A December column by Jeremy Clarkson, printed in The Sun, included misogynistic comments about Meghan including how he dreams of a day she parades naked on the streets and people throw excrement on her.
"Not only was what he said horrific and hurtful and cruel towards my wife, but it also encourages other people around the UK and around the world — men particularly — to go and think that it's acceptable to treat women that way," he says. "And to use my stepmother's words as well, there is a violent pandemic of violence against women. It's no longer a case of me asking for accountability, but the world is asking for accountability. And the world is asking for some kind of comment from the monarchy, but the silence is deafening, to put it mildly. So I think we've gone from just my personal whatever you want to call it, to way way way bigger than us."