In what became a landmark ruling, the U.K.’s Independent Press Standards Organisation chose to uphold sexism complaints regarding a 2022 article about Meghan Markle that triggered more than 25,000 responses after being published by The Sun.
“IPSO has upheld a complaint that a column in The Sun about the Duchess of Sussex included a pejorative and prejudicial reference to her sex,” the IPSO tweeted Friday. “This was a serious breach of the Editors’ Code of Practice.”
The British press watchdog group launched an investigation into the article in which author Jeremy Clarkson called for the wife of Prince Harry to be paraded through English streets naked while being pelted with excrement, according to the Independent.
