Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson has said he emailed an apology to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle over a widely-criticised article he wrote for the paper in December.

In Clarkson’s since-deleted article he described “hating” the Duchess of Sussex and “dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain”.

The column became IPSO’s most-ever complained about article, drawing more than 20,000 formal objections.