French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has come under fire for its most recent front cover, which shows a cartoon of Queen Elizabeth kneeling on the neck of Meghan Markle, an apparent recreation of George Floyd’s death.
The publication has sparked outrage just days after the Duchess of Sussex, and her husband, Prince Harry, told US interviewer Oprah Winfrey of apparent racism within the royal family. However, they did not criticise the Queen.
Alongside the caricature, a headline reads, “Why Meghan left Buckingham”, with the Duchess of Sussex replying – from underneath the Queen’s knee – “because I couldn’t breathe anymore”.
The image appears to be replicating the horrifying death of George Floyd, a balck man, who died last year after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes, despite Floyd’s desperate pleas for help crying, ‘I can’t breathe’. This also sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests around the world to…