Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back into the limelight just hours before it was revealed the Princess of Wales has cancer.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were pictured at the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection’s event at SoFi Stadium yesterday as the couple have stepped up their public engagements.
Last week, Meghan launched her new lifestyle brand ‘American Riviera Orchard’ while Harry was announced to speak at the two-day Better Up Conference in San Francisco.
Questions will now be asked if the pair will fly back to the UK to show support their sister-in-law, who this evening announced she has cancer.
In a video message, the Princess of Wales thanked the public for their support and revealed that tests after her operation found cancer had been present.
In a video message, the Princess of Wales thanked the public for their support and revealed that tests after her operation found cancer had been present
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped back into the limelight just hours before it was revealed the Princess of Wales has cancer
TV personality Shaun Robinson posted an image on Instagram today of Prince Harry and Meghan at the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection’s event at SoFi Stadium
It means that a third member of the royal family is battling cancer, including King Charles and Sarah Ferguson.
Last month, Prince Harry flew home for what turned out to be a 45-minute reunion with his father following his diagnosis.
Yesterday, in a video from the event posted on Instagram by screenwriter Matheos Coelho, Meghan could be heard saying: ‘I thought oh my gosh, the extension of that can mean you’re vocal about your success, they’ll see you and say you deserved it.
‘And hopefully you get to that place… so a huge thanks to the Kinsey family of course for not just having this incredible…’Ms Robinson, who is a supporter of the collection, said: ‘Thank you Duke & Duchess of Sussex and @thearchewellorganization for supporting the @kinseycollection.’
In a second post showing a panel discussion, she added: ‘Great discussion last night supported by @thearchewellorganization and Duke & Duchess of Sussex.’
Harry and Meghan live in nearby Montecito in a £12million mansion with their children Prince Archie, four, and two-year-old Princess Lilibet.
It comes as Harry’s father King Charles III continues to undergo treatment for cancer – with Queen Camilla yesterday insisting he was ‘doing very well’.
Screenwriter Matheos Coelho posted a picture he had taken with Meghan yesterday
Ms Robinson said in another Instagram post that Harry and Meghan ‘supported’ the discussion
Harry’s father King Charles III at Buckingham Palace yesterday, meeting Singapore’s high commissioner to the UK, Ng Teck Hean, who was joined by his wife, Mok Ling Ling
Last week Meghan unveiled a new cooking and lifestyle business called American Riviera Orchard – focusing on home, garden, food and lifestyle wares.
The launch came on the same day that Harry made an appearance via videolink at the Diana Legacy Award event at the Science Museum in London.
And earlier this week, former US president Donald Trump suggested Harry could be deported from America if he lied about his drug use on a visa application.
The Republican frontrunner told Nigel Farage that ‘appropriate action’ would be taken if the Duke concealed his past substance abuse on his immigration papers.
Also this week, Harry and Meghan were ‘downgraded’ on the official Buckingham Palace website.
Despite acrimoniously stepping down as senior working royals in January 2020, full and separate profiles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had remained up alongside the rest of the Royal Family until yesterday morning.
Harry’s sister-in-law Kate was last seen with her family at Sandringham on Christmas Day 2023
On Mondaythose pictures and biographies briefly vanished. Within half an hour they were replaced with a significantly smaller, joint biography at the very bottom of the page – below the Duke of York.
The Sussexes’ entry now reads that they have stepped back as working royals, with just a couple of short paragraphs on each of them.
As for the Kinsey Exhibition, it aims to ‘celebrate the achievements and contributions of black Americans from before the formation of the United States to present times’.
Bernard and Shirley Kinsey are behind the collection, having spent five decades amassing one of the world’s biggest private collections of black art and artefacts.
The items include a 1963 typed letter from human rights activist Malcolm X to author Alex Haley, and a handwritten bill of sale for an enslaved black man from 1832.
