Meghan & Harry Overshadowed at the ESPY Awards

Meghan Markle has pretty bad luck. She accidentally timed her departure from the royal family with a global pandemic that placed her under effective house arrest for almost two years, killing her momentum to build a major brand outside the BRF. She planned her massive assault on the royal family—with the Netflix documentary and Harry’s book Spare—for fall 2022, and then Queen Elizabeth II died, triggering an outpouring of love and emotion not just for the Queen but the entire royal family. On Thursday night, on a much smaller scale, it happened again. Meghan made a rare appearance with Prince Harry in Los Angeles for him to accept a big award at the ESPY Awards just when the embattled leader of the free world undertook a press conference that would, allegedly, determine if he was fit to pursue a second term as U.S. President. That is right, the annual ESPY Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in LA on Thursday, and Harry was out to accept the Pat Tillman Award with Meghan by his side, but press coverage was almost entirely eclipsed by the drama taking place in Washington, D.C. I did not realize Meghan had been out at all until sometime Friday, and I follow her news pretty closely.

Meghan does not participate in every event Harry does, but the ESPY was special.