Gayle King says her friends Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are in place after the renegade royal launched his controversial memoir about his household earlier this yr.

“I believe that Harry and Meghan reside their fact and I believe they are going to make their finest selections for themselves,” she informed Web page Six on the Time 100 Gala this week.

“I believe they’re very strong,” the “CBS Mornings” co-host continued, including that “they don’t seek the advice of me about their very own selections.”

“They make their very own selections and to this point they’re doing what works and what’s finest for them.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex bowed out of senior royal life in January 2020 and are actually primarily based in California.

King, 68, has been a longtime good friend and supporter of the royal couple having met them by way of her finest good friend Oprah Winfrey.

She was one of many company at Markle’s child bathe in 2019 when the Duchess was pregnant with Prince Archie.

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On air, the anchor revealed that “ time was had by all, that’s what I’ll say…it was a really, very small personal affair and only a very particular time for her.”

She defended the couple in 2022 when Andy Cohen jokingly referred to as the Netflix sequence, “Harry & Meghan,” a actuality present.

“It’s not a actuality present,” King retorted. “It’s not.”

One of many “selections” that the couple made lately was for Markle to not attend King Charles III’s upcoming coronation.

As a substitute, Prince Harry will probably be attending solo.

Web page Six completely reported that Markle felt it will be “inauthentic” for her to go to the ceremony in gentle of the drama that has adopted her and Harry’s royal exit.

“They needed to decide that felt real and genuine, particularly after every part that has been mentioned and all of the issues which have gone down,” an insider acquainted with the couple informed us.

Markle additionally selected to skip because the Might 6 coronation falls on the identical day as her son Prince Archie’s fourth birthday.

In the meantime, King was glad to be mingling with different A-listers on the starry gala.

“It is a very particular evening,” she shared. “I really feel individuals are simply so glad to be out of the home. We nonetheless have Covid lurking round, however I’m uninterested in being afraid of it so to come back out and have fun people who find themselves doing good issues for the world and altering issues on the planet is a good factor.”

Different celebs on the annual bash included Ali Wong, Michael B. Jordan, Drew Barrymore, Kim Kardashian, Lea Michele, Don Lemon, Salma Hayek and Mia Farrow.