An interview on MSNBC Live ended abruptly after a guest disparaged Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, during a conversation about how she and husband Prince Harry have chosen to step away from their royal duties.
Victoria Mather, identified on the program Saturday morning as a “Vanity Fair royals watcher,” argued the couple likely relinquished their royal duties because Meghan probably did not want “to spend the rest of her life looking at Kate Middleton’s back as she sat in the second row to the future queen.”
Mather also snickered at an unverified claim that Meghan gave her sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, “a knife for Christmas,” before adding, “Which is quite something, isn’t it?”
“I think what has really, really upset the British public is that Meghan Markle, who many people consider as only, you know, five clicks up from trailer trash, has actually tried to disrespect the queen,” she said. “And the queen is the most respected person, most respected woman, in the world.”
The show’s anchor, Lindsey Reiser, ended the interview after the remark, noting the network had not verified her claim about the “knife gifting.”
Mather hasn’t worked at Vanity Fair since 2018, the outlet told BuzzFeed News. Her current titles are “Chief Travel Correspondent Air Mail” and “Columnist Sunday Telegraph,” according to her social media profile.
In a column from September on Air Mail’s website, Mather argued that Meghan “comes from a sadly dysfunctional family, leading to her being unpleasantly trolled as trailer trash.”
Meghan and her father, Thomas Markle, have been embroiled in a legal dispute since the Duchess of Sussex sued Mail on Sunday for breach of copyright after it published a letter between the father and daughter. The two parties have not talked since Markle was exposed for staging paparazzi photos ahead of his daughter’s wedding to Harry.
