Fr Brendan Kilcoyne referred to one scene from the programme in which Meghan talks to a beekeeper, and claimed the bees were “mortified” by their conversation, which he sarcastically described as “riveting”.
He said the British royal family had a “narrow escape” when she and Harry cut ties, stating that it didn’t deserve to be connected to “somebody who is clearly operating at such a shallow level”.
“The great line that has given us so many English kings and queens – from an Irish Catholic point of view, perhaps of varying attractiveness – it does not deserve this. It had a narrow escape,” said Fr Kilcoyne.
“There must be some sort of instinctive, almost muscular spasm by which monarchy still has a survival instinct, that manages to expel a member who is a direct threat.
“Meghan Markle is Nemesis. She is the anti-monarchy. Thank God they’re out there in Montecito, herself and her poor, deluded noggins of a husband,” he added.
“Say what you like about the husband and others – he is a former and distinguished soldier, as are his uncles, as was his father. They do not deserve to be connected like this to somebody who is clearly operating at such a shallow level.”
Speaking on his podcast, The Brendan Option, Fr Kilcoyne recommended that his followers watch the documentary, With Love, Meghan, suggesting that they could “do it for Lent” and “offer it up”.
“It’s cat, it’s cat in the Irish sense, meaning it’s bloody awful. But it’s so cat, it’s actually quite good. It’s enjoyable,” he said.
He suggested that people should “drink in the mediocrity and savour the narrow escape that one of the most distinguished royal lines in the world has just had”.
Fr Kilcoyne, who is the parish priest in Balla, Co Mayo, hosts a weekly podcast on YouTube and a number of other platforms.