Prince Harry opens up about his wife and Kate’s argument
“Meghan was sobbing on the ground”
Prince Harry’s explosive biography “Reserve” will be released this Tuesday. The Duke of Sussex also tells how and why his wife Meghan Markle and his sister-in-law Princess Kate completely fell out.
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The meeting between Princess Kate, then Duchess, and Meghan Markle was under a bad star right from the start. At a joint appearance in 2018, everything was still fine.
Berit-Silja GründlersEditor People
In “Reserve”, in the original “Spare”, Prince Harry (38) writes the frustration of his life from the soul. The youngest son of the British King Charles III. (73) leaves neither his defloration nor the devastating rift between him and his brother Prince William (40).
In the chapter about the days and hours before his wedding to Meghan Markle (41), the renegade royal draws a picture full of stress, arguments and disappointments and also goes into how the Duchess of Sussex came to be with her sister-in-law Princess Kate (42) completely thrown over.
Princess Kate was the trigger of the dispute
The relationship between the Princess of Wales and Meghan Markle was difficult from the start. When they met, there were misunderstandings about the fashion contacts, later there was an argument because Prince Harry’s wife asked Kate, who was pregnant at the time, about her hormones.
The dispute between the women escalated four days before the wedding. The trigger: Neither Mama Kate nor the little princess liked Charlotte’s dress (7). “Charlotte’s dress is too wide, too long, too baggy. She cried when she tried it on at home.”
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A war of words ensued between the women. Meghan was stressed, Kate also expressed a lot of criticism of the organization of the wedding. Harry describes it this way in ‘Reserve’: ‘A short while later I got home to find Meg on the floor. Sobbing.” Although he was shocked to see his fiancé at the time, he didn’t take the situation too seriously: “Of course, the feelings went up after the stress of the past week, the past month, the past day. It was unbearable – but passed. Kate didn’t mean it badly, I told her.”
The beginning of the end
The then Duchess of Cambridge appeared to Meghan Markle the next day to apologize. With a bouquet of flowers.
In the press, the events surrounding Princess Charlotte’s dress and a crying duchess were then twisted, Meghan made Kate cry, writes Prince Harry and reports of a “summit meeting” at which William and his wife apologized but didn’t want to correct false stories “because that would embarrass the future queen”.
Prince Harry describes this situation as the beginning of the end, as the trigger for countless negative headlines about him and especially his wife Meghan Markle, which ultimately led to the couple fleeing their royal duties and going to the United States.