According to reports in the Guardian, Nigel Farage ridiculed Harry’s remarks last month that the couple only wanted two children because of the environmental impact.
The media were not present for Farage’s speech to Sydney’s Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday but the Guardian said it had heard a recording of part of it.
Farage’s spokesman said the comments had been taken out of context and the Guardian had “been naughty and they’re playing fast and loose with this.”
While Farage, who relishes his reputation as a plain-speaking man of the people, lavished praise on the Queen, saying she was “an amazing, awe-inspiring woman, we’re bloody lucky to have her”, he derided her son and heir Prince Charles.
“When it comes to her son, when it comes to Charlie Boy and climate change, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Her mother, Her Royal Highness the queen’s mother, was a slightly overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker who lived to 101 years old,” he said according to the paper.
He also took aim at Charles’s younger son Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
“Well, if I want the queen to live a long time to stop Charlie Boy becoming king, I want Charlie Boy to live even longer and William to live forever to stop Harry becoming king,” Farage was quoted as saying.
“Terrifying! Here was Harry, here he was this young, brave, boisterous, all male, getting into trouble, turning up at stag parties inappropriately dressed, drinking too much and causing all sorts of mayhem. He was the most popular royal of a younger generation that we’ve seen for 100 years.
“And then he met Meghan Markle, and it’s fallen off a cliff.”
Many have said on social media they are increasingly concerned about the direction younger Royals are taking and there was of course the famous spat during President Trump’s visit where the Sussex’s were accused of political manoeuvres.
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