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Serena Williams said, ‘Meghan Markle and I have been friends for so long that I know what she truly deserves. She isn’t as happy in the royal family as she should be. They need to resolve the issues within the royal family.'”
Serena Williams said, ‘Meghan Markle and I have been friends for so long that I know what she truly deserves. She isn’t as happy in the royal family as she should be. They need to resolve the issues within the royal family.'”
Since then, the two have became close confidantes, with Markle regularly attending Williams’ tennis matches, and Williams defending her friend from the mountain of negative attention she’s received since 2017.
After Markle’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, Williams took to Instagram to call her friend “truly nobleDuring the first episode of Markle’s podcast, she called Williams “my girl,” and discussed Williams’ career, her decision to step away from tennis, and shared a harrowing story about her royal tour in South Africa.
Keep scrolling to learn more about their sweet, yet private, friendship.”Markle, who was then starring on “Suits,” and Williams crossed paths again at the event, playing flag football together at a celebrity game.
“We hit it off immediately, taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in, and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old fashioned girlie stuff. So began our friendship,” Markle would write later on The Tig