The Sun newspaper on Saturday revealed an apology to Meghan Markle on its entrance web page and mentioned it realised that “with free expression comes responsibility.”
The paper’s assertion adopted a ruling on Friday by the UK press regulator IPSO that an opinion piece concerning the Duchess of Sussex revealed in December 2022 was sexist in its tone.
25,000 folks complained to regulator IPSO after a column by Grand Tour star Jeremy Clarkson appeared in The Sun newspaper, wherein he wrote about Meghan Markle being paraded bare on the street.
IPSO chairman Lord Faulks mentioned the article was “humiliating and degrading towards the duchess.”
The regulator rejected complaints that the article was racist in tone, inaccurate or sought to harass the duchess.
After the article was revealed final 12 months, Prince Harry and Meghan accused the author of “spreading hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny.” The article was faraway from the paper’s web site and Clarkson apologised.
Clarkson had written that he was “dreaming of the day when [Meghan] is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her”.
He later clarified that he had been making a reference to a scene in Game of Thrones, however had omitted to say the title of the TV drama in his haste to fulfill his press deadline.