If you thought leaving the continent would put an end to the Witch Trials of Meghan Markle you were wrong. Nope, being 5,000 away from Buckingham Palace hasn’t stopped the decoding frenzy over her every decision, blink and hair flick.
In the latest instalment of Meghan’s Trying To Overthrow The Royal Family there’s been speculation over whether the reason she won’t be attending the King’s coronation next month has something to do with a letter she wrote to Charles after the interview she and Harry did with Oprah in 2021.
In the interview, the pair made racism claims and said concerns had been raised about their unborn son Archie’s skin colour. Afterwards, Meghan allegedly wrote to Charles saying she wasn’t trying to accuse one specific person of racism, but was concerned about unconscious bias. The letter also reportedly named the person who speculated about Archie - though she did say she didn’t think the skin colour comment was made with malice.
She reportedly sent the letter in response to correspondence from Charles, who was the only senior member of the family to make contact after the Oprah interview. Charles supposedly replied saying he was disappointed she'd stated this so publicly.
So what has any of this got to do with the coronation?
Well, now a source has told the Daily Telegraph that the Duchess will not attend the coronation because she received an unsatisfactory response from the King. But it seems this was one falsehood too far, because Meghan has responded to say, basically, that's a load of absolute nonesense.
In a statement to Bazaar.com, Ashley Hansen, global press secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, wrote that claims that Meghan is not attending King Charles' coronation over the matter are ‘ridiculous.’
‘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 royal correspondents to stop the exhausting circus that they alone are creating.’
The tone of the statement screams ‘’av a day off will ya’, and we don’t blame Meghan. The circus around her has become exhausting. It’s hard to imagine what it must be like for stories to be conjured up about you, fabricated out of thin air, to whip up hysteria or hateful sentiment. There appears to be no basis for this story, so no wonder Meghan wanted to set the record straight. But she shouldn’t have to, and she wouldn't have time to respond to every bizarre falsehood.
We already know the coronation clashes with Archie’s fourth birthday, which royal author Omid Scobie said on Twitter ‘played a factor in the couple’s decision.’ Even if the decision not to attend was a ‘snub’, as some are calling it, it’s important to set boundaries when it comes to in-laws, especially if you have a fractured relationship with them.
She may know she needed to avoid the event - where she'd inevitably end up being the headliner - to protect her mental health and therefore her family. The fact we’ll never know the exact reason doesn’t give us license to make up stories and speculate. Her statement was spot on: stop the circus, because it’s boring, dangerous and has been going on far too long.