Meghan Markle stars at Lakers game amid Charles letter speculation

The timing couldn’t be better for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to be photographed in a luxury suite at a Los Angeles Lakers game, gigging and laughing together.

The couple’s appearance at Monday night’s game, with an entourage of Archewell associates, allowed the American Duchess of Sussex to show she’s enjoying “live in the present,” as she said in a statement over the weekend – not consumed by her feud with the British royal family, the “unconscious bias” allegations she made against a so-called, unnamed “royal racist” two years ago or her decision to skip King Charles III’s May 6 coronation.

Harry and Meghan are in the building for Lakers – Grizzlies game four pic.twitter.com/asqqX39kJm

— Ava Brand (@avabssports) April 25, 2023

Harry and Meghan’s smiling cameo on the Lakers Jumbotron, before a 20,000-strong crowd at the Crypto.com arena that included Kim Kardashian, Adam Sandler and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, came two days after she appeared to denounce speculation that she or someone from her team could be a source for a bombshell report Friday in The Daily Telegraph about those “unconscious bias” allegations.

The Duchess of Sussex expressed her concerns about unconscious bias in the Royal family in a letter to the King, The Telegraph can reveal.

It is understood that the correspondence was sent in the wake of the March 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview

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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 21, 2023

A statement released from “Team Sussex,” through her biographer Omid Scobie said: “The Duchess of Sussex is going about her life in the present, not thinking about correspondence from two years ago related to conversations from four years ago. Any suggestion otherwise is false and frankly ridiculous. We encourage tabloid media and various other royal correspondents to stop the exhausting circus that they alone are creating.”

The Telegraph report said that Meghan and Charles exchanged letters in 2021 following her and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. During the interview, Meghan famously alleged that a member of the royal family made comments about the skin color of their then-unborn children, leading to two years of global speculation and discussion about racism in the royal family.

The Telegraph reported that Charles wrote Meghan, wanting to know more about this family member’s comments but expressing disappointment that Meghan made such damaging allegations public. In their exchange, the then-Prince of Wales and his daughter-in-law agreed that the person’s remarks were not made with malice, while she suggested it was the result of “unconscious bias.”

While the letters were said to be “warm in tone,” the exchange left Meghan dissatisfied with how the royal family had handled her various concerns, including how bullying complaints against her were addressed, The Telegraph said.

Meghan’s belief that these issues have still not been resolved was “thought” to be one of the factors in her decision to not accompany Harry to Charles’ coronation, The Telegraph reported. Other reports have said that Meghan was skipping the coronation because she wanted to avoid a cool reception from her royal-in-laws or a hostile reception from the British public. Scobie reported that the duchess wanted to be in California for her son Archie’s fourth birthday, which also falls on coronation day.

Revelations in The Telegraph about this letter exchange set off a storm of speculation about who leaked this information and who stands to benefit. Supporters of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex imagined that royal courtiers shared this news — perhaps because it was a way to show the new king in a favorable light. The report confirms that he wasn’t the “royal racist” and presents him as a concerned father-in-law trying to reach out and listen to his daughter-in-law’s concerns.

But several well-known royal reporters joined the online chorus of those who suspect that someone in the Sussex camp was behind the leak. In a tweet, London Times reporter Valentine Low asked if Meghan wanted to undermine a possible rapprochement that could take place between Harry and Charles as Harry attends his father’s coronation. Low also said it was “intriguing” that Harry and Meghan might resort to anonymous leaks — or “briefing” with reporters — given that they’ve condemned the royal family for using anonymous sources

Low subsequently backtracked on his statements as he indicated that both sides — the Sussexes and Buckingham Palace — had their lawyers fire off letters to different members of the media in the wake of The Telegraph report.

“Given that legal letters have been sent by the Sussexes’ lawyers as well as the palace’s since the story was published, it seems I was wrong in assuming that it came from the Sussex camp,” Low tweeted. “Sorry to all about that. But even more intriguing!”

The Duchess of Sussex expressed her concerns about unconscious bias in the Royal family in a letter to the King, The Telegraph can reveal.

It is understood that the correspondence was sent in the wake of the March 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview

Read more:https://t.co/TdTi6RBJxl pic.twitter.com/kVbyUgHBjj

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) April 21, 2023

Not surprisingly, critics of the Sussexes weren’t satisfied with Low’s backtracking or with the view that Meghan and Harry would never use anonymous sources to share information. They pointed out that Meghan and Harry repeatedly denied cooperating with Scobie and his co-author Carolyn Durand when they were writing their sympathetic biography “Finding Freedom” — until evidence produced in a London court proved otherwise and Meghan was forced to apologize for misleading the court about the extent of her cooperation, as the Associated Press reported.