MEGHAN MARKLE MOCKED! Book called 'pious, hectoring gibberish'

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Critics are heaping derision on Meghan Markle’s new children’s book, characterizing it as an exercise in hypocrisy.

Markle announced the $18.99 tome — called The Bench — which she said is inspired by hubby Prince Harry and their son Archie.

But the book is about relationships between fathers and their children which is ironic given the Duchess of Sussex’s own tumultuous relationship with her father.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told the Daily Mail the choice of subject matter was “extraordinary”.

“According to its publishers, it is a touching, illustrated exploration of the ‘special bond between father and son’ told through a mother’s eyes,'” Fitzwilliams told the newspaper.

“The choice of subject matter, however, was bound to raise eyebrows. Meghan seeks to highlight the undoubted bond between Harry and Archie, but it is common knowledge that she is publicly estranged from her own father, Thomas, whom Harry has never met.”

He added: “Also, the fact that Harry recently revealed to the world on Oprah that there was a rift between him and his father and that he had been cut off financially, was one of many shocks which that unfortunate interview provided.”

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And the former Suits actress was also keen to burnish the twosome’s woke bona fides by saying the tale would be told through an “inclusive lens.”

Royal author Penny Junor told the U.K. Sun she thought the 39-year-old was on “dodgy ground.”

“It’s very easy to talk about relationships between fathers and sons when they are two-years-old,” Junor said. “But problems come when the children are older — as Meghan found out with her father and Harry with Prince Charles.”

Junor added: “She is on dodgy ground because of her relationship with her father and Harry with his.”

Fitzwilliams said that given the damaging Oprah interview, a book about families is rich indeed.

“It is the most extraordinary time for Meghan to choose to highlight the relations between fathers and sons, as though she, the main participant in one of the most divisive interviews ever given, was actually a healer,” he said.

It is estimated that Markle received an advance of between $425,000 and $850,000. She used the pen name Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.”

Longtime Markle critic Piers Morgan was particularly cutting.

“When it comes to flogging her book, what author name does Meghan Markle use? Ah, of course: ‘Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex’,” Morgan wrote in the Daily Mail.

“Yes, she continues to cynically exploit her royal titles because she knows that’s the only reason anyone is paying her vast sums of money to spew her uniquely unctuous brand of pious hectoring gibberish in Netflix documentaries, Spotify podcasts, or children’s books.”

bhunter@postmedia.com

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