Meghan Markle has been accused of wearing “blood money” earrings gifted by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on two separate official occasions.
Markle wore the earrings — initially given to Queen Elizabeth — at a state dinner in Fiji during a royal tour that included Tonga, Australia and New Zealand in October 2018, just three weeks after Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Saudi Arabia. The U.S. has accused the crown prince of ordering Khashoggi’s death.
“Those earrings were bought with blood money and given to her by a murderer,” Michael Eisner, a lawyer fighting for justice for Khashoggi, said, according to The Daily Mail. “She has no business wearing them.”
“Those earrings were bought with blood money and given to her by a murderer. She has no business wearing them.”
The crown prince reportedly gave the chandelier earrings to the queen as an official wedding gift for the couple during a lunch at Buckingham Palace in March 2018. There is no evidence Markle met him at the time or has met him.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, wears earrings from Saudi Arabia’s leader on Nov. 14, 2018 in London. (Getty Images)
Markle’s lawyers have insisted she wasn’t aware of the Saudi prince’s connection to the murder at the time, but a source told the Telegraph she had been advised by aides not…
