Dress-gate continues.
Prince Harry claims Kate Middleton privately admitted the tabloids got it wrong in reporting that Meghan Markle made her cry over Princess Charlotte’s flower girl dress in 2018.
“Kate got things rolling straightaway by acknowledging that these stories in the papers about Meg making her cry were totally false,” the Duke of Sussex writes in his just-released memoir, “Spare.”
Recalling a “summit” he and Markle had with Prince William and Middleton that December, Harry alleges the Princess of Wales confessed, “‘I know, Meghan, that I was the one who made you cry.‘”
Harry recalls feeling relieved, noting, “Meg appreciated the apology, but wanted to know why the paper had said this, and what was being done to correct them? In other words: Why isn’t your office standing up for me?”
The California-based prince claims his sister-in-law became “flustered” and his brother “chimed in with some very supportive-sounding evasions.”
“But I already knew the truth,” he writes. “No one at the Palace could phone the correspondent, because that would invite the inevitable retort: Well if the story’s wrong, what’s the real story?”
Harry says he realized that would not ever happen because the future queen could not be embarrassed by her less-than-gracious behavior — plus, “the monarchy, always at all costs, had to be protected.”
Eventually, the quartet began to parse over how the story had leaked, and William, now 40, eventually admitted that while Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, were on a royal tour in Australia, he and Middleton, also 41, had gone to dinner at King Charles III’s home, according to Harry’s side of the story.
“He said sheepishly, he might’ve let it slip that there’d been strife between the two couples,” he writes, accusing his father, 74, of leaking the story to the press.
The “Suits” alum first brought up the incorrect reporting during her and Harry’s explosive 2021 sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, explaining that she was the one brought to tears by her sister-in-law ahead of her wedding and not the other way around.
The renegade royal goes into even greater detail in his book over the tiff between the women of Windsor.
He writes that Middleton texted Markle days before their nuptials about a “problem” with Charlotte’s dress.
When Markle replied that a tailor was waiting at the palace to perform alterations, Middleton allegedly refused to go and instead wanted all six of the flower girl dresses remade four days before the wedding.
Middleton eventually agreed to visit the tailor, but damage had been done.
Harry writes that he later found Markle in tears “on the floor” following the text exchange. The following day, he alleges, Middleton came over with a bouquet of flowers and a card as an apology.
Buckingham Palace has declined to comment on “Spare,” but royal author Tom Bower told Page Six exclusively that Middleton is “outraged and hurt” by her brother-in-law’s book.
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