The New York Times newspaper has been condemned for publishing an article hours after the Queen died, saying the murder of her cousin Lord Mountbatten by the IRA was ‘karmic’.
It also claimed that Her Majesty ‘helped obscure a bloody history of decolonisation’ during her reign.
In the favourite newspaper of America’s liberal establishment, Harvard University professor Maya Jasanoff wrote: ‘In a karmic turn, the Irish Republican Army assassinated the queen’s relative Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India (and the architect of Elizabeth’s marriage to his nephew, Prince Philip), in 1979.’
Lord Tebbit – who survived the IRA’s 1984 Brighton bomb attack on the Tory Party conference, which left his wife paralysed – said last night: ‘The New York Times is now well known for being a very anti-British newspaper. This is not a surprise but feels particularly egregious in the wake of the Queen’s death. It’s the sort of scum that rises to the top of dirty water.’ The article has led to a deluge of complaints, with one reader branding it ‘disgusting and shameful’, and another saying: ‘This is uncalled for on the day of the Queen’s death. Really?’
A source who works for the paper told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The New York Times has always been considered America’s paper of record but it has been taken over by the woke brigade.
The source said: ‘When President Biden made his last address to the nation, the networks didn’t cover it live. That goes to show how important the Queen’s death and Charles’s succession is over here.
‘All the networks have seen a leap in ratings because Americans love anything to do with the Royals, and the Queen in particular.’
Publishers including HarperCollins are rushing to publish tribute books honouring the Queen. People magazine has two special issues coming out and is planning a King Charles Coronation special edition.
A source said: ‘The Queen was universally loved and no more so than in America. There is a huge appetite for any tributes to her. People cannot get enough.’
President Biden has announced he will attend the Queen’s funeral.
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