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Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Involved successful "Near Catastrophic" Car Chase
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's team is serving up immoderate royal beverage for critics of the couple.
Nearly a week after a rep for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said they were progressive in a two-hour car pursuit with paparazzi, their spokesperson is addressing claims that the incidental was for publicity.
"Respectfully, considering the duke's household history, 1 would person to deliberation thing of the mates oregon anybody associated with them to judge this was immoderate benignant of P.R. stunt," their rep told the New York Times, referencing the decease of Harry's parent Princess Diana, who was killed successful a 1997 car crash. "Quite frankly, I deliberation that's abhorrent."
On May 16, Harry, Meghan and her ma Doria Ragland were successful New York City to attend the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards, wherever the duchess was honored.
According to the pair's rep, after leaving the event, the trio were progressive successful a "near catastrophic car chase" with "highly assertive paparazzi."
"This relentless pursuit, lasting implicit 2 hours, resulted successful aggregate adjacent collisions involving different drivers connected the road, pedestrians and 2 NYPD officers," the spokesperson told E! News May 17. "While being a nationalist fig comes with a level of involvement from the public, it should ne'er travel astatine the outgo of anyone's safety."
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The NYPD besides addressed the incidental involving the royal couple.
"On Wednesday evening, May 16, the NYPD assisted the backstage information squad protecting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex," the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information told E! News. "There were galore photographers that made their transport challenging. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived astatine their destination and determination were nary reported collisions, summonses, injuries, oregon arrests successful regard."
Over the years, Harry—who, on with Meghan, stepped distant from royal beingness successful 2020—has spoken retired against the press, adjacent sharing his fearfulness of his mother's fatal past repeating itself with Meghan.
"My occupation is to support my household safe," helium said in their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan. "But the quality of being calved into this presumption amid everything that comes with it and the level of hatred that is being stirred up successful the past 3 years, particularly against my woman and my son, I'm mostly acrophobic for the information of my family."
E! News has reached retired to Harry and Meghan's rep for further remark and has not heard back.
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