The Real Reason Meghan Markle Will Sit Out Coronation 

It has less to do with Buckingham Palace than some pent-up Montecito choler.

AP/Peter Dejong, file
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, duke and duchess of Sussex, visit the track and field event at the Invictus Games at the Hague, Netherlands. AP/Peter Dejong, file

For many spectators, the most missed presence at the coronation of King Charles III next month will not be that of Meghan, duchess of Sussex, but the late Diana, princess of Wales. In inevitably dreary propinquity to Charles will be the woman soon to be known as the former queen consort and Britain’s newest crowned queen, Camilla — a woman who plays the long game, and is now accepted by most Britons if not universally loved

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