LONDON (Reuters) – Meghan, the wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, criticised the British media on Saturday over reports that letters exchanged with King Charles played a part behind her decision not to attend his coronation, her latest confrontation with the press.
The Daily Telegraph reported Meghan sent a letter to the now-king in which she expressed her concerns regarding unconscious bias among the royal family. It said the letter was sent following her 2021 comments in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that the family had raised concerns about how dark her son’s skin would be.
It was reported that the Duchess did not feel like she had received an adequate response to her concerns.
“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,” a spokesperson for Meghan said.
“Any suggestion otherwise is false and frankly ridiculous. We encourage tabloid media and various royal correspondents to stop the exhausting circus that they alone are creating.”
Prince Harry will attend the coronation next month without Meghan, who will remain in California with the couple’s two young children. Archie, their eldest child, celebrates his fourth birthday on the same date.
Harry and Meghan said that they would be stepping down from their royal duties by March 2020. They wanted to live a new, independent life in America away from media harassment.
(Reporting Michael Holden; writing Kylie MacLellan Editing Jonathan Oatisditing Jonathan Oatis
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