Chris Rock's criticism of Meghan Markle is spot on

The story of Harry and Meghan has often been portrayed as a clash of values between Britain and America. Between British stiff-upper-lip and Californian emotional incontinence. Between stoicism and the new woke victim politics. But I’m pleased to see that our American cousins – having been lumbered with the transatlantic royal couple since 2020 – are now as fed up with the self-pitying Sussexes as we are.

This has been made abundantly clear by Chris Rock’s new Netflix stand-up special, Selective Outrage. In it, alongside settling scores with Will Smith for *that* slap at the Oscars, Rock takes merciless aim at Meghan, ridiculing her claims of royal mistreatment.

‘They’re so racist, they’re so racist’, Rock says, impersonating our dear duchess in a routine about people who insist on playing the victim. He dismisses much of what she went through as ‘some in-law shit’, before sending up Meghan’s central claim from her now infamous Oprah interview:

‘Oprah, they’re so racist they wanted to know how brown the baby was going to be…That’s not racist, because even black people want to know how brown the baby going to be’, he says.