Meghan Markle’s biographer Omid Scobie claims the Duchess of Sussex demanded her aides to release a statement claiming that Kate Middleton made her cry when trying on a bridesmaid dress.
During her bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, Markle voiced widespread reports that she had “made Kate cry” about her flower girl dresses, saying, “The reverse has happened.”
She insisted her sister-in-law ‘made me cry, and it really hurt me’ for her marriage to Prince Harry – adding that Middleton, the wife of Harry’s brother, Prince William, later apologized: ‘and I have forgiven her. “
In an article for Harper’s Bazaar, Scobie wrote that the couple’s’ annoyance ‘at the Royal Family’s silence over the negative press about them reached a boiling point in January 2020 when Kensington Palace asked Harry to co-sign a statement against a’ offensive ‘newspaper report. who claimed that William had “constantly bullied” them in the run-up to Megxit.
Well, if we just throw out a statement, maybe KP can finally get the facts about me straight [not making Kate cry], ”Meghan emailed an assistant, according to Scobie, who cited a source.
But, as with many of the couple’s requests, her suggestion was ignored. The Duchess of Cambridge, she was told, should never be drawn into idle gossip, ” Scobie, author of the Sussexes’ Finding Freedom biography, wrote in his piece.
“Meghan was repeatedly told that it would not be possible to put things right, despite it being a story fed into a stereotype-laden story,” he wrote.
Other members of the royal family often received more sympathetic support when it came to dealing with inaccurate press (officials even issued a statement denying Kate’s use of Botox in July 2019), but both Harry and Meghan felt that they were not here had access to it. privilege. “