Matthew Wright claims he’s been branded ‘racist’ for criticising Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Matthew Wright claimed that he’s been branded ‘racist’ for criticising the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s public spending. 

The Talk Radio host, 54, from London, believes that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have a ‘bizarre disconnect’ with the British public and says that he has been dubbed a racist on Twitter for airing criticisms of the couple. 

The presenter said he took issue with the couple spending ‘£20 million of public money’ for their wedding security, while being hesitant to show pictures of their six-month-old son Archie, who was born in May last year. 

Appearing on This Morning today, alongside Trisha Goddard, he claimed that the royal couple have a ‘different set of rules for themselves’, and believes they shouldn’t be preaching on the environment while frequently traveling abroad themselves. 

Appearing on This Morning today, alongside Trisha Goddard (pictured right), Matthew (pictured left) claimed that the royal couple have a ‘different set of rules for themselves’

He said: ‘I’m fascinated by the bizarre disconnect. 

‘That they love lecturing people on saving the planet, you know every drop of water is precious, don’t take airplane travel and yet they’ll happily fly off to Canada, come back again. 

‘It just seems to me, there’s a set of rules for them and set of rules for everyone else.’ 

Trisha, 62, interjected to explain that she feels the couple, especially Meghan, have had a lot of ‘vitriol towards them’. 

Matthew continued: ‘You can understand, to take £20 million of public money to pay for the security of your wedding. 

The presenter takes issue with the couple spending ’20 million of public money’ for their wedding security, while being hesitant to show pictures of their six-month-old son Archie last year

‘Then you don’t supply say pictures of your baby, you can see why they’re miffed off.’ 

Trisha  weighed in, arguing that there’s a difference between being ‘a bit miffed’ and making racist and misogynistic comments. 

‘Look at publications like Hello! magazine, who say for the first time they’ve had to employ someone to take racist and misogynistic stuff and I think that includes a lot of the issues’, said Trisha. 

Matthew argued: ‘You don’t think taking £20 million quid off the public and not giving the public the thing the public want’. 

Before he could finish, Trisha interjected: ‘So then you call them a racist name’. 

He quickly replied: ‘No, but I’ve seen on Twitter that when I raise issues like that like them taking £20 million from the public to provide security for their wedding and then not feeling any burden to show the public any photos of the baby – then I get called a racist.’ 

Meghan and Harry did have a photocall with Archie a few days after he was born, but kept details surrounding his birth and christening private, as well as refusing to name his godparents.  

 Trisha weighed in, arguing that there’s a difference between being ‘a bit miffed’ and making racist and misogynistic comments

Elsewhere in the show, the presenters also discussed whether or not the Duke and Duchess had broken royal protocol by thanking Canada after their Christmas getaway  

Elsewhere in the show, the presenters also discussed whether or not the Duke and Duchess had broken royal protocol by thanking Canada for their hospitality during their stay. 

After spending their Christmas in Canadian Christmas hideaway of Vancouver Island, a statement from Buckingham Palace said the royals will meet with Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom at Canada House on Tuesday. 

Matthew understood the couple were thanking the country for their ‘freebie’ holiday, while Trisha felt the couple could have handled the situation in a different way. 

‘It was a private holiday, it was a freebie as I understand it so they’re going round saying thank you very much for that.’, said Matthew. 

Trisha went on: ‘I think it’s nice to say thank you. 

‘I wonder if there’s not an alternative thing, you know if you don’t get invited to your mother-in-laws for Christmas,  and you go to your aunties and say “thank you very much”, publicly on social media. 

‘It’s a way of saying, this is where we felt happy and we felt safe and in kind of brackets, home is not that place at the moment.’