Could per chance 21, 2023 |5:22pm

Gayle King thinks it’s “troubling” that of us are “downplaying” the two-hour paparazzi plod her friends Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had been fascinated by earlier this week in Unusual York City.

“I focus on it used to be a in actuality sorrowful incident,” the CBS journalist exclusively instructed Net page Six Saturday at the 148th Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, Md.

“It’s troubling to me that anyone would strive to downplay what that would possibly possibly per chance point out to them. That’s very troubling to me.”

Relating to the slew of media personalities and celebrities who have spoken out against the account that the two had been “chased” in the streets of Unusual york, King acknowledged it’s unsettling that some are attempting to “decrease how [Harry and Markle] felt in that 2d.”

Gayle King called the media’s reputedly unsympathetic response to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Unusual York City automobile plod “troubling.”
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“I’m goal correct in actuality sorry it took allege and very sorry they’d to struggle thru it,” acknowledged King, who used to be in Baltimore making ready to provide a commencement speech at her alma mater, the College of Maryland, this week. “All people can have all of their opinions but I continuously go support to, ‘How did they in point of fact feel in that 2d?’”

King, 68, met Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, thru her finest friend, Oprah Winfrey, and has been friends with the two ever since.

As Net page Six beforehand reported, the royal couple – accompanied by Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland – had been pursued by photographers thru the streets of Unusual york on Could per chance 16 after leaving the Ziegfeld Theater.

The CBS journalist confirmed sympathy for her two royal friends, expressing that it is major how the two felt “in that 2d.”
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The trio now not without prolong hopped out of their bear SUV and valid into a working cab driver’s automobile — later is named Sukhcharn Singh — in an strive to evade the paps, however the pursuit went on.

A fetch for Harry and Markle supplied the next assertion to Net page Six on Wednesday: “Final night, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms. Ragland had been fascinated by a come catastrophic automobile plod by the hands of a ring of extremely aggressive paparazzi.

“This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in a couple of come collisions provocative other drivers on the freeway, pedestrians and two NYPD officers. Whereas being a public resolve comes with a level of hobby from the public, it would possibly possibly well silent by no components come at the fee of anyone’s safety.”

Unusual York City cab driver Sukhcharn Singh used to be in the driver’s seat when the royal couple hopped in his cab to defend up away from paps.
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However, a resolution of media personalities slammed the account that Harry and Markle’s reps supplied, including “The Look” co-host Whoopi Goldberg who slammed the royal couple’s use of the be conscious “automobile plod.”

“I focus on of us in Unusual York know if it used to be that you’re going to be in a situation to focus on of to have automobile chases in Unusual York, we’d all make it to the theater on time,” Goldberg acknowledged.

TV personality Megyn Kelly additionally called out the Sussexes sooner or later of “The Megyn Kelly Level to,” asserting, “There’s no such thing as a components of having a two-hour automobile plod in Unusual York City, in Unusual york. There goal correct isn’t.”

The Sussexes had been allegedly chased by paps after leaving an tournament honoring Markle in Unusual york on Could per chance 16.
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King expressed her inconvenience for her royal friends while attending the 148th Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, Md.
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King has notoriously supported Harry and Markle in the past.

She defended the two in 2022 when Andy Cohen jokingly called the Netflix series “Harry & Meghan” a actuality existing on an episode of “Watch What Happens Reside.”

“It’s no longer a actuality existing,” King, who used to be a guest on the existing, rebutted. “It’s no longer.”

King attended the 148th Preakness Stakes to increase her friend and 300 Entertainment co-founder, Kevin Liles.

“I’m right here attributable to Kevin Liles,” she instructed us. “He is Baltimore’s finest cheerleader, finest champion and he’s so all in favour of the metropolis. I was right here final year too and he invited me, and I acknowledged, ‘I’ll be support!’”