Daily Mail Owner Slams CBS Over Alleged 'Doctored' Content In Meghan-Harry Interview

The owner of U.K. tabloid Daily Mail has accused CBS of doctoring tabloid images shown during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey and is calling for their removal.

In a letter to ViacomCBS, Associated Newspapers wrote that a montage in the CBS special claiming to show headlines from the British newspapers should be removed from repeat broadcasts as they were "inaccurate, misleading and divisive" content. The company claimed the images had been doctored or presented as headlines when they were not.

"Many of the headlines have been either taken out of context or deliberately edited and displayed as supporting evidence for the program’s claim that the Duchess of Sussex was subjected to racist coverage by the British press. This editing was not made apparent to viewers and, as a result, this section of the program is both seriously inaccurate and misleading," Associated Newspapers' group legal director Elizabeth Hartley said in a statement to Deadline.

"I should be grateful for your urgent confirmation that the offending content will be removed from the programme currently being made available to the public. We also understand that a further broadcast is being planned tonight. The montage should therefore be deleted prior to that broadcast," the statement continued.

Associated Newspapers listed three examples, including one image with a headline that read: "Meghan’s seed will taint our Royal Family."

The company said that it was doctored because the original headline was: "'Meghan’s seed will taint our Royal Family’: UKIP chief’s glamour model lover, 25, is suspended from the party over racist texts about Prince Harry’s wife-to-be."

It stressed the importance of the part removed because the report was about a member of the U.K. political party UKIP getting suspended over her racist texts about Markle.

"It is a thoroughly dishonest misrepresentation of a newspaper headline and article which was the opposite of racist. No one viewing the program would have understood this from the montage," Hartley added.

Prince Harry and Markle's tell-all interview also led to longtime critic Piers Morgan losing his job on "Good Morning Britain." Morgan said he was asked to apologize to Markle after saying he did not believe the duchess' statement about her mental health and was forced to quit the show after he refused to do so.