LONDON — Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has dismissed a U.Ok. media report claiming that she determined to skip King Charles III’s upcoming coronation over his response to a letter she despatched him about “unconscious bias” in Britain’s royal household.
Each Buckingham Palace and representatives of the Duke and Duchess beforehand confirmed that Prince Harry would attend the coronation with out Meghan, who plans to stay in California with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
The coronation will happen on Archie’s 4th birthday.
“The Duchess of Sussex goes about her life within the current, not fascinated by correspondence from two years in the past associated to conversations from 4 years in the past,” a spokesperson for the Sussexes advised NBC Information. “Any suggestion in any other case is fake and albeit ridiculous.”
“We encourage tabloid media and varied different royal correspondents to cease exhausting the circus that they alone are creating,” the spokesperson added.
The remark comes after a report in British newspaper The Every day Telegraph citing an nameless supply claimed that Meghan wouldn’t be attending the Might 6 occasion over the king’s response to issues she raised about unconscious bias — beliefs and stereotypes that individuals will not be totally conscious they carry —following her bombshell interview alongside Prince Harry on the Oprah Winfrey present in March 2021.
NBC Information was not in a position to independently affirm these particulars and Buckingham Palace declined to touch upon the report.
In the course of the interview, Meghan had mentioned {that a} member of the household had made a remark speculating on how darkish their then-unborn son’s pores and skin can be, sparking widespread outcry and questions round who made the remark.
A spokesman for Charles, then inheritor to the throne, beforehand dismissed claims that he had mentioned the topic
Within the rapid aftermath of Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah, Buckingham Palace issued a press release saying the royal household was “saddened” to study the extent of the challenges confronted by Meghan and Harry.
“The problems raised, significantly that of race, are regarding,” the assertion mentioned. “Whereas some recollections might differ, they’re taken very significantly and shall be addressed by the household privately.”
Prince William additionally beforehand commented on the interview, saying in March 2021 that the royals are “very a lot not a racist household.”
The king’s coronation will see Harry reunited with the remainder of the household for what seems to be the primary time for the reason that launch of his tell-all memoir, Spare.
It had beforehand been unclear whether or not Harry or Meghan would take part within the main occasion within the wake of their announcement three years in the past that they might “step again” as senior royals.
The lingering animosity between the edges was on full show lately within the Netflix sequence “Harry & Meghan,” wherein the couple additionally mentioned the topic of unconscious bias.