YouTubers who tricked royal 'experts' tell LBC why they did the prank | LBC

Two YouTubers Josh Pieters and Archie Manners tricked four royal pundits into commenting on the Harry and Meghan interview before they'd seen it - they tell James O'Brien why they organised the prank.

The four Royal pundits, which included the Queen's former press secretary Dickie Arbiter, gave interviews to a fake news company formed by YouTubers Josh Pieters and Archie Manners a couple of days before the interview aired.

The commentators were told by the YouTubers that their interviews would be shown immediately after the CBS programme was aired, also giving them a standard on-air fee for their appearances.

"We verified that neither we nor them had seen it before," Mr Manners explained to James O'Brien.

"And that's shaping what I think now is becoming quite a toxic debate."

During the Oprah Winfrey interview, the Duchess of Sussex told the US talk show host that while she was living as a Royal in England, she had suicidal thoughts and simply "didn't want to be alive anymore."

She also said that while she was pregnant a senior member of the family had ‘concerns and conversations’ over the colour of the baby’s skin.

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