Mystery over Meghan Markle's Nelson Mandela claims as actor insists he has NEVER met the Duchess.

 

An acclaimed actor and pal of Nelson Mandela nowadays instructed MailOnline he is 'baffled' with the aid of the Duchess of Sussex's suggestion that his usa had 'rejoiced' when she married Prince Harry - and published he has in no way met her despite claiming to be the solely South African member of the solid in Disney’s current remake of The Lion King.

Dr John Kani believes the Duchess of Sussex has made 'a fake pas' after she used a US magazine interview to imply her 2018 royal wedding sparked celebrations in South Africa reminiscent of the release of his friend Madiba, the legendary anti-apartheid leader.

He stated Mr Mandela's stroll to freedom after 27 years used to be a 'landmark moment' while her marriage to Prince Harry was 'no large deal' in South Africa, adding that the two activities 'cannot be spoken in the same breath’ and ‘you can't surely say the place you have been when Meghan married Harry’.

The bombshell interview in The Cut counseled Meghan had been informed the contrary with the aid of a male South African forged member at the London premiere of the Lion King stay action film held in 2019. It suggested the Duchess as saying: 'He seemed at me, and he’s simply like light. He said, "I just want you to know: When you married into this family, we had a good time in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison".'

But Dr Kani, a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company who voiced the mandrill shaman Rafiki, told MailOnline that he was once the only South African in the Disney movie, has in no way met Meghan and was once not at the UK premiere.

He stated the solely other South African who used to be worried was once Lebo M, a composer who collectively with Hans Zimmer was once accountable for the tune for The Lion King. But Lebo M was now not in the cast.

Sitting under a portrait of his pal Mr Mandela at his Johannesburg home, he said: 'I have in no way met Meghan Markle. This seems like some thing of a fake pas by using her. I have I have in no way met the Duchess at all. I am the solely South African member of the forged and I did not attend the premiere in London.

'I went to Hollywood as we opened there and from there I had to go immediately to Paris the place I was capturing a film sequel, so I could not dangle around. The solely South African was once me playing Rafiki. But I did not go to the opening in Leicester Square as I didn't have the time to do that. It simply may be a mis-remembering on her side.

'It is baffling me. I am the only South African in the cast. I play Rafiki, Seth Rogen plays Pumbaa, Donald Glover performs Simba and Beyonce performs Nala.'

The actor insisted that Harry and Meghan's nuptials have been 'no massive deal' in his country, adding: 'I cannot even tell you now what month she married or what year'.

Dr Kani said he did now not trust that the humans of South Africa celebrated Meghan's marriage to Prince Harry on the scale that greeted the launch of anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela as claimed by using her.

He said: 'In my memory, nobody would have acknowledged when she received married, when or what. We had no South African link to the wedding or to her marrying Harry.'

He said: 'I am certainly amazed by means of this. For me it is a non-event, the entire thing'.

MailOnline has approached the Sussexes and Disney about his claims. The Cut declined to comment.

The world stopped in February 11 1990. The whole us of a and most of the people born in the seventies didn't understand what Mr Mandela appeared like.

'When the gates of Pollsmoor (Prison) opened, the whole South African nation, the whole African continent and the world have been glued.

'We only realised that he (Mr Mandela) used to be the one strolling next to Winnie (his wife of the time) when he raised his hand and we said "Oh, it really is him" because none of us had seen Mr Mandela considering 1964'.

'That was a world event. Surely Miss Meghan or something marrying into royalty cannot in any way be spoken in the equal breath or even the equal sentence as that moment.

'It lives in our recollections invariably to the world. It is a form of "Where were you when JFK was shot...where had been you when Nelson Mandela used to be released"?

'You cannot clearly say the place you were when Meghan married Harry.

'I am careworn about this. She is an necessary person in her very own life.

'But there are a number opinions all over the world about them severing their ties with the Royal Family and Harry no longer being in a position to serve and do his regular obligations and their moving to America and the interviews with Oprah Winfrey and all that. We've been following that story with pastime really, but that is all.

Tags: Queen, Prince Charles, Camilla, Prince Louis, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Meghan, Lilibet

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