Like most major sporting events in Los Angeles, Tuesday night’s World Series game between the host Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays lured a menagerie of celebrities, among them were Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
But after the two were shown in their front row seats along the first-base line on the official Major League Baseball broadcast and photos began circulating on social media, some were aghast to see both wearing Los Angeles Dodgers hats
Especially Harry, who, while having relinquished his His Royal Highness and military titles, is still a member of royal lineage and remains fifth in line for the British crown after his brother, Prince William, and his three children. Canada is a sovereign country, but is one of 56 Commonwealth nations with historic links back to the U.K. and making the ruling British monarch the official head of state.
“His father is the King of Canada and this court jester has a Dodgers hat on… absolutely shameful,” deputy chief of staff for the Ontario premier Doug Ford’s office,
, resharing MLB’s photo of the couple on X.
Andrew MacDougall, once the head of communications for former prime minister Stephen Harper, said it was “thick as mince” — an old British expression to mean an unintelligent idea — because the “song of the King of Canada” should cheer for the Canadian team.
“It’s a better/cuter media story if you’re off side with your wife,”
Ben Woodfine, a former director of communications for Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre, accused them of
“dodging duty and responsibility.”
The stars are out at the World Series in LA 🤩 pic.twitter.com/rxpSCV0uJh
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 29, 2025
“I can’t think of what’s worse, betraying your father’s Dominion or cheering for the dodgers,” independent journalist
on MLB’s photo of the couple on X.
“The son of our King in a Dodgers hat … Great,”
, who works in Canada’s parliament as an executive assistant for Alberta member of parliament Blaine Calkins.
“Shouldn’t he be rooting for Toronto,”
, host of
Dan Arnold, chief strategy officer at Ottawa-based Pollara Strategic Insights and a former pollster for prime minister Justin Trudeau, remarked that Harry’s fashion choice left the door open for his older brother to score some public relations points in Canada.
“I’m not one to encourage passive aggressive infighting in the royal family, but William is one insta post in a Jays cap away from the ultimate troll job,”
Other commentators on the photo called out Markle for having donned Jays gear in the past. Markle lived in Toronto for parts of seven years while filming the television series Suits, which she left upon her engagement to Harry in 2017.
“Meghan used to support Toronto…” retired CBC journalist
in reply to Associated Press reporter Greg Beachham’s photo on X of the couple appearing on the stadium’s big screen. He added an undated photo of her wearing a Jays hat.
Meghan used to support Toronto…. pic.twitter.com/FKVpu9lrHO
— Simon Dingley Media (@SimonDingleyTV) October 29, 2025
Podcast host Nancy Sidley also shared undated photos of Markle in a Toronto hat and suggested their photo opportunity in an L.A. hat “jinxed the Dodgers,” who would go on to lose 6-2.
Harry & Meghan jinxed the Dodgers for a photo op! #TodgerFans #DodgersGotMarkled #Dodgers #MeghanMarkleHatesTheDodgers pic.twitter.com/8Imvuwol1P
— Nancy Sidley (@nancytsidley) October 29, 2025
Tara Greene of Toronto, meanwhile, called Markle a “traitor.”
“She got sorta famous for acting in Suits in Toronto, where she lives for 7 years and became a millionaire which led to her meeting Harry,”
Even Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley chimed in with a jab.
“The Masters of public relations Harry and Meghan endear themselves to Canadian Jays fans from Coast to Coast,” he wrote from
The couple and their then-infant son Archie moved to Los Angeles, Markle’s hometown, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and around the time they stepped away from senior roles in the monarchy.
Markle’s Dodgers fandom isn’t well documented online, but she has been photographed wearing the team’s hats on occasion — including
during the wildfires earlier this year
— and
a website dedicated to her style
promotes a blue and green version.
But the celeb couple may have extra reason to support the Jays’ opponents in the Fall Classic: Markle is very likely a distant relative of Dodgers’ shortstop Mookie Betts.
According to a 2018 story in the Boston Globe,
, an amateur genealogist discovered that the ball player’s great-great-grandfather, Joseph Betts, and Markle’s great-great-great-grandfather, Jacob Betts, both lived on the same Alabama plantation in the 1800s and are believed to be descendants of an Elisha Betts.
He also uncovered a 1920 marriage between Betts’ great uncle and Markle’s great-great aunt.
The two met in 2019 while Betts was playing for the Red Sox, as reported by
