Donald Trump today implied Meghan Markle needs to toughen up to deal with 'unfair' Press coverage against her during a live radio interview with Nigel Farage.

The US President said he had watched footage from a recent documentary in which the Duchess of Sussex complained about her treatment from the tabloids and realised she had taken the criticism 'very personally'.

He told LBC: 'I guess you've got to be a little bit different than that but she takes it very personally and I can understand it. But I don't know her.'

Mr Trump's comments may have surprised some listeners given his own sensitivity towards media criticism. On Twitter, the President regularly brands the Press 'fake news media' and 'the enemy of the people' in response to negative reports.

He also recently banned the New York Times and Washington Post from federal buildings after repeatedly attacking them in public following critical stories.

The US President said he had watched interviews of the Duchess of Sussex complaining about her treatment from the tabloids and saw she had taken the criticism 'very personally'

Mr Trump - seen on the South Lawn of the White House on October 25 - admitted he 'understood' her personal reaction to the coverage

During his interview, Mr Trump also discussed his 'wonderful' visit to the UK in June and said he had enjoyed meeting Prince Harry, who he called 'great', before heaping praise on the Queen.

Referring to Prince Harry, Mr Trump said: 'I met him when I was over at that incredible... we had something that was so incredible recently. What that was five months ago, time flies.

'He's a great young man. The whole family is terrific, it's a great family..'

Mr Trump called the Queen 'an incredible woman' and described sitting next to her during a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.

'I sat next to her, and she was smiling and having a good time and I was smiling and having a good time. It was really a great evening, and I was told that she enjoyed it and I can tell you I enjoyed it.'

He added: 'She's a great woman. I say that very seldom. I don't say that often, I have to say, about anybody.

'But she is really very outstanding, and Prince Charles so good, so good. He loves the environment. We had a great time.'

The President is due to return to the UK for a NATO summit in December.

Mr Trump used the interview to say Jeremy Corbyn would be 'so bad' for the UK while hailing Boris Johnson as 'the exact right guy for the times'.

He also said if Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage teamed up with Mr Johnson they would be an 'unstoppable force'.

The President waded into British domestic affairs by voicing his opinion ahead of the election - a move that has been described by Mr Corbyn as interference.

'Corbyn would be so bad for your country, he'd be so bad, he'd take you on such a bad way. He'd take you into such bad places,' Mr Trump said.

The president said he and Mr Johnson have a 'great friendship', adding that they have 'a lot of the same things going'.

He told Mr Farage: 'When you are the president of the United States you have great relationships with many of the leaders, including Boris, he's a fantastic man, and I think he's the exact right guy for the times.'

Mr Trump called Prince Harry (pictured at the launch of the Invictus Games in east London) 'a great young man'

The US President was speaking to Nigel Farage, who has his own show on the LBC radio station

In the wide-ranging interview, Mr Trump also criticised Mr Johnson's Brexit deal, claiming it hinders trade with the US.

'We want to do trade with UK and they want to do trade with us,' he said.

'To be honest with you... this deal... under certain aspects of the deal... you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't trade.

'We can't make a trade deal with the UK because I think we can do many times the numbers that we're doing right now and certainly much bigger numbers than you are doing under the European Union.'

Mr Trump dismissed Mr Corbyn's warnings that the NHS will be up for grabs for the US after Brexit, suggesting that the Labour leader started the idea.

The president told LBC: 'It's so ridiculous. I think Corbyn put that out there.'

He added: 'It's not for us to have anything to do with your health care system. No, we're just talking about trade.'

Mr Trump used the interview to say Jeremy Corbyn would be 'so bad' for the UK while hailing Boris Johnson as 'the exact right guy for the times'

Mr Corbyn responded on Twitter, saying: 'Donald Trump is trying to interfere in Britain's election to get his friend Boris Johnson elected.

'It was Trump who said in June the NHS is 'on the table'. And he knows if Labour wins US corporations won't get their hands on it.'

The President also discussed the case of British teenager Harry Dunn, who was run down and killed by a car allegedly driven by Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US spy.

Mr Trump said he set up the meeting 'for Boris' and was disappointed when Mr Dunn's parents decided not to go ahead with it.

Labour MP Holly Lynch reveals that she and Meghan Markle spoke about loneliness during a 'touching' phone call to thank her for writing an open letter of support signed by 72 female politicians

By Jessica Rach and Terri-Ann Williams for MailOnline

Labour MP Holly Lynch has revealed how she discussed the public eye being 'a lonely place for women' during a phone call with Meghan Markle this week.

Meghan personally phoned Ms Lynch, MP for Halifax in West Yorkshire, to thank her for writing an open letter that 72 female politicians signed to support her over negative coverage of the Duchess.

The MP admitted she was 'touched' to hear from her, and told how Meghan, 38, was remaining positive and channeling the negative energy into turning attitudes around.

Politicians including Diane Abbott and Jess Phillips wrote to the Duchess of Sussex, saying they 'stand with' her and relate to her experience.

The letter, addressed to Meghan Markle (above) said that the MPs stood with her on her stance against the media

Speaking to Harper's Bazaar, the MP said: 'I was moved to hear from her.

'She wanted to say that she appreciated the gesture and to pass on her thanks to all the women who have signed.

'We spoke about how being a women in the public eye it can sometimes feel like a lonely place to be but there's actually a lot of us that feel this way and when we work together we can be a real force for good, bringing about the changes that we want to see.'

Ms Lynch shared her campaign on Twitter yesterday, before speaking to ITV about the open letter.

She said: 'She was calling to thank myself and other women MP for standing with her and sending the open letter to say that we, as women in public office, absolutely understand what she is going through.

'Although in very different public roles, we stand with her in solidarity to say that we shouldn't be tearing down women in public life through the press or otherwise, so she was pleased to have seen that letter.'

Meghan personally phoned Ms Lynch, MP for Halifax in West Yorkshire, pictured, to thank her for writing an open letter that 72 female politicians signed to support her over negative coverage of the Duchess

Politicians including Diane Abbott and Jess Phillips wrote to the Duchess of Sussex , saying they 'stand with' her and relate to her experience

Halifax MP Holly Lynch tweeted out the letter to her followers yesterday

She added that she was 'very concerned' about 'incredibly sexist' coverage of the Duchess.

'She is here, she has married our prince, they got a young son, we want to welcome her to our society and I am afraid not all of the articles in our national press reflect that, and it's time that stops,' she said.

Others who also put their name to the letter included Liberal Democrat MP Angela Smith and Conservative MP Tracey Crouch.

The letter said that 'as women MPs of all political persuasions' the group wanted to 'stand against' stories they said were 'often distasteful and misleading' in a number of national newspapers across the UK.

It continued: 'On occasions, stories and headlines have represented an invasion of your privacy and have sought to cast aspersions about your character, without any good reason as far as we can see.

'Even more concerning still, we are calling out what can only be described as outdated, colonial undertones to some of these stories.

'As women members of Parliament from all backgrounds, we stand with you in saying it cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.'

The letter addressed that even though the women held different lives in the public eye, that they shared an understanding of the 'abuse and intimidation' which is used as a means of 'disparaging women in public office' from getting on with their work.

'We expect the national media to have the integrity to know when a story is in the national interest, and when it is seeking to tear a woman down for no apparent reason.

Tracey Crouch (left) and Stella Creasy (right) also signed the letter from female MPs

'You have our assurances that we stand with you in solidarity on this.

'We will use the means at our disposal to ensure that our press accept your right to privacy and show respect, and that their stories reflect the truth.'

The letter from MPs comes after Prince Harry addressed being in the spotlight during his recent ITV documentary.

Ms Lynch (pictured) wrote a letter saying she and 71 other female MPs stand with Meghan

Harry described the way he deals with the pressures of his life as being a matter of 'constant management', adding: 'I thought I was out of the woods and then suddenly it all came back, and this is something that I have to manage.

'Part of this job, and part of any job, like everybody, is putting on a brave face and turning a cheek to a lot of the stuff, but again, for me and again for my wife, of course there is a lot of stuff that hurts, especially when the majority of it is untrue.

'But all we need to do is focus on being real, and focus on being the people that we are, and standing up for what we believe in.

He added: 'I will not be bullied into playing a game that killed my mum.'

During the documentary he also highlighted the behaviour of the press and said it played a role in the public scrutiny that he and wife Meghan Markle have faced.

In his statement, Prince Harry said he and Meghan believed in 'media freedom and objective, truthful reporting' as a 'cornerstone of democracy'.

However, he added that his wife had become a 'victim' of the tabloid press in a campaign he claimed had 'escalated ruthlessly'.

He also said that there was a 'human cost' to such articles being published and said his wife was the 'same person now as she was on our wedding day'.

The letter from MPs comes after Prince Harry addressed being in the spotlight during his recent ITV documentary. Ms Lynch MP (pictured) wrote a letter saying she and 71 other female MPs stand with Meghan Harry described the way he deals with the pressures of his life as being a matter of 'constant management'

During the honest documentary, the Duchess of Sussex's documentary following the royal couple's first official engagement in Africa this year.

Speaking to Mr Bradby, who asked how she was adapting to the pressures of being a royal, the Duchess admitted she was 'not okay'.

She said: 'Look, any woman especially when they are pregnant you're really vulnerable and so that was made really challenging, and then when you have a new born, you know...

'And especially as a woman, it's a lot. So you add this on top of just trying to be a new mum or trying to be a newlywed.'

Earlier this month Harry launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday over a claim that the paper unlawfully published one of her private letters to her father Thomas.