UK politician splits with model girlfriend after ‘indefensible’ Meghan Markle remarks
A United Kingdom Independent Party leader announced on Monday he ended his relationship with his model girlfriend after she reportedly made a string of “racist” remarks about Meghan Markle, including saying Prince Harry’s “black American” fiancée will “taint” the Royal family with “her seed.”
In an interview with Sky News on Monday, Henry Bolton, 54, said the remarks made by his former girlfriend Jo Marney, 25, were “indefensible.”
“Jo is utterly distraught. These messages were never meant to be in the public eye. She wasn’t hiding them but they were part of a direct message exchange with some somebody else,” Bolton said.
UKIP Leader Henry Bolton says racist texts sent by his former girlfriend were made “in the heat of the moment” and “not meant for the public eye” but added they were “not defensible in any way” pic.twitter.com/ipxjytuKqp
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 15, 2018
He added, “They were made in sort of heat of the moment in a difficult conversation, in a slightly provocative conversation. But they are not defensible in any way.”
In the text messages, published by The Mail on Sunday, Marney called the duchess-to-be a “dumb little commoner” who is “obsessed with race.” She also accused Markle of paving the way for a “black king” in the British monarchy. Marney also reportedly told her friend that she believed black people were “ugly” and “not [her] thing.”
“This is Britain. Not Africa,” she texted. When…
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