan’s claims about the discriminatory comments she received seriously."
Judi continues: "Now we’ve seen the horrific threats to Meghan, Harry’s anger makes sense. It just breaks my heart that prior to this, she had to go through this alone with only Harry fighting her corner."
Former actress Meghan, who moved to California alongside husband Harry, their son Archie in 2020 – before the birth of her daughter Lilibet – regularly spoke out about the abuse they received before they left for America.
Back in 2016, after the pair first confirmed their relationship, the Prince issued a statement hitting out at social media trolls for targeting his wife after the announcment.
Following their bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview in March 2021, where both Meghan and Harry opened up about the racist remarks made towards them by members of the Royal family, fans are set to get even further insight into Harry and Meghan's struggles over the past years as their Netflix docuseries is set to be released on Thursday, 8 December.
It comes as the Royal Family have been warned to brace themselves for their worst nightmare as Harry and Meghan’s bombshell Netflix documentary series airs this week.
One source in contact with a Netflix production insider said: “I genuinely think it’s going to be worse than the royals can imagine.x“
Now royal sources say King Charles and Prince William will hold crisis talks to respond to any allegations of racism or ill-treatment of Harry and Meghan in their TV series.
Senior aides to the monarch and Prince and Princess of Wales plan to watch the three episodes in order to react swiftly to any further damaging accusations against the monarchy.
