Prince Harry's biographer reacted after he and his wife, Meghan Markle, spoke about bullying.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex dropped a clip on the Archewell Foundation website on Thursday. It was filmed at the World Mental Health Day summit in New York City back in October, and they accompanied it with a message supporting parents dealing with grief or who have kids with serious mental health conditions due to their exposure to harmful online content.


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Queen Elizabeth II sits and laughs with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex during a ceremony to open the new Mersey Gateway Bridge on June 14, 2018 in the town of Widnes in Halton, Cheshire, England. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Angela Levin, a royal biographer, commentator and a distinguished journalist who has worked for the Observer, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph, called out the Sussexes for being hypocritical after they spoke about being too concerned about children bullying or cyberbullying. When she joined Nana Akua in a recent episode of GB New's "The Royal Round-Up," Levin claimed the royal couple "bullied" Queen Elizabeth.

"You sort of think, 'Good Heavens!'" she exclaimed. "You know, perhaps, they shouldn't have done bullying Queen Elizabeth when she was so ill and those last few months of her life. Many people have said that they were bullying her for money, for this, for that."


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Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during a reception to mark the 50th Anniversary of the investiture of The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace in London on March 5, 2019. DOMINIC LIPINSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Akua asked, "Really?" Prince Harry's biographer doubled down on her claim, saying, "Yes, yes, yes," before calling Prince Harry and Markle again for their alleged hypocrisy.

"It's this hypocrisy that they have that makes it very difficult to believe them. They said they've got loads of things that they're doing with Netflix, but Netflix said it was in very, very early days, so that means they haven't got an idea exactly the shape of it or the words what anyone's going to say, but it's just, I think, to get them out of the problem they've had with the African problem..."

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Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Prince William, and Kate Middleton watch the RAF 100th anniversary flypast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on July 10, 2018 in London, England. Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Akua acknowledged that the Duke of Sussex was part of the charity African Parks but had no direct involvement. The royal was the president of the organization, known for its conservation efforts across the continent, in 2017.

Levin argued that Prince Harry was told about the issue last May, and he asked the CEO to do something about it, but nothing happened. So, people in the Congo have really suffered.

"I think they usually come up with a load of things that they're going to do, but actually never anything in detail," Levin said.

Mail on Sunday recently published an investigation claiming that the guards employed by African Parks abused the Baka people in the Republic of the Congo. The members of the indigenous group, once known as pygmies living in Odzala-Kokoua National Park, alleged that the guards stopped them from entering the forest where they have "foraged, fished, hunted and found medicines for millennia" by violent means.

Meanwhile, last week, Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria said the Sussexes have upcoming projects with the streaming giant. Bajaria announced that Prince Harry and Markle have a "bunch of development," including a movie, a TV show and a couple of unscripted shows.

Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield said one of their projects could be a documentary about Africa. However, she expressed concern after Prince Harry's organization was involved in the scandal.

"You have to ask yourself if that is in jeopardy today after the African Parks scandal. How can Harry go and promote this glossy documentary about Africa when he is part of a leadership team that is currently being criticized over alleged abuse?" Schofield said.


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