Kate is seen for the first time since release of Harry's memoirs

2023-01-11

Princess of Wales is seen for the first time since release of Harry’s memoirs: Kate emerges after Duke shared text messages between her and Meghan and accused her of ‘stereotyping’ his wife

Kate is seen fore the first time since Harry’s memoir Spare was published
Duke of Sussex shared texts between her and Meghan over bridesmaid dresses
He also accused Kate of ‘stereotyping’ Meghan in interview with Tom Bradby
The prince’s explosive book contains slew of jaw-dropping attacks on royals

A stern-faced Princess Kate has been seen out in public today for the first time since Prince Harry made a slew of claims about her fractious relationship with Meghan in his bombshell memoir.

The Duke of Sussex has given his first full account of the infamous bridesmaid dress fitting at the heart of ‘Megxit’, claiming Princess Charlotte ‘cried when she tried it on at home’ and insisting the incident was driven by his sister-in-law Kate, who appeared irritated that it had taken Meghan a day to get back to her about the problem.

The disagreement between the two women was, he claims, further exacerbated by Kate’s unwillingness to visit Meghan’s tailor at Kensington Palace and suggestions that they hold a party for the page boys when his bride-to-be was busy dealing with a row with her father, Thomas Markle.

Harry also used an incendiary interview with ITV journalist, and old friend, Tom Bradby to accuse Kate of ‘stereotyping’ Meghan, saying it was causing a ‘barrier’ to his family and preventing them from ‘welcoming her in’.

Asked what he meant, he said: ‘Well, American actress, divorced, biracial, there’s – there’s all different parts to that and what that can mean but if you are, like a lot of my family do, if you are reading the press, the British tabloids, [Yeah] at the same time as living the life, then there is a tendency where you could actually end up living in the tabloid bubble rather than the actual reality.’

A stern-faced Princess Kate has been seen out in public today for the first time since Prince Harry made a slew of claims in his bombshell memoir

Prince Harry has claimed the Princess of Wales was among the members of his family who ‘stereotyped’ his wife Meghan Markle. The royal wives pictured in June 2018

Meghan was previously married to American TV producer Trevor Engelson for three years from 2011 until 2014.

Before meeting Harry, Meghan had starred in US legal drama series Suits in which she played paralegal-turned-lawyer Rachel Zane.

Bradby said that Harry saw his brother’s wife as ‘the sister you never had’, with the pair having known each other since soon after William and Kate started dating in 2003.

The pair are believed to have gotten on well, with Harry joining her and William on engagements before he met Meghan – although he told Bradby that whilst the events were ‘fun’, he sometimes felt ‘slightly awkward’ being the ‘third wheel’.

Harry also said the idea of himself, his wife and the Prince and Princess of Wales being the ‘fab four’ was ‘something the British press created’ and it ‘creates competition’.

He told Bradby: ‘The idea of the four of us being together was always a hope for me.

‘Before it was Meghan, whoever it was going to be, I always hoped that the four of us would get on.

‘But very quickly it became Meghan versus Kate.

‘And that, when it plays out so publicly, you can’t hide from that, right? Especially when within my family you have the newspapers laid out pretty much in every single palace and house that is around.’

Harry added that his brother William ‘raised some concerns’ about his marriage to Meghan before their wedding in May 2018.

He said: ‘He never tried to dissuade me from marrying Meghan, but he aired some concerns very early, and said ‘this is going to be really hard for you’ and I still to this day don’t truly understand which part of what he was talking about.

‘Maybe he predicted what the British press’s reaction was going to be.’

It comes as Harry gives his first account of the bridesmaid dress fitting row between Kate and Meghan that deepened the rift between the two women and helped fuel Megxit.

Kate and Meghan exchanged a series of texts (re-created, above) about the bridesmaid dress, according to Harry

Pictured: Princess Charlotte in her bridesmaid dress after the Sussex wedding in 2018

The Princess of Wales and Duchess of Cambridge pictured attending the Wimbledon women’s singles final together in 2019

Harry claims William and Kate ‘stereotyping’ Meghan as a ‘biracial American actress’ meant she was not welcomed as a Royal

The prince writes that Meghan received a text from Kate four days before their wedding saying there was a problem with the dresses for the bridesmaids and they needed altering.

They were ‘French couture’ and had been hand-sewn from measurements only – without a fitting – so ‘it wasn’t a big shock’ that they might not fit perfectly, he says.

Harry writes: ‘Meg didn’t reply to Kate straight away. Yes, she had endless wedding-related texts, but mostly she was dealing with the chaos surrounding her father. So the next morning she texted Kate that our tailor was standing by.’

She told her that his name was Ajay and he was ‘at the palace’.

‘This wasn’t sufficient,’ Harry goes on to write darkly.

After setting up a time to speak later that afternoon, Harry writes that Kate complained: ‘Charlotte’s dress is too big, too long, too baggy. She cried when she tried it on a home.’

Meghan snapped back: ‘Right, and I told you the tailor has been standing by since 8am. Here. At KP. Can you take Charlotte to have it altered, as the other mums are doing?’

According to Harry’s version of events, Kate replied: ‘No, all the dresses need to be remade.’ And said she had discussed the issue with her ‘own wedding designer’ who agreed.

Harry writes: ‘Meg asked if Kate was aware of what was going on right now. With her father. Kate said she was well aware, but the dresses. And the wedding is in four days!’

‘Yes, Kate, I know….’ his fiancée replied sharply.

He also claims that his sister-in-law had ‘problems with the way Meg was planning her wedding. Something about a party for the page boys? It went back and forth’.

The prince reports his wife as saying: ‘I’m not sure what else to say. If the dress doesn’t fit then please take Charlotte to see Ajay. He’s been waiting all day.’

‘Fine’, Kate is said to have replied.

Harry states that he arrived home a short time later, which suggests that he and his ghost writer were given an account of the actual conversation by Meghan, to find his fiancée ‘on the floor sobbing’.

While he says he was ‘horrified’ to see her so upset, he didn’t think it a catastrophe as emotions were understandably high. He told Meghan that ‘Kate hadn’t meant any harm’.

Prince Harry told Tom Bradby that he felt ‘slightly awkward’ being a ‘third wheel’ to Prince William and Kate Middleton before meeting Meghan Markle. The trio pictured in 2012

In his new memoir, Prince Harry said William and Kate were ‘religious viewers of Suits’. Pictured: the Duchess of Sussex playing Rachel Zane in 2012

He suggests his point was proved when the then Duchess of Cambridge came round the next morning with flowers and a card to say sorry. Harry makes a point of writing that Meghan’s best friend, Lindsay, was in the kitchen when she turned up as if to suggest he can prove his version of events.

There have been several different versions over the years of who made whom cry. It was initially claimed that Meghan made Kate weep, a suggestion that so incensed the Sussexes they went to war with their press office and demanded they put out a correction. When officials refused, saying it would spark more questions about the incident and set a precedent for speaking about private family matters, the couple decreed that it was another example of how the palace was unwilling to stand up for them.

Indeed, it was one of the first issues to be tackled by Meghan in her Oprah interview, with Harry subsequently insisting in their Netflix docuseries last month that it demonstrated how the institution was willing to lie to protect his brother but not tell the truth for them.

He was at it again today in his Good Morning America interview when asked for examples of how the palace put a negative spotlight onto Meghan in order to protect other royals.

Harry told the interviewer: ‘It’s so petty but the bridesmaids’ dresses. While I was writing the book we were on version 29 or 30, all of which involved my wife supposedly making numerous people within my family cry which simply wasn’t the case. For historical reference the truth needs to be there and it needs to come from me.’

However sources have continued to suggest that Meghan was being difficult and that Kate went round with flowers not to ‘apologise’ but as a ‘classy’ gesture to ‘keep the peace’.

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