An ‘extremely offensive’ card game which mocks the late Queen and Prince Philip has been spotted in Prince Harry’s room in a clip from the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary.
In a photo featured in the six-part series, Cards Against Humanity can be seen on the floor next to the Duke as he poses in his military uniform inside Nottingham Cottage.
The point of the game is to choose an answer to a ‘fill-in-the-blank’ card. The winner of each round is the person who has chosen the most shocking and offensive answer card.
The game, which brands itself a ‘party game for horrible people’, references everything from the Madeleine McCann case and the Holocaust to the Princess of Wales and Michael Jackson.
In the Netflix series Harry can be seen standing in his military uniform in Nottingham Cottage, with what appears to be a box for Cards Against Humanity on the floor next to a dressing table
An ‘extremely offensive’ card game which mocks the late Queen and Prince Philip has been spotted in Prince Harry’s room in a clip from the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary. (Pictured: Harry with the Queen in 2018)
There is no suggestion that the game in the picture belongs to Harry or Meghan or that they have played it. MailOnline has contacted representatives for the Sussexes for comment.
Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty Magazine, told the Sun: ‘This game is sick. It is ridiculous and utterly tasteless whether you are a monarchist or not.’
One viewer said they ‘could not believe it’ when they saw the game’s black box packaging, because it ‘mocks the Queen and other members of the Royal Family.’
Pictured: The Cards Against Humanity card game, which was spotted in Harry’s room in the Harry & Meghan Netflix documentary
They added: ‘I appreciate it might not be their game but it’s an amazing irony when you consider it appears on a program where they’re talking about being offended… I was disgusted to see it included on their program.’
The game was in view in the episode.
Since its creation in 2011, Cards Against Humanity has been criticized by many groups for its ‘sick’ content.
A former spokesman for Madeleine McCann’s parents branded the game ‘deeply disturbing’ for referencing the case of the missing girl, who disappeared from Portugal in 2007.
One viewer said they ‘could not believe it’ when they saw the game’s black box packaging, because it ‘mocks the Queen and other members of the Royal Family.’ (Pictured: One of the game’s answer cards)
The Hillsborough disaster, which claimed 97 lives, is also mocked by the game, with a family support group accusing its creators of having ‘warped minds’.
In the game, one player asks a question from a black card and everyone else answers with their ‘funniest’ white card. It is the nature of the questions and answers on the cards, that make the game so controversial.
Each black card is either a question, or a phrase where the key words have been left as blank. At first they might seem innocuous, such as: ‘What’s that smell?’ However, another card reads: ‘In Michael Jackson’s final moments he thought about…’
The players then respond from the selection of answers from white cards they have in their hand. These include ‘Madeleine McCann’, ‘Jade Goody’s cancerous remains’ and ‘Hillsborough’.
One card reads ‘Queen Elizabeth’s immaculate a***’ and another says: ‘Leaked footage of Kate Middleton’s colonoscopy.’
Other cards include ‘Auschwitz’, ‘Kids with bum cancer’ and ‘Chunks of dead prostitute’. The person who creates the ‘funniest’ or most offensive answer wins a point.
However, the creators have remained unapologetic over the years.
In 2014, Eli Halpern, 27 at the time and project leader of the British version, said: ‘One card is ‘Queen Elizabeth’s immaculate a***’. That was our mission statement, to take the most sacred thing in the UK and tarnish it.
‘The British have a different humor from Americans. We sent a survey out on the internet with a list of the US cards and asked people to cross out the ones they didn’t understand. Then I had meetings in pubs to discuss the cards we should include in the British version.
‘Hillsborough seemed fair game because it was historic. When we were testing that card we never hit a raw nerve or got any complaints.’
Cards Against Humanity was invented by eight childhood friends from Chicago in 2009. Fellow inventor Ben Hantoot said: ‘We had no idea how it would take off. This was a game we made up on New Year’s Eve to entertain ourselves.’