Megid Markle’s friend, Omid Scobie, claims that her thoughts are ‘a lot about the situation here’ and that she is sad because ‘she also lost a family member’ when he led on ABC on Saturday about Prince Philip’s funeral.
Meghan is pregnant and in California. She did not join Harry for his grandfather’s funeral. It comes a month after she killed the royal family during an interview with Oprah.
Scobie, her friend who wrote the book Finding Freedom, was on ABC as a correspondent from London.
Meghan’s other US media ally, Gayle King, led the coverage of the funeral for CBS from the studio in Manhattan on the network.
Scobie said: “Although Meghan is not here, she obviously supports Harry … her thoughts are very important in the situation here.”
He goes on to say: ‘We know that she is supporting Harry in this very difficult week for him, but she will also be sad because it is also the loss of a family member for her.
‘She has grown very close to the Queen and Prince Philip over the past few years. It was probably her strongest relationship within the family, and these relationships are getting smaller this week.
“It will be a sad day for her.”
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Meghan Markle’s friend, Omid Scobie, claims that her thoughts ‘are very much about the situation here’ and that she is sad because ‘she also lost a family member’ when he was leading ABC on Saturday about Prince Philip’s funeral.
Gayle King, another of Meghan’s friends, led CBS ‘coverage.
She made no mention of the devastating interview with Oprah who aired her own network while Philip was in the hospital, but said she suspected the family differences would be set aside for the day.
“William and Harry, there is no secret about this, have had a strained relationship that you could say since Harry stepped down from his royal duties.”
She then said during a conversation with former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown that there is ‘family drama’ that the world is speculating about.
‘Do we read too much in body language? They did not stand shoulder to shoulder when their mother was buried. It was according to the queen’s design, ‘she said.
Harry and William walked behind the custom Defender Land Rover that was carrying their grandfather’s body, but was a few feet apart.
King said Harry was in quarantine until “this morning” after flying to the UK without his pregnant wife Meghan.
‘A lot has been made … at the end of the day it’s a grieving family. I would suspect that all the family differences for the day would be singled out, ‘she said.
She was slapped by viewers who told her to ‘show respect’. Some believe she was chosen to anchor the special report after the Oprah interview.
She also led coverage last week on the death of Prince Philip, and the network devoted three packages to it in their morning program, but none of them interviewed Meghan, Prince Harry or the allegations of racism they made to his family in the interview. has, not mentioned.
CBS host Gayle King was in the network in the Manhattan studio and said she suspected the family differences would be set aside ‘for the day’.
Viewers disapproved of Gayle King’s coverage, calling it ‘disrespectful’
King is best friends with Oprah, visited Meghan in Windsor and attended her baby shower.
She undoubtedly had a hand in the orchestration of the interview that sent shock waves around the world and rocked through the royal family at a time when Prince Philip was seriously ill in hospital.
King and her CBS groups not only extensively promoted the interview, but they also analyzed it once it aired, saying Meghan was ‘maligned’ and ‘suppressed’.
Scobie announced Harry’s personal tribute to Philip earlier this week, calling him a “legend of jokes”, claiming the funeral would be the “first step” in restoring his relationship with William.
Royal experts help ‘on eggshells’ as they try to navigate the gorge, sources say.
King recently claims that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had an agreement with CBS and ITV to postpone their bombing interview with Oprah Winfrey if Prince Philip were to die.
Neither Gayle nor Omid mentioned the devastating interview Harry and Meghan gave to Oprah
She had already unleashed a while after revealing that the Sussex had told her they were having conversations with Harry’s brother, Prince William and father Charles, who were ‘not productive’.
Scobie is also known as friends with Meghan, and last month published an email demanding that assistants release a statement alleging that Kate drove her to tears at a bridesmaid dress.
It turned out on Thursday that William and Harry would not stand shoulder to shoulder behind their coffin’s ear cupboard. Instead, they will be on either side of their cousin, Peter Phillips.
Insiders stressed that the arrangement should not be seen as a sign that the brothers are refusing to walk side by side.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: ‘This is a funeral … we will not be drawn into the perceptions of drama. The arrangements have been agreed and this reflects the wishes of Her Majesty. ‘
Sources did concede that the fraternal strife had taken up “a lot of thought and energy” in the Lord Chamberlain office, which is responsible for today’s arrangements.
“Everyone walks on eggshells so as not to aggravate the situation,” said one.
‘To be honest, both William and Harry made it clear that they wanted to concentrate on their grandfather and did not want anything in the way.
‘But it made everyone so nervous to say anything that at a distance could be considered critical of the other side. It was a minefield. ‘
Sources maintain that the formation of those walking behind the coffin was based on ‘bloodlines and age’.
Prince Philip will be laid to rest today during a ceremony at Windsor Castle