Piers Morgan described Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as “greedy little grifters who ditched royal duty” as he said they should not be given a human rights award in the name of Robert F. Kennedy.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are due to attend the Ripple of Hope gala where they will be named among this year’s laureates on December 6, in New York City.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights named the couple for what its president, Kerry Kennedy, described as their “willingness to speak up and change the narrative on racial justice.”

However, the move has angered some commentators who did not feel the recognition was justified.

Morgan wrote in his column for The Sun: “It’s disgusting, and shame on Kerry Kennedy for promoting the farcical notion that Meghan and Harry are any kind of human rights heroes. They’re not. They’re selfish money-grabbing hypocrites intent on causing as much damage to the Monarchy as they can whilst simultaneously cashing in on their royal status.”

“It’s hard to imagine two less heroic public figures in modern history,” he wrote, “than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a pair of greedy little grifters who ditched royal duty, and in Harry’s case his country, to fleece their titles…