Meghan Markle pictured SMILING amid ‘royal racists’ scandal in UK

A smiling Meghan Markle was out and about in California on Monday, seemingly without a care in the world as the furor over the ‘racist royals’ continues back in England. The 42-year-old was spotted in Santa Barbara, a few miles from her Montecito mansion, seemingly oblivious to the firestorm raging in her husband Prince Harry’s home country.

The California-born mother-of-two was dressed down in black leggings and a black long-sleeved t-shirt, with a green baseball cap. Markle wore a pair of $100 (£80) New Balance 327 sneakers, and her favorite Krewe sunglasses, which retail for around $400 (£316).

It wasn’t clear if she was en route to the gym: her husband has been spotted working out in a Santa Barbara gym, and Markle is known for her love of yoga. As she strolled the beachfront Californian city, 5,000 miles away the royal row sparked by her former ally’s book rumbled on. 

Omid Scobie, who was seen as the unofficial spokesman for the couple, is still struggling to deal with the fallout from his new book, Endgame. An initial draft of the book, given to Dutch translators, named the two senior members of the royal family – King Charles and Kate – who Markle said told of their ‘concerns’ about the color of her son Archie’s skin, while she was pregnant.

Markle first made her allegations about the conversation in her televised interview with Oprah Winfrey, in March 2021. Winfrey reacted with horror to Markle’s version of events, and the accusations sparked a hunt for ‘the royal racists’ in the United Kingdom. 

Markle and her husband issued a statement saying it was not the late Queen or her husband Prince Philip, but have refused to name the members of the royal family who made the comments. Scobie’s book marks the first time they have been named. The Sussexes have declined to publicly defend their relatives, and the publisher of Scobie’s book has not provided any explanation for how the names ended up in print. 

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