The Sun’s Dan Wootton Calls Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s Media Fight ‘Pathetic’

Dan Wootton of The Sun called Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s media fight “pathetic.”

Just recently, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex sent an email to four major tabloids in the U.K. informing them that they won’t be working with them again. Prince Harry and Markle said that they will no longer collaborate and will have zero engagement with Daily Mail, Express, Mirror and The Sun.

Many considered the move as a continuation of the couple’s war against the press. Wootton, executive editor of The Sun, called it “pathetic.”

According to Wootton, the people are no longer interested in the royal couple who stepped back from their duties back in January. He also added that the pair banned the outlets because they were the ones reporting the truth about them.

“No one cared about their announcement of their new Archewell Foundation (it just wasn’t the time),” he wrote.

Wootton added that the media was focused on what was really important, reporting about the brutal force of coronavirus and the struggles the NHS is facing. He added that Prince Harry’s “obsession with hating the press comes before anything else.”

“If Harry had any sense he would stop picking pathetic fights with the British media simply to try and prove a petty point that the whole world has moved on from to deal with something that really matters: Life and death,“ Wootton wrote.

“But, for the record, the reason Harry and Meghan have decided to institute some sort of ban on the British tabloids is because they are the very newspapers reporting the truth about their behind-the-scenes fallout with the Royal Family.”

In October, Prince Harry and Markle sued Mail On Sunday, The Sun and The Mirror. Wootton reacted to the duke’s war against the press at the time and called it “unhinged.”

Meanwhile, Prince Harry and Markle announced the name of their new nonprofit organization earlier this month. However, many questioned the timing because it happened while Boris Johnson was moved into the intensive care due to the coronavirus. Royal commentator Phil Dampier said the move had an “appalling timing.”