The tennis star says the royal 'couldn’t be a better friend to me.'
with her son, Archie. Ruthless mom-shamers and trolls claimed the new mother wasn't holding her child correctly. Can't the Duchess of Sussex catch a break?in 2016, Meghan has been at the subject of unnecessary jabs in the press and on the Internet, but her good friend Serena Williams has a tactic for dealing with all of the noise: ignore it.
Serena Williams and husband Alexis Ohanian attend Meghan Markle’s royal wedding to Prince Harry in May 2018.When asked about the recent negative coverage surrounding the duchess at a Wimbledon press conference today, Williams said,"I didn’t know there was negative media out there. Any time I see her name attached to anything, I don’t read it."
The athlete continued,"She couldn’t be a better friend to me. Low moments, high moments, she’s always there, and that’s all I want to be to her.Getty Images The Duchess of Sussex made similar comments about staying away from messy headlines earlier this year."I don't read anything," she said when someone asked if she uses Twitter
."It's much safer that way, but equally that's just my own personal preference, because I think positive or negative, it can all sort of just feel like noise to a certain extent these days."tomorrow, as the Duchess of Sussex and the Duchess of Cambridge are attending the women's singles finals together. Williams will be aiming for her 24th grand slam title against Romanian Simona Halep.
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