Farage derides Queen Mum, Charles and Harry during Australia conference speech

NIGEL Farage said the Queen Mother was an “overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker” in a series of incendiary remarks about members of the royal family, it has been claimed.

The Brexit Party leader — in a speech in Australia to Sydney’s Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday — reportedly ridiculed comments by the Duke of Sussex that he and wife Meghan planned to have a “maximum” of two children for the sake of the planet.

And Mr Farage — who described the Queen as an “amazing, awe-inspiring woman” — said he hoped she would live a “very, very long time” to stop the Prince of Wales becoming king.

Media were not present at the event, but The Guardian newspaper said it had heard a recording of part of Mr Farage’s speech.

“When it comes to her son, when it comes to Charlie Boy and climate change, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... all I can say is Charlie Boy is now in his 70s... may the Queen live a very, very

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long time,” he reportedly said. In reply to a question about women choosing not to have children due to climate change, he reportedly said, in reference to the Sussexes two-child rule: “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.

“Terrifying! Here was Harry ... the most popular royal of a younger generation ... and then he met Meghan Markle, and it’s fallen off a cliff.”