{"id":152169,"date":"2018-09-24T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/?p=152169"},"modified":"2018-09-24T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:50:21","slug":"serena-williams-says-the-royal-wedding-was-a-monumental-day-for-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/la-showbiz\/serena-williams-says-the-royal-wedding-was-a-monumental-day-for-african-americans-152169","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams says the Royal Wedding was a &#8216;monumental day for African Americans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams has opened up about her friendship with Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis player, who has known the Duchess of Sussex since 2014, attended Meghan&#8217;s wedding to Prince Harry on May 19 at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from it being her dear friend&#8217;s wedding, Serena has since described the Royal Wedding as a &#8220;monumental day for for African Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Project, the mother-of-one said, &#8220;I felt like it was just really, we were literally watching history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RqOwtw_ZVMI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I feel like in a few years we&#8217;ll look back at that moment and it&#8217;s just going to be so historic, that it&#8217;s going to be something people never forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Serena also opened up about the intense media scrutiny that comes with being famous, and admitted that she and Meghan have been\u00a0&#8220;relying on each other a lot lately&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has had a tough time as of late,\u00a0following her loss at the 2018 U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qvy0d_65aKU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sports star lost to 20-year-old Naomi Osaka, but before that, Serena got into a heated argument with the court&#8217;s umpire Carlos Ramos, which led to her calling out sexism on the tennis court.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Meghan, Serena said, &#8220;We were actually just texting each other this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have known each other for a long time. We really are relying on each other a lot lately.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tennis star is good friends with Meghan Markle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":141687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4155],"tags":[1134,6553,1410],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-30-at-20.02.13.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}