Vanessa Feltz defended Prince Andrew after he wore his military uniform at the vigil for Queen Elizabeth II.
The Duke of York was reportedly allowed to wear the attire as ‘special mark of respect’ for his late mother Queen Elizabeth II.
However, recent reports claims that Andrew didn’t ‘lobby for permission’ but the instructions were given from the King’s office.
Sources stressed that the act was not a ‘signal’ that will allow him to ‘return to royal duties.’
During Wednesday’s edition of This Morning, the 60-year-old TV personality felt that Andrew didn’t deserve the backlash during a heartbreaking time.
’Well that just shows two things, one it shows that the King [Charles] is a compassionate person.’

Addressing the highly publicised Virginia Giuffre sexual assault case, presenter Matthew Wright interrupted saying: ‘He’s done some fairly horrendous crimes Vanessa. The compassion surely falls to the victims, that’s all I’m saying.’
‘Sensitive,’ Vanessa replied.
‘This doesn’t exclude or preclude having sympathy on the victims at all. This is an example of a man held up to public gaze during the funeral of his own mother.’
She continued: ‘And also, it’s his brother, so I think it shows a kindness and generosity and compassion and some form of empathy.
‘I don’t think he needs to be punished at that moment at his mother’s funeral and the funeral proceedings. I think the other thing it shows is just how much tittle tattle there is, and how much nonsensical reporting there is, and how many people pretend to know what’s going on behind the scenes of everything and have absolutely no idea.’
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch died on September 8, aged 96, while surrounded by family at Balmoral Castle.
The BBC confirmed that a peak of 19.5 million people tuned into the broadcast of the historic occasion on BBC One, while two million and another 831,000 watched on BBC Two and BBC News Channel respectively.
This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV.