Meghan Markle will not attend the coronation of her father-in-law, King Charles III, on May 6. In an interview with Oprah in 2021, Markle accused a member of the Royal family of expressing “concerns” about the potential skin color of her and Harry’s (then unborn) son.
Responding to speculation that this may have something to do with her absence, Markle’s press secretary said that, on the contrary, Markle is “going about her life in the present, not thinking about correspondence from two years ago related to conversations from four years ago.” A friend of the couple confirms that Markle has “moved on” from the race row.
Has the rest of the family, I wonder? Imagine being the target of a vague but awful accusation for which there is no supporting evidence. When it transpires that there is, in fact, no supporting evidence, your accuser retreats into yet more vagueness, offering no apology and no acknowledgment of the pain and hurt they caused. All you get is an announcement that they have “moved on.”
This quote from The Great Gatsby seems apt in describing Meghan and Harry:
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.