Last weekend, 25 of the entertainment industry’s most influential women gathered at a highly-publicised beauty event in Los Angeles that also served as Oprah Winfrey’s 69th birthday party. Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Cindy Crawford and Sharon Stone were among the guests. As various American publications were quick to point out, however, the Duchess of Sussex was not.
Her absence has been interpreted by some as a sign that her friendship with the all-powerful Winfrey — a guest at Harry and Meghan’s wedding in Windsor and now their neighbour in Montecito, California — is on the rocks. Winfrey has positioned herself as an ardent Sussex sympathiser since she sat down with the couple in March 2021 for their first big interview after leaving the UK. The
