Morrissey has accused Prince William and Prince Harry of hypocrisy after the pair of English Royals took part in a hunting trip in Spain.
Princes William and Harry embarked on the hunting trip a day after launching the United for Wildlife campaign, which seeks to end the illegal hunting of animals.
In a post to his True To You fansite, Morrissey wrote: “One day prior to giving a public plea on behalf of animal welfare (!), Prince William is to be found in Spain (with Prince Harry) shooting and killing as many deer and boar as they possibly can!
“Although William’s speech (no doubt written by his publicity aides at Clarence House) will concentrate on endangered species, William is too thickwit to realize that animals such as tigers and rhino are only driven to near extinction because people who are precisely like himself and his brother have shot them off the map – all in the name of sport and slaughter. Whenever you shoot an animal in the head the outcome is usually the same: death.
“But the rationalists amongst us – who are never allowed to speak, are intelligent enough to realize that endangered species are dying out only because of people like William and Harry, and, for this we can only pray to God that their hunting guns backfire in their faces.”
Morrissey’s autobiography received a lot of attention last year due to a number of controversial admissions made by the former The Smiths frontman in the book, including revealing a heartfelt letter he received from his ex-bandmate Johnny Marr.
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