Nina Myskow jumped to Prince Harry’s defence on Channel 5 (Image: 5)
Prince Harry had a defender in veteran journalist and broadcaster Nina Myskow during a heated discussion about the senior royal and Meghan Markle. On the Channel 5 daytime show Storm and Alexis, hosted by Storm Huntley with Radzi Chinyanganya standing in for the usual host Alexis Conran, viewers were asked if the royals needed the Sussexes back. Guest Nina claimed the Duke has been “thrown under a bus” by his family as she argued his corner and described Harry’s tome Spare as “a brilliant book”.
“Was he not allowed to tell his life story and his truth? This is his truth. This is somebody who was thrown under the bus by his own family to the press because Camilla appeared on the scene, and then Diana died,” she argued. “And then that was going to be a disaster for Camilla, and she…needed to be presented to the public in a proper light.
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Viewers were asked whether the Royal Family needs Harry and Meghan back (Image: 5)
“So it took Mark Boland, the PR, years and years to get her into a state where the public would accept her, and in doing so, they did deals with the press, and Harry was thrown under the bus. So they gave him stories about Harry when he was a young teenager and…that was all to set Camilla in power,” she claimed.
A caller named Jim, who is based in Greater Manchester, then insisted he didn’t want to see the couple return to the UK. He fumed: “I think their coming back could potentially do more harm than good, especially at a time when I think we all agree that the monarchy is badly in need of rehabilitation.
“I think for me, the problem is that the mixed messages this couple sent. I mean, they went to America again in a blaze of publicity, supposedly to lead a private life and to avoid all the media spotlight. And as far as I’m aware, they’ve been nothing but courting publicity.”
He then claimed Meghan had been “sensationalising all these disclosures”, leading Nina to ask him what he meant. The viewer referred to the infamous Oprah interview and then claimed she had been “taking the mickey out of the Queen” in the couple’s Netflix documentary, where she discussed being “forced to curtsy”. He said: “We’ve all seen that clip, and Harry looked decidedly uncomfortable.”
Prince Harry was defended by a 5 star during a debate (Image: Getty)
Clearly unamused, Nina disagreed, telling him: “I have to say, Meghan wasn’t taking the mickey out of the Queen. She was taking the mickey out of herself. That’s a two-second thing. And you know, this, this seems to be such a tragedy that this whole enmity towards Megan in particular, has kind of catastrophised into this woman being vilified because it’s a double standard,” she said.
It didn’t take long for viewers to flock to social media to have their say on the royal debate. Taking to X – formerly known as Twitter – one user penned: “They can stay there for all I care. I just want them to stop attacking the RF for no reason and hand their titles back.” Another fumed. “I think you mean this is somebody who threw his own family under the bus. Repeatedly. Or have you got total amnesia?” another raged.
A third chimed in with: “These people completely deleting from reality the five years Harry and Meghan made it their job to try to destroy Harry’s family is insane.” A fourth shared: “The tragedy is that the woman is completely tone-deaf to Harry and Meghan’s lies and mocking the Royal Family, especially the late Queen.”
However Nina did have some supporters. One penned: “Meghan is being demonised for standing up as a victim and publicly speaking about what happened to her. Why isn’t there finally an analysis of whether what the press and William, in particular, did to her is true?”