Jameela Jamil gushes over Meghan Markle’s bond with ‘ally’ Prince Harry on Archetypes 

Jameela Jamil gushed over Meghan Markle‘s bond with ‘ally’ Prince Harry and hailed the Duchess as ‘kind and normal’ during an appearance on her podcast Archetypes.

The presenter and actress appeared on the ninth episode of the Duchess’ show which was titled ‘The Audacity of the Activist with Jameela Jamil and Shohreh Aghdashloo’.

In the episode, Jameela compared her relationship with James Blake to Meghan’s marriage to Prince Harry, saying: ‘[James’] is just an incredible human, an incredible friend and I don’t think I could have withstood all this without him. I know you have a very similar dynamic with Harry. It is a really sweet dynamic of you two.’

Jamil was one of Meghan’s 15 Forces For Change in her September 2019 guest-edited Vogue issue and it was then that the pair became friends. 

In 2020, a source claimed Jameela and her musician boyfriend James met at the couple’s sprawling California mansion just one day after she dubbed Prince Andrew a pedophile on Twitter.

In the episode, after Meghan asked how James supported Jameela, saying: ‘Maybe he just likes that I am completely myself and I think he really enjoys the fact that I’m not repressed in any way.

‘Therefore, I don’t have anywhere that I need to kind of like let off that steam.

‘I don’t hold in any toxicity. I get everything off my chest, so, you know, mixed results.’

Jameela went on: ‘He’s incredibly supportive of me and he’s been a big encourager of me to learn how to, you know, fight back and speak my mind and understand my worth and he’s just a great ally.’

‘He’s a great, he’s just a great source of strength and comfort and someone who can take my phone away because he’s six foot seven, I can’t reach it when he’s holding it up.

‘You know, if I need my phone to be taken away, he’s there. he understands me and he’s just an incredible human, an incredible friend and and I don’t think I could have withstood all this without him.’

She went on to compare the relationship with Harry and Meghan, adding: ‘It was very nice for me to see that you have that in your home.

‘Because you need it because it’s just it’s an unfathomable amount of sh** that you take Megan. I can’t believe it.’

Meanwhile Jameela went on to say she had ‘fought back on behalf of Meghan’, adding: ‘I was so outraged. With the twisting of this, very normal, very kind, very civilized woman that demonization. It just shows how afraid they are of you.’

She went on to suggest she would edit the clip from the podcast, but added: ‘I’m sure maybe you can’t keep this in or whatever, but the treatment of you and, I’m so sorry, you’ve had to withstand, it has re-highlighted for us there is intense unkindness and bigotry and misogyny of our media.

‘I think and I hope and I feel faith that that tides are changing because so many of us are fighting back.’

Elsewhere, she spent some time thanking Meghan for supporting her, and suggested the Duchess had reached out to her privately at different times over the years. 

She added: ‘I also just want to thank you in a way that, you know, I probably didn’t get to at the time but during some of my hardest moments where I’m being the most maligned and harmed by the media.

‘And sometimes also by the public you have been such a sobering voice of unwavering support to me.

‘And you, people don’t know, frequently reach out to women who are having a very very hard time privately.

‘You reach out to us. You don’t do it publicly.

You don’t come to get any glory, but you privately reach out to us in our most lonely and desperate moments.

‘And we need more of that in the world.’

After Meghan featured Jameela in her issue of Vogue, The Good Place star  is believed to have traveled to the Sussex’s sprawling nine-bedroom and 16-bathroom mansion in Montecito with her boyfriend singer-songwriter James.

The visit came a day after Jameela said the Duke of York – Prince Harry’s uncle – was the Firm’s ‘alleged resident pedo’ and claimed he was ‘besties with a sex trafficker’ in a Twitter rant on August 22 2020. 

A source told The Sun: ‘Jameela and James drove up to Montecito from Los Angeles and spent time with Meghan and Harry.

‘They also had a stroll on the beach but Meghan and Harry didn’t venture out with them.’

Jamil and Blake were pictured taking a stroll on a beach in Montecito – just a short distance away from Meghan and Harry’s new home – on August 22, one day prior to their supposed visit and the same day as the tweet.

Jamil stood up for Meghan amid claims the Suits actress went against royal family rules by being political.

The former T4 star wrote: ‘I *THINK* they may be more embarrassed by their alleged resident pedo Andrew who was besties with a sex trafficker, than an American supporting women voting in her own country, and loosely referencing the importance of general democracy which is being threatened here currently.’

A Twitter user replied to Jamil’s post by saying: ‘Plus didn’t they step back from the monarchy? Why does everyone wanna hate her so much, its so sad and disgusting.’

Jamil responded: ‘Because she’s not white. And because she’s smart, strong, opinionated, rebellious, beautiful, happy and has everything they never will.

‘She’s a terrifying threat to patriarchy because she doesn’t fit the stereotype for women. They discredit her because they can’t kill her.’

Virginia Roberts – now known as Virginia Giuffre – says she was trafficked by pedophile financier Epstein and alleges the duke had sex with her on three separate occasions, including when she was 17.

Andrew has categorically denied he has had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Giuffre.