LONDON (Reuters) – Meghan, the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, slammed the British media on Saturday over reports that letters exchanged with King Charles played a role in her decision not to attend his coronation in her latest confrontation with the press.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Meghan has written to the current monarch to express her concerns about unconscious bias in the royal family. She said the letter was sent after her comments in 2021 in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that the family had raised concerns about how dark their son’s skin was.
She stated that the Duchess of Sussex did not feel that she had received a satisfactory response to her concerns.
A spokesperson for Meghan said: “The Duchess of Sussex is about her life at the moment, not considering correspondence from two years ago in relation to conversations from four years ago.”
“Any suggestion otherwise is wrong and frankly laughable. We encourage the popular media and various royal correspondents to stop the exhausting circus they are creating on their own.”
Prince Harry will attend the coronation ceremony next month without Meghan, who will remain in California with the couple’s two young children. The eldest, Archie, turns four on the same day.
Harry and Meghan stepped down from their royal duties in March 2020, saying they wanted to carve out a new life in the United States, away from media harassment.
Reporting by Michael Holden. Writing by Kylie McClellan; Editing by Jonathan Otis Editing by Jonathan Otis
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