Serena Williams praised Meghan for choosing a gospel choir

Tennis star Serena Williams said her friend Meghan Markle was ‘courageous’ for choosing music from her culture at her wedding.

At the wedding, The Kingdom Choir gospel group performed Stand By Me and This Little Light Of Mine.  

Speaking briefly in the Netflix documentary, Serena said: ‘To have her [Meghan’s] culture represented at that wedding was amazing. I loved it.

‘And I thought it was really courageous and breaking boundaries without trying to.’

Serena Williams spoke in the documentary about the gospel choir at the wedding, saying it was ‘courageous’  

Meghan’s friend, Dhru Purohit, an entrepreneur and podcast host, added: ‘We had this massive moment where myself, Oprah, Idris Elba, his partner, we all looked at each other for a brief moment and had a little bit of a chuckle.  

‘Nobody needed to say anything because everybody knew exactly the layers of symbolism that were taking place that day.’

The wedding featured The Kingdom Choir, which was created especially for the big day and conducted by award-winning Karen Gibson. 

Speaking in the documentary, Prince Harry said there was ‘no pushback’ on that idea.

The Kingdom Choir was made up of the best singers from gospel choirs and conducted by  Karen Gibson

He said: ‘Everyone was like “a gospel choir, oh that’s great”. And again there was more help from my dad on that.’

Meghan added: ‘He said they could take the best singers from gospel choirs and put them together – and that’s how The Kingdom Choir came to be.

‘They were great.’ 

The first three episodes of Harry & Meghan – part of the Sussexes’ multi-million-dollar deal with Netflix – were streamed last week, with the final three hour-long episodes streaming from today.

The Sussexes’ six-part show – which forms part of their multimillion-pound deal with Netflix – has become the streaming giant’s most-watched documentary in a premier week, debuting with 81.55 million hours viewed. 

The initial tranche covered the couple’s courtship and romance, but many were left deeply unhappy about the programme’s full-on assault on the late Queen’s Commonwealth legacy, with some saying it seemed as if the couple want to ‘bring down the monarchy’.

Harry also let rip with a string of sly digs at his family, particularly his father and brother, including the suggestion that they had married not for love but to a woman who fitted ‘the mould’.

The duke also said members of his family questioned why Meghan needed more protection from the media than their wives had been given, but that they failed to grasp the ‘race element’. 

The claims made in the trailer yesterday were quickly declared by royal experts as ‘nonsense’, while one commentator said the series was clearly a ‘form of revenge’. 

In one clip, Meghan’s British privacy lawyer Jenny Afia insisted she had seen evidence of the conspiracy against the Duchess before Lucy Fraser – real name Lucy Meadmore – a former PR manager who was a mystery figure until a week ago, says ‘Meg became this scapegoat for the Palace’. 

The Duchess herself also suggested she was made a scapegoat, adding: ‘You would see it play out. A story about someone in the family would pop up for a minute, and they’d go: ‘We’ve got to make that go away’.’ 

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