Producer’s snub rebuke leaves Meghan Markle and David Foster on frosty terms
Meghan Markle and David Foster just hit an icy patch, with a public snub stirring fresh questions — and you’ll want to know why.
At the recent David Foster and Friends Foundation event, cameras caught David Foster walking past Meghan Markle and Prince Harry without a red-carpet hello. Foster later told People he’d already greeted the couple about 10 minutes earlier, pushing back on talk of a snub. The explanation hasn’t quieted the chatter.
Gossip site reports keep circling back to one touchy subject: politics. According to columnist Rob Shuter’s Naughty But Nice Substack, sources say ideological differences are freezing a once-easy friendship between Markle and Foster.
“There is definitely an icy feeling there now, and politics is part of it, ” a source told Rob Shuter.
Shuter also reports that Meghan was invited to a May fundraiser at Foster and Katharine McPhee’s Brentwood home but didn’t attend. Foster played piano at the house event, while McPhee performed a cheeky rewrite of Tina Turner’s “The Best” for the crowd, per the same report.
Old ties, new tension
Markle and McPhee go back to their Los Angeles school days, and that connection only deepened after the Sussexes moved to North America. Foster grew close with Prince Harry and even helped arrange a private Vancouver Island retreat for Meghan, Harry, and Archie in late 2019, a quiet reset before the couple’s post-royal life fully took shape.
Through the years, the families have been photographed together and appeared publicly at each other’s events, reinforcing an image of tight-knit friends. For now, the only on-the-record pushback is Foster’s brief People comment about the carpet moment; neither side has addressed the politics angle directly.
- Foundation event: Foster passed Meghan and Harry on the carpet; he later said they’d already met minutes earlier (People).
- May in Brentwood: Meghan was reportedly invited to a political fundraiser at Foster and McPhee’s home but didn’t attend (Naughty But Nice).
- Backstory: Foster helped line up the couple’s late-2019 Vancouver Island stay during a pivotal period for the Sussexes.