Trevor Noah Guests on Meghan Markle's Podcast After Slamming King Charles

Meghan Markle invited Trevor Noah onto her Spotify podcast months after he said it "looks like King Charles isn't the guy" to "shape the monarchy into something that everyone can get behind."

For its final episode, the Duchess of Sussex invited men to be guests on Archetypes for the first time, featuring the outgoing The Daily Show host alongside TV producer Andy Cohen.

Noah sparked a backlash in Britain with outspoken comments about colonialism in the aftermath of Queen Elizabeth II's death and also took a recent swipe at Meghan's father-in-law, King Charles III.

During the podcast, they steered clear of discussing the monarchy and kept to the subject of female empowerment and the role of men in the modern world.

Archetypes began with royal bombshells, including the revelation that Meghan and Prince Harry were forced to work after son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor narrowly avoided being caught up in a house fire.

Since the queen died, there have been no references to the monarchy on the show but this is the second time Meghan has invited on a guest who triggered controversy with comments on the royal family, having previously turned to Jameela Jamil.

Trevor Noah's Controversial Comments on the Royal Family

After the queen died, Noah rebelled against the pressure to mourn during a monologue in his role as host of The Daily Show.

He said: "I'm shocked that people want others who were under the British Empire to share the same level of mourning. Why would they do it?

"People are like 'show some respect, this person died.' And people are like 'So what?' Like everywhere, you know what I mean, all over Africa, all over India, there are so many places where people go, 'but do you know the British Empire did to us.'"

"You can say 'hey, this is my queen, I still love what she represents.'" he said. "That's your queen but don't expect everybody else to now adopt... because basically what you're doing is recolonizing the people and saying 'this is who you support, this is who you cheer for.'

"No, you do your mourning and they'll live their lives. Long live the King."

Noah also took a swipe at Charles after the new king became frustrated with pens during two events marking the succession.

The comedian said: "It's going to take a lot of work to shape the monarchy into something that everyone can get behind.

"But based on his first week in power, looks like King Charles isn't the guy to do it."

"I love how Charles says the pens leak on him all the time," Noah said. "You're literally the King of England, dude. If you don't like the pens, get different pens. I'm not an expert in the monarchy, but I'm pretty sure the hierarchy doesn't go: Prince William, King Charles and then the guy who buys the pens."

He added: "When I was a kid, I thought kings had to pull swords out of stones. This dude can barely pull his d*** out of his own pants?

"You know what this tells you, this story about Charles is one, the royals have been royally spoilt, and two, I can tell you that nobody who works in that palace is African."

Trevor Noah's Interview With Meghan Markle on Archetypes

Meghan and Noah swerved the controversy, however, during their discussion on the podcast, speaking instead about race, gender and his upbringing in South Africa.

He said: "I grew up in a world that, you know, for those who are familiar with it will understand, it was completely defined by race.

"Your race determined where you could go, what you could be. I grew up in a world where that was the status quo and so Black people were at the bottom of the totem and I think something that holds true all over the world is Black women were the most oppressed."

Meghan asked: "What kind of husband do you want to be Trevor?"

Noah replied: "The kind of husband that my wife would want me to be you know, I think even there I think we have so many limiting ideas on what a marriage is.

"That's where I've loved seeing gen Z, as they're called, just play with the ideas of what a relationship is, how a relationship is defined.

"We're so interesting and diverse as people and yet we've created this monolith of what a marriage or a world or a life is and I look at how we've slowly allowed these ideas to be eroded but we don't like to admit it."