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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have once again found themselves in the midst of a controversy.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have once again found themselves in the midst of a controversy.

This time, it is over their Remembrance Day pictures, which have been labelled as a distasteful PR stunt by Piers Morgan.

On Sunday, members of the royal family will pay their respects to Britain's fallen soldiers at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph.

The Queen's attendance at the annual event had been uncertain in the wake of her recent health scare.

However, Buckingham Palace confirmed in an official statement yesterday that the Queen will attend this year's wreath-laying service.

Harry and Meghan were absent from the event in the wake of the couple having quit the royal family earlier that year.

The Duke of Sussex, who served in the army for 10 years and undertook two Afghanistan tours, marked Remembrance Sunday in California.

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Harry and Meghan visited the Los Angeles National Cemetery, where they left flowers on the gravesite of two Commonwealth soldiers and placed a wreath at an obelisk.

However, Mr Morgan unleashed a furious tirade at the couple on ITV's Good Morning Britain after they published pictures of their time at the cemetery on social media and made them available to media outlets.

According to Mr Morgan, the pictures were a distasteful PR stunt designed to grab headlines.

He criticized the couple for inviting a photographer, one of their preferred photographers, to take pictures of them at the cemetery, despite their privacy-mindedness.

Mr Morgan said, “They then release a series of images of themselves at a cemetery, laying flowers, and a wreath and paying tribute.

Now, is perfectly entitled as a former member of the armed forces to pay tribute to the armed forces, of course he is.

However, this smacked to me as a really distasteful PR stunt designed to say to the palace you might try and stop me having my right to have a livery servant lay my wreath, but you're not going to stop me grabbing the PR headlines.”

It was reported last year that the Duke of Sussex made a personal request for a wreath to be laid on his behalf at the service in London.

Allegedly, Buckingham Palace denied Harry's request.

Mr Morgan's co-anchor at the time Susanna Reid was quick to jump to the defense of the Sussexes.

She said, “The armed forces mean a lot to .

He served 10 years, he was blocked allegedly from having a wreath in his name placed at the cenotaph.

Why wouldn't he want to show his respect when he has such a strong connection to the military?”

However, Mr Morgan remained unconvinced and criticized the couple for doing it with a photographer in an American cemetery.

Ms Reid argued that if they didn't do it with a photographer, people wouldn't know that they've done it.

Mr Morgan scoffed and added, “Oh please, do me a favor, you could have just issued a statement saying you're thinking of people.”

In other news, the Court of Appeal heard new evidence as part of the appeal by the publisher of the Mail on Sunday appeal against the decision to grant summary judgment to the Duchess of Sussex on her privacy and copyright claims.

The court heard that Meghan and Harry's former communications secretary Jason Gnauf did provide information to the authors of the flattering Finding Freedom biography and the Duchess was forced to apologies for misleading the High Court.

Royal expert Tominey claimed that the revelations have laid bare another uncomfortable truth for the couple.

Ms Tominey said, “Far from being unsupported by the institution, as they described the monarchy to interviewer , the evidence appears to tell a different story.

Rather than being abandoned, it is a damning indictment of the gospel according to Harry and Meghan.

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