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Ekin Karasin

Fans' fury as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle given best seats at World Series over US sporting legends

LA Dodgers fans were left infuriated over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle being given the best seats in the house at the World Series over local sporting legends.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex wore matching blue Dodgers caps as they sat in the front row at game four on Tuesday night, with Fox’s TV cameras regularly zooming in on the duo and showing them on the big screens.

The couple - who moved to Los Angeles in 2020 - had seats worth tens of thousands of dollars right behind the pitch clock, while sporting stars like Magic Johnson and Sandy Koufax were in the second row.

Koufax is a four-time World Series winner and Hall of Fame pitcher and NBA legend Johnson is a part owner of the Dodgers.

Fans flooded social media to share their disbelief over the icons being relegated to the second row.

Prince Harry and his wife sitting IN FRONT of Sandy Koufax? Un-fn-real,” one wrote on X.

Meghan sat directly in front of Sandy Koufax (Getty Images)

“Why the hell are they in front of Sandy?” another asked and a third posted: “They need to leave.”

“Magic Johnson is royalty,” someone else said of the basketball star, who became part owner of the Lakers, Dodgers and Washington Commanders after retiring.

The Major League Baseball official Instagram account posted a clip of Harry and Meghan greeting fans as they walked to their sought-after seats before the game while flanked by security.

It is not known if they paid for the front row or if they were invited as VIPs by the team.

Other stars seen in the stands at the game were James Marsden, Austin Butler, Tobey Maguire and Sydney Sweeney.

Harry and Meghan moved to California in 2020 and share two children - Archie and Lilibet.

Their appearance at the World Series comes just days after it was revealed yet another member of staff has stopped working for the Sussexes amid a mass exodus over the past few years.

The couple’s publicist and director of communications Emily Robinson has parted ways with them. She was the tenth person to be hired as Meghan’s publicist in just five years.

Robinson left her role as a publicist for Netflix’s The Crown series to join Team Sussex in June, but just weeks into her appointment, the Sussexes were the subject of a media storm.

Meghan came under fire for calling herself “Her Royal Highness” and her Netflix cookery show, With Love, Meghan.

Her Confessions of a Female Founder podcast also suffered a serious dip in ratings, and her lifestyle brand As Ever failed to take off as hoped.

At the time, six employees reportedly left in mysterious circumstances in what was dubbed as “a purge” of the Duke and Duchess’s personnel.

They included two sacked directors of communication Charlie Gipson and Kyle Boulia, head of operations Lianne Cashin, and Archewell employee Deesha Tank.

The head of content for Meghan’s Instagram account was also reported to have left after the Duchess shared her now infamous twerking video.

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball with the LA Dodgers taking on the Blue Jays this year.

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