Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are finding out that life in the United States comes with plenty of scrutiny and criticism, too.
Harry is facing a backlash for recent comments he made on a podcast about the First Amendment, while he and Meghan have found that the more they open up their lives — in various projects from a Spotify podcast, to an Apple TV+ special about mental health, as well as their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in March — the more scrutiny they face.
The Duke of Sussex became a target of conservative criticism this week for his comments to Dax Shepard and Monica Padman on the “Armchair Expert” podcast when discussing the intrusions of the paparazzi while living in California.
“I don’t want to start sort of going down a First Amendment route because that’s a huge subject and one I don’t understand because I’ve only been here for a short period of time, but you can find a loophole in anything and you can capitalize or exploit what’s not said rather than uphold what is said,” he said. “I believe we live in an age now where we’ve got certain elements of the media redefining what privacy means.”
“I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers,” he added later.
Britain has much stricter laws against libel and protecting privacy compared to the First Amendment protections in the U.S. Harry’s comments later struck a nerve.
“Nice that he can say that,” Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted…