UK police probe ‘racist’ package sent to Harry and Meghan
LONDON — Police are investigating a suspicious package that was sent to Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle as a racist hate crime, Scotland Yard said Thursday.
The Metropolitan Police force said “a package containing a substance” was delivered to St. James’s Palace, where Harry has his office, on Feb. 12.
The force said the substance “was tested and confirmed as non-suspicious.”
The force said counterterrorism detectives are investigating the incident as an alleged malicious communication offence, “and it is being treated as a racist hate crime.”