Meghan makes so much drama then rewrites history, says ‘Uncle G’
THE Duchess of Sussex “creates so much drama” that does not exist and then uses it to “rewrite history”, Gary Goldsmith has suggested.
The Princess of Wales’s uncle criticised Meghan as he chatted with his fellow Celebrity Big Brother housemates on the ITV1 show.
The 58-year-old businessman reserved some of his wrath for Prince Harry, saying: “I mean, you can’t throw your family under the bus in such a dramatic style, then write books about it and expect to be invited round for Christmas.”
By contrast, Mr Goldsmith hailed both his niece and Prince William as “the saviour of the Royal family”.
The tattooed father of one, known to the Princess as Uncle G, wasted no time in exploiting his royal links after making an energetic entrance into the house on Monday evening.
“So I have an opinion that Harry was really, really really loved and when they were a threesome, so Kate, William and Harry they got really comfortable together,” he told other contestants including television personalities Sharon Osborne and Louis Walsh.
“Then there’s an extra dynamic that comes in, puts a stick in the spokes and creates so much drama that I don’t genuinely think is there, and rewrites the history, saying they’re unhappy with us and I just don’t think that’s fair.”
His comment appears to refer to the fact that the Duke’s relationship with members of the Royal family began to disintegrate when he met Meghan.
After the couple left the UK, they gave a series of television interviews, took part in a Netflix documentary series and, in Harry’s case, published a memoir that blindsided the Royal family.
Despite multiple betrayals, the couple let it be known they would have welcomed an invitation to spend Christmas with the royals at Sandringham last year.
The Prince and Princess have never publicly reacted to the volley of criticism aimed at them by the Sussexes. Kensington Palace sources have insisted that Mr Goldsmith is not a member of the couple’s trusted inner circle and would therefore not be spilling any family secrets. Mr Goldsmith is said to have been “read the riot act” by Mrs Middleton.
However, the Royal family is braced for him to unleash his own colourful opinions over the course of the threeweek series, which the businessman acknowledged that the Princess would likely be watching from behind a sofa.
Mr Goldsmith claimed that the Duke of Sussex would one day have to return to the UK.
“At some point he’s going to have to come back and be part of the gang,” he said. “I think he might need to. We’re a very forgiving nation. The meanest thing I said was that he wouldn’t make my pub team.” He added that the King was doing “a spectacular job”.
The businessman is not thought to have had any contact with Kensington Palace about his Big Brother appearance, either to ask permission to take part or to thrash out the terms of his deal.
In 2009, he was filmed by undercover reporters at his Ibiza villa, La Maison de Bang Bang, apparently cutting up cocaine on the kitchen worktop and in 2017, he narrowly avoided jail after being convicted of attacking his wife during a drunken street row.