By now, every detail of the outfit Meghan Markle wore during her tell-all with Oprah and Prince Harry has been discussed in full, from the lotus flowers on her Giorgio Armani dress to the diamond tennis bracelet of Princess Diana’s that was clasped on her wrist. But there was another look featured in the interview. 

While showing Oprah Archie’s Chick Inn, the chicken coop located in the backyard of the couple’s Santa Barbara home, the mom-to-be sported a simple white button-down with black jeans and a green jacket. The latter is from J.Crew and miraculously still available to buy. Even more miraculous, it’s on sale. 

Her choice of outerwear, aptly titled the “perfect lightweight jacket,” is waterproof and features a drawstring belt and hood. In addition to Markle’s color of choice, the jacket also comes in three other colors — warm clover, navy, and black. All styles are currently 45% off, ringing in at just under $70. Given that 17.1 million people tuned in for the CBS interview, though, the rain jacket likely won’t be on-sale — or in-stock for that matter — for much longer. 

Also available for purchase are the rubber boots that Markle wore with the look. Prior to the interview, the Hunter Wellies appeared on Markle on a number of occasions, dating back to when she and Prince Harry were just dating. While her boots aren’t currently on sale, you can purchase them for $150. 

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Two months after Alexander Wang first responded to allegations of sexual assault — that, at the time, the New York-based fashion designer called “baseless” and “false” — the designer released another statement. In an Instagram post on Monday, Wang addressed the people who have accused him of a string of sexual assaults: “A number of individuals have come forward recently to raise claims against me regarding my past personal behavior. I support their right to come forward, and I’ve listened carefully to what they had to say. It was not easy for them to share their stories, and I regret acting in a way that caused them pain.” 

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Later in the post, Wang added, “While we disagree on some of the details of these personal interactions, I will set a better example and use my visibility and influence to encourage others to recognize harmful behaviors.”

“Life is about learning and growth,” he wrote. “Now that I know better, I will do better.”

We have met with Alexander Wang and his team. My clients had the opportunity to speak their truth to him and expressed their pain and hurt.

We acknowledge Mr. Wang’s apology and we are moving forward.

We have no further comment on this matter.

— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) March 9, 2021

Following his post, Lisa Bloom, who was hired to represent 10 of the accusers, shared a response on Twitter that revealed she and her clients met with Wang and his team: “My clients had the opportunity to speak their truth to him and expressed their pain and hurt.” “We acknowledge Mr. Wang’s apology and we are moving forward,” the attorney, who previously advised Harvey Weinstein, wrote, adding that her clients had no further comment on the matter. 

The allegations against Wang started in December, when model Owen Mooney posted a series of videos on TikTok detailing an encounter with Wang in a New York City club in 2017: “I was by myself at one point and this guy next to me obviously took advantage of the fact that no one could fucking move and he just started like touching me up, like, fully up my leg and in my crotch.” Following this, a number of other people anonymously shared their own stories about Wang on Shit Model Management, which Diet Prada later re-shared. Some of Wang’s accusers, including David Casavant and Prue McCallum — both of whom are being represented by Bloom — went on to share their stories with The New York Times and New York Magazine, respectively.

Refinery29 reached out to the designer’s team for further comment. 

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After Oprah’s highly anticipated interview of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duchess and Duke of Sussex, many Americans are coming to terms with just how corrupt the British monarchy remains today. During the interview, Markle and Prince Harry described how a member of the royal family voiced concern over what their son Archie’s skin color would be while she was pregnant with him, and how members of the family helped perpetuate tabloid slander against Markle — never once stepping in to defend her.

Markle also made it clear that the royal institution failed to protect her when she reached out for help after suffering with depression and suicidal ideation. One thing remained clear, in no uncertain terms: The monarchy exists to protect its own bloodline — and nothing else.

Yet apparently, a number of conservative talking heads in the U.S. are willing to do free PR work for the royals, attacking Markle and Prince Harry in an attempt to discredit them. Megyn Kelly — who has somewhat of a reputation for defending, say, Donald Trump for example — went so far as to shame Markle for suffering from depression and speaking out about her mental health: “It’s a fact of life you have to learn to deal with. It doesn’t — it shouldn’t drive you to that kind of depression, those kinds of self-lamentations,” she said during an appearance on Piers Morgan’s show.

Charlie Kirk compared Markle to another Black actor, Jussie Smollett, who is believed to have fabricated a story about being attacked in a hate crime in 2019. “I think she’s making it up like Jussie Smollett,” Kirk said on Tuesday on his podcast.

Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro tweeted, “We told you not to screw with us, George III. And now we’ve unleashed our most dangerous resource: B-rate TV actresses wielding wokeness,” adding, “Imagine being Prince Philip: fighting Nazis, helping preside over the UK during the Cold War and the economic struggles of the 1970s, and now watching your spoiled grandson basically call the institution to which you have silently devoted your life a vile repository of bigotry.”

On Fox & Friends, host Ainsley Earhardt criticized Markle, saying, “I’ll just say, if I got a castle and I got the jewels and a crown, I wouldn’t be leaving!” insinuating that the royal family welcomed Meghan at all and that should have been enough.

Radio personality Erick Erickson also decided to jump on the woke-hating bandwagon, tweeting, “So essentially Harry and Meghan have joined Woke-o Haram and want to cancel the Royal Family for not being woke.”

It shouldn’t come as such a shock that these conservative media pundits are cheerleading the monarchy’s racism and abusive behavior. After all, these are the same people who have routinely defended the Confederacy, violence against Black Americans, anti-abortion initiatives, and rallied behind a violence-perpetuating police state. 

This past summer, Shapiro ranted for nearly 15 minutes in a video denouncing the Black Lives Matter movement. Kirk has continuously mocked Black Lives Matter protesters. “Imagine marching in the streets and dedicating your life to something that doesn’t exist. It must be a miserable life to believe America is a racist country. It takes effort to believe something so materially false,” Kirk tweeted in June. In a recent Fox News segment, Earhardt attempted to justify the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, saying, “There are 75 million people that voted for President Trump. And they are scared. They are worried about what the future of this country looks like. They are confused and heartbroken that their candidate didn’t win and they don’t want to be forgotten.”

By attacking Markle, these right-wing pundits are continuing to perpetuate the ideologies of white supremacy inherent in the monarchy, stemming from colonialist roots that have laid the groundwork for what culminated in Markle’s ostracism. Conservatives — much like the monarchy itself — fail to show any proof that Markle didn’t experience racism, or that she has no reasons to speak out. But that likely won’t stop them from trying.

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It is considered the most sensational interview since Princess Diana’s Panorama bombshell 26 years ago. On March 7, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s sit down with talk show host Oprah Winfrey set Twitter ablaze, sent group chats sparking and left Royal aides silenced. The primetime interview revealed Harry and Meghan’s broken relationship with “racist” Britain, the Royal Family and the press, while highlighting Meghan’s mental health struggles during her first pregnancy.

After Meghan and Harry revealed to Oprah that their second-born child would be a girl, Oprah probed Harry on whether their treatment was the result of Meghan’s mixed heritage. His response was shocking but unsurprising.

“No, just… the two of us to start with,” he said. “I hadn’t really thought about the mixed-race piece because I thought, well…well, firstly, you know, I’ve spent many years doing the work and doing my own learning. But my upbringing in the system, of which I was brought up in and what I’ve been exposed to, it wasn’t… I wasn’t aware of it to start with. But, my god, it doesn’t take very long to suddenly become aware of it.”

Oprah then pushed him for an answer and asked whether this was related to his previous comments about not being aware of unconscious bias until meeting Meghan. “Yeah,” he responded. “You know, as sad as it is to say, it takes living in her shoes — in this instance, for a day, or those first eight days — to see where it was going to go and how far they were going to take it…and get away with it and be so blatant about it.”

Many praised Harry for his modesty and for his ability to look inward, but I found it jarring. Prince Harry, a man who once attended a fancy dress party in an SS uniform (he soon apologized for his “poor choice of costume”), is now talking about unconscious bias, something I encounter every day living in Britain. As a mixed Black woman, I know all too well about the systemic prejudices white people have against Black communities. We see it every day in headlines (“Prince Harry’s Girl Is Straight Outta Compton“, “Suicidal-Race Victim Meghan“). And during “debates”, as we saw on Good Morning Britain this morning, in which Piers Morgan continues to invite Black women to discuss racism, only to ask them to prove it, and the constant gaslighting we all experience on a day to day basis.

It also made me think of all the times I had received messages in the past from white men on dating apps, who called me “chocolate” or “caramel baby”, one even going so far as to call me his “favorite n****r”. Let me be clear: I’m not saying Harry is like them. I’m saying that his being some kind of spokesperson for all that’s woke is difficult for me. Clearly, from his comment about realizing what it’s like having stood in Meghan’s shoes, Harry would get it now. He’d understand how I feel to think back to white men who’ve told me they’ve never dated a Black person before and wondered how dark our genitals were compared to our white counterparts. Those men seemed to me as if they were hoping to “experience Blackness”, that their proximity to it could prove their wokeness. 

“Listening and learning” has been a buzzphrase in the last year, notably after the world was forced to face up to its racial reckoning. But one thing is clear: no matter how well educated you are, white people in Britain still don’t notice their racial bias and how it impacts people unless they are willing to walk in our shoes.

Harry, despite growing up privileged, is highly educated. He’s travelled all over the Commonwealth, the very institution that has deep colonial roots, met people from all different cultures, and spearheaded a mental health campaign that represented a diverse range of ethnicities. So why, in 2021, at the age of 36, has he admitted to not having recognized unconscious bias before dating Meghan, a mixed woman?

I found his comment particularly significant and triggering because despite Black people constantly sharing their experiences with how racism and systemic racism impacts our lives, white people continually admit that they are “unaware” of unconscious bias. Why does it take almost 40 years for one man to suddenly realize that the world he is living in is geared towards treating Black people as inferior?

Harry might be the newly-crowned “Woke Prince”, but what’s woke about being acutely unaware of racial prejudice until so recently? How can we excuse it? He may be taking on one of Britain’s oldest institutions as a prominent person within it, but he is not automatically a saint for doing so. It won’t erase his involvement.

Harry’s journey to wokeness just proves, time and time again, that white people need to shut up, do a little more than “the work”, and actually listen to what Black people, specifically Black women, have to say in order to dismantle institutional and structural racism in Britain.

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Just as abruptly as he stormed out of the studio on Tuesday morning after his co-host denounced his continued criticism of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Piers Morgan says that he will no longer host ITV’s Good Morning Britain, effective immediately. 

This fallout occurred in two parts, but it is predated by years of Morgan chastising Markle for tearing Harry away from the royal family. The first incident took place on Monday following Oprah Winfrey’s explosive interview with the couple. In the interview, Markle shared that, at points, she had suicidal thoughts. She also revealed that a member of the royal family raised concerns about how dark her baby’s skin would be. On Twitter, Morgan labeled the interview an “absolutely disgraceful betrayal” of the Queen. Further, he said that he expected this “vile destructive self-serving nonsense” from Meghan — but not Harry.

Morgan then went on to attack Markle by questioning whether she was being truthful about her mental health, which he was immediately reproached for online. “Just another reminder that anyone who criticizes Meghan Markle is deemed a racist bully,” he tweeted later that same day. Since then, he tried to walk back his insensitive take. But clearly, he didn’t walk back too far.

The second incident occurred on Tuesday while on air. Morgan’s Good Morning Britain co-host, Alex Beresford, had enough of his excessive criticism of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. “I understand that you don’t like Meghan Markle, you’ve made it so clear a number of times on this program,” Beresford said to Morgan. “And I understand that you’ve got a personal relationship with Meghan Markle, or had one and she cut you off…Has she said anything about you since she cut you off? I don’t think she has, but yet you continue to trash her.”

At that point, Morgan stood up abruptly and walked off set, saying: “Okay, I’m done with this. Sorry, no, sorry…see you later, sorry, can’t do this.”

But this is nothing new for Morgan, who has actually cultivated a brand of chastising Markle for years now. Morgan met Markle years ago. He followed her on Twitter and she reportedly messaged him saying she was a fan of his. They chatted online before meeting for a drink in London in 2016 while she was in the city to watch Serena Williams at Wimbledon. 

“We had two hours in the pub, she had a couple of dirty martinis and a couple of pints — we got on brilliantly,” Morgan said during an appearance on the Late Late Show. “Then I put her in a cab, and it turns out it was the cab that took her to a party where she met Prince Harry. The next night they had a solo dinner and that was the last I ever heard from Meghan Markle. I never heard from her again…Meghan Markle ghosted me.”

According to Grazia, Morgan — all while claiming to not care about Markle — has tweeted about her more than 60 times in the last month alone.

Following Monday’s broadcast, U.K. media regulator, Ofcom, said it received over 41,000 complaints about Good Morning Britain in response to Morgan’s actions. In a statement released by the company on Twitter, it said that it is launching a formal investigation into Monday’s episode of the show, specifically Morgan’s statements about Markle’s mental health, citing that it goes against Ofcom’s “harm and offence rules.”

ITV released a short statement which reads: “Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain. ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add.”

So it appears that Morgan’s entire dislike of Markle is based on her lack of desire to maintain a relationship with him, which frankly is a phenomenon that reeks of sexism and misogyny. He is not entitled to her time, friendship, or anything else. Plain and simple. Morgan thinking otherwise — and then spending years criticizing her in front of millions of people — just goes to show that he should have been off the air a lot sooner.

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