Buckingham Palace, Meghan Markle targeted by UK TV personality

A British TV personality has targeted Buckingham Palace in a recent interview, comparing the royal residence to the chaotic hotel from the classic BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, best known for appearing on the BBC programme Changing Rooms, commented on the palace after his recent visit the iconic building.

Speaking to Heat Magazine, the 61-year-old said, "I was at Buckingham Palace recently and it looks like Fawlty Towers. Once a grand, lovely space, it now has a feeling of a shuffy old golf hotel, which smells of cabbage and sticky carpets".

The interior designer suggested the palace could use one of his trademark transformations. He also expressed views about Prince Harry’s wife Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex.

He suggested Meghan had arrived with fantasy-like expectations that bore little resemblance to the reality of British royal duties.

"I think she felt that she was in The Princess Diaries and mistook joining the British royal family for Genovia," Llewelyn-Bowen said.