Meghan Markle’s boyfriend was seen laughing at Chris Rock’s show in the digs

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Of Sarah Nathan

March 5, 2023 | 1:26 PM

Janina Gavankar, one of Meghan Markle’s longtime best friends, was at the live taping of Chris Rock’s flagship show on Netflix on Saturday night — and she watches the comedian skewer the Duchess of Sussex, Page Six can reveal.

A staunch supporter of Prince Harry’s wife and a close friend of over 20 years, the “Vampire Diaries” actress was at the Baltimore Racetrack to witness Rock Making History for the streaming service’s first global livestream event.

Sources told Page Six that Javankar, 42, joined her good friend Dave Chappelle backstage to watch the show in the VIP Green Room.

“It looked like Janina was enjoying the show a lot, she was standing near the TV screens and laughing,” an eyewitness told us.

During his set, Rock, 58, teased Oprah Winfrey’s 2021 interview with the Sussexes, in which they famously claimed an unnamed royal raised ‘concerns’ about ‘how dark’ their child might be before the birth of their son, Archie. . The comedian joked that Markle has been dealing with some “people of the law.”

“Like, who is this Meghan Markle girlfriend? She looks like a nice lady – complain. Like, didn’t she win the light skin lottery? Rock said to launch his diatribe before calling the royals “racist OGs.”

Rock has been meticulously honing his routine over the past few months at a string of parties around the country, including at New York’s Radio City Music Hall last October, where he made the same comments about Markle and the royal family. We were told that Gavankar had been to previous shows so she knew what to expect.

Javankar joined a number of big names at Saturday’s screening, including director Spike Lee and his wife Tonya Lewis Lee, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, author Nelson George, storytellers Darnell Rollins, Sam Gaye and actor Stephen Hill, to name a few alongside Arsenio Hall, David Spade and former “Saturday Night Live” stars Leslie Jones and Dana Carvey.

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While talking about Markle, Rock put down a high-pitched voice to mock the Duke and Duchess.

She moans, I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? They are so racist, they wanted to know how brown a kid would be.

“I’m like, ‘This isn’t racist,’ because ‘Black people want to know what a brown kid will be like, too.'” St. Let’s check behind their ears.”

Rock also joked that Markle “acted so stupid” like she didn’t know anything.

“(She was) Go on Oprah (and) “I had no idea how racist they were,” she said. This is the royal family, right? They are the original racists. They invented colonialism, she said on stage, adding, “They invested in slavery like it was a shark tank.”

Rock later claimed he knew what Markle was “going through,” saying, “I know her dilemma: A black girl trying to be accepted by her white in-laws.”

He continued: “Oh, it’s hard. It’s very hard, it’s very hard, but it’s not as hard as a white girl trying to be accepted by her black relatives. It’s really hard now!”

Javankar was a guest at the Sussex wedding in May 2018. She also appeared on British television after the royal family responded to Oprah’s interview saying ‘Recollections may vary’ about the couple’s claims about their hellish time behind palace walls .

Speaking on ‘This Morning’, Javankar responded to the family’s allegations that he was unaware of the full extent of Meghan’s struggles when she was an active member of the royal family.

“Although ‘their memories may differ,’ ours are not because we experienced them with them,” Javankar said, directly quoting the palace statement. “And there are a lot of emails and messages to support that.”