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Meghan and Harry have produced a new Netflix series called ‘Live to Lead’.
However TV personality has lashed out at the couple for ‘comparing’ themselves to the late South African president Nelson Mandela. Images via Netflix

‘Insulting & disrespectful’: Outrage over Meghan’s Mandela doccie

Piers Morgan has blasted Meghan and Harry’s Netflix docuseries inspired by Nelson Mandela, accusing them of ‘disrespecting’ the late icon.

Meghan

Meghan and Harry have produced a new Netflix series called ‘Live to Lead’.
However TV personality has lashed out at the couple for ‘comparing’ themselves to the late South African president Nelson Mandela. Images via Netflix

Controversial media personality Piers Morgan has expressed his disdain for former royals, Meghan and Harry, after he claimed they “compared” themselves to the late South African president Nelson Mandela.

The UK TV presenter – a longstanding critic of the couple – lashed out at a trailer of the duo’s new Netflix series, Live To Lead.

The series starts on 31 December and stars several groundbreaking activists and humanitarians like Greta Thunberg, Gloria Steinem, and SA’s own Siya Kolisi.

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DID MEGHAN AND HARRY COMPARE THEMSELVES TO NELSON MANDELA?

According to Piers Morgan, Meghan and Harry “compared” themselves to the world-famous freedom fighter.

He tweeted in response to the trailer: “Comparing themselves to Mandela is so horribly insulting and disrespectful. He was incarcerated in a 6×6 cell for 27 years; they were incarcerated in palatial royal homes for 18 months.”

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However, it appears that Piers didnt watch the trailer as Meghan and Harry quoted the late Nelson Mandela and did not compare themselves to him as he suggested.

Harry is heard saying: “This was inspired by Nelson Mandela, who once said, ‘What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived.”

Meghan then continues, “It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the lives we lead.”

Furthermore, the docuseries was given the green light by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. It also stars two prolific South Africans; Springboks captain and philanthropist Siya Kolisi and anti-apartheid activist and former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Albie Sachs.

IS PIERS MORGAN A HYPOCRITE?

Piers Morgan’s harsh words come just months after he himself compared himself to Nelson Mandela.

In April, the former Good Morning Britain host – who resigned over the backlash of his comments about Meghan last year – likened his quest for “freedom of speech” to Mandela’s fight for freedom.

He said of his new show Piers Morgan Uncensored: “I feel like Nelson Mandela when he came out of prison. It’s like the long walk to free speech freedom.”