Piers Morgan erupted during a debate on his YouTube channel with historian Tessa Dunlop over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, accusing the couple of “behaving like actual royals” after their four-day visit to Australia. The argument turned heated fast, with Morgan cutting across Dunlop and telling her, “Okay, let’s quit the Duchess b******t. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex? No, I’m from Sussex.”
The clash came as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were being discussed for a trip that, in the eyes of their critics and admirers alike, looked much like a royal tour. During the visit, Harry and Meghan bid farewell to Australia after stopping at the national war memorial, a children’s hospital and a string of good causes. Meghan also filmed a MasterChef appearance and attended a women’s retreat while in the country.
In the exchange on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Dunlop said she found it “honest” what the couple were doing in Australia and argued that Meghan had not demanded to be introduced as Duchess. Morgan snapped back with a profanity-laced retort and later said the pair had “absolutely trashed the Royal Family at the moment when Philip was dying, then again after the [late] Queen died.” He added that there was now an established way to remove titles when actions dishonour the monarchy, pointing to the case of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suggesting Harry and Meghan should face the same treatment.
The discussion then widened to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, after Dunlop said the sisters had “indirectly damaged the royal brand” by flying to Miami with Sarah Ferguson to visit Jeffrey Epstein in July 2009, less than a week after he was released from prison. She said Eugenie was 19 and Beatrice was 20 at the time. Morgan pushed back, saying it was unfair to attack “two young women in their early twenties” for decisions made by their parents, and told Dunlop she was making “low blows.”
The row matters because it shows how a trip that was meant to project poise and charity has become ammunition in a wider fight over who gets to wear royal titles, who deserves them and what behavior crosses the line. Morgan made his position plain: in his view, Harry and Meghan have gone too far, but the sisters should not be dragged into the same fight for choices made long before they were adults.
That leaves the sharper answer in Morgan’s own words. He was not just angry about the Sussexes’ Australian tour; he was arguing that the monarchy’s rules should now be enforced against anyone who, in his view, damages the institution. And on that point, he left little room for doubt.
