Nigel Farage has ripped into Prince Harry and Meghan for their ‘irrelevant’ environmental campaigns and branded the late Queen Mother an ‘overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker’.
Speaking at a Conservative political conference in Australia over the weekend, the Brexit Party leader ripped into the royal couple’s decision to have only two children and claimed Prince Harry’s popularity had ‘fallen off a cliff’ after meeting Meghan.
Farage launched the scathing attack on the royals during the three-day Sydney Conservative Political Action Conference, where media members were banned.
Addressing a crowd of around 500, he said: ‘Here was Harry, here he was this young, brave, boisterous, all male, getting into trouble, turning up at stag parties inappropriately dressed, drinking too much and causing all sorts of mayhem.
‘And then, a brave British officer who did his bit in Afghanistan. He was the most popular royal of a younger generation that we’ve seen for 100 years. And then he met Meghan Markle, and it’s fallen off a cliff.
Nigel Farage (pictured at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney at the weekend) ripped into Prince Harry and Meghan for their ‘irrelevant’ environmental campaigns
The Brexit Party leader ripped into the couple’s decision to have only two children and claimed Prince Harry’s popularity had ‘fallen off a cliff’ after meeting Meghan. The pair are pictured at The Lion King premiere in London last month
‘We’ve been told in the last week that Meghan and Harry will only have two children… and we’re all completely ignoring, the real problem the Earth faces, and that is the fact the population of the globe is exploding but no one dares talk about it, no one dares deal with it, and whether Prince Harry has two kids is irrelevant given there are now 2.6 billion Chinese and Indians on this Earth.’
Farage went on to praise the Queen for being ‘an amazing, awe-inspiring woman’, telling the conference ‘we’re bloody lucky to have her’. But he was not so kind about her son and mother.
He said: ‘When it comes to her son, when it comes to Charlie Boy and climate change, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
‘Her mother, Her Royal Highness the Queen’s mother was a slightly overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker who lived to 101 years old. All I can say is Charlie Boy is now in his 70s … may the Queen live a very, very long time.’
It is not the first time Farage has taken aim at Charles, having previously described his views on climate change as ‘naive and foolish at best’.
In 2008 he was the sole MEP who refused to applaud a speech on climate change by the prince.
Farage is also said to have branded Prince Harry ‘the prince of wokeness’ during his rant about the Royal Family on Saturday, according to The Guardian.
The former UKIP leader was introduced to the crowd as ‘quite possibly’ the next British PM, despite not being a member of parliament, and failing four times to be elected.
Speaking to a crowd of around 500, Farage described the late Queen Mother an ‘overweight, chain-smoking gin drinker’. She’s pictured at Trooping the Colour in 1991 with Princess Diana
The former UKIP leader also took aim at Prince Charles, who he has previously described as ‘foolish and naive’ when it comes to climate change. He’s pictured at The Highland Games last week in Aberdeen
With the UK’s exit from the EU just weeks away, Farage also used his stage time to tear strips out of the EU and its outgoing president, Jean Claude Juncker – but admitted that he and Mr Juncker shared a rapport.
‘I like Mr Juncker,’ Mr Farage said, ‘He’s the only person I know that makes me feel that I haven’t got a drink problem. I mean there’s having a glass of wine at lunch but crikey!’
The Brexit party leader also called Australia’s former PM Malcolm Turnbull a ‘snake’ as he savaged ‘trendy, metro, liberal elite’ leaders like David Cameron.
Mr Farage told the audience of about 500: ‘Malcolm Turnbull … pretended to be a conservative but actually turned out to be a snake.’
And added, ‘David Cameron was someone who was not conservative at all but a part of the trendy, metro, liberal elite masquerading as a conservative.’
Mr Farage backed Australia’s new PM, Scott Morrison who was elected last summer, telling the audience: ‘You’ve now got someone conservative, mainstream media [and] those in the middle of Melbourne and Sydney may not like him … But out where real people live, they voted for him.’
The former UKIP leader described how a conservative movement had gone global.
‘These remarkable victories have happened for generally conservative-minded movements… there has been a revolt on the right,’ Mr Farage said.
‘Existing parties themselves have either changed, adapted, recognised that actually there are different thoughts and feelings in the middle of their countries that exist at the centre of their capital cities… or there have been new political movements.’
He explained that this was because the parties which purported to be conservative were in fact, ‘nothing of the kind.’
Mr Farage also made clear the intent of the Brexit Party should Britain’s new PM fail to deliver on a timely withdrawal from the EU.
‘Boris may not be 100 per cent nailed on to full independence for the United Kingdom but there is a new political reality,’ Mr Farage said, ‘What the Brexit Party have done is to completely reset the political agenda in Britain.
The outgoing president of the European commission is famously indulgent
‘The conservative government now know that if we we don’t leave on the 31st of October, they as a political party, are finished.’
But Mr Farage conceded that when he was in Melbourne he’d thought ‘the greenies had taken over’ as 600 protesters rallied against him.
And protesters followed his movements in Sydney too. Footage from outside the Rydges Hotel showed around 30 demonstrators engaged in scuffles on the street.
At one point a man is doused in coffee as police officers hauled people away from the scene.
Tony Abott, the Australian PM replaced by Mr Turnbull in 2015, was also at CPAC on its first day on Friday.
He described how Australia had ‘lost its anchor posts’ and said, ‘they used to be anchored in the Christian faith. Faith is a gift, some people have, some people don’t.’
Mr Abott tore into legislation to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales.
Yesterday, controversial activist Raheem Kassam spoke at the conference about Australia’s Labor party putting his life in danger when it tried to ban him from the country for criticising Islam.