Meghan Markle targets Kate Middleton in shock interview with Oprah Winfrey
In the interview with Oprah Winfrey on CBS on March 8, Meghan Marke wanted to re-establish the truth about a conflict that would have opposed Kate Middleton. Which the tabloids had claimed was originally.
The case had caused a stir in the British tabloids: a few days before the marriage of Meghan Markle with Prince Harry, an argument would have opposed the future bride to Kate Middleton. The object of this major diplomatic incident: a disagreement over the outfits worn by the little bridesmaids, which included Princess Charlotte, the daughter of Kate and Prince William. And more precisely, on a dark case of tights. According to an article published in Tatler in May 2020, the Duchess of Cambridge would have burst into tears at the intransigence of Meghan Markle, who preferred that children not wear one. However, the latter revealed to Oprah Winfrey, during the shock interview she granted him on March 8 with Prince Harry, that things did not really go like that.
The high priestess of the American media insisted on carrying out her investigative work to the end: "Did a situation occur during which she (Kate Middleton, Editor's note) could have cried?" Meghan Markle immediately replied: “No, no. The opposite has happened. And I'm not saying that to be disparaging to anyone, because it happened during one of the tough weeks leading up to marriage. She was upset about something, but she admitted her wrongs, and apologized. "
"It hurt me"
The Duchess of Sussex then returned to the details of the case. "A few days before the wedding, she (Kate Middleton, Editor's note) was upset by something relating to - yes, it was about that - relating to the outfits of the little bridesmaids, and that made me cry . It really hit me. ” According to Meghan Markle, the injury was all the more acute because it was unexpected: “I thought that in the context of everything that was going on before the wedding, it made no sense not to behave like everyone else was doing, trying to be supportive, knowing everything that was going on with my dad and the rest ”. Thomas Markle had indeed agreed to stage himself for fake photos stolen by paparazzi, a few days before the wedding, to which he had not been invited.
Meghan Markle, however, was keen not to overwhelm Kate Middleton: "It was not a confrontation, and in fact I do not believe that it is ... I believe that it is not fair to her to enter into the details, because she apologized. " Her future sister-in-law would indeed have made amends, with a bouquet: “She brought me flowers and a little note in which she apologized. She did what I would have done if I had known I had hurt someone, to take responsibility. ”
Unfair treatment
What Meghan Markle found "shocking", on the other hand, was the way the British tabloids relayed the quarrel, arguing that it was at the root of it: "It was hard for me to be blamed, no only for something I hadn't done, but happened to me. "
No one in the royal family would have bothered to stand up for him: “The people who attended our wedding went to our communications teams and said to them: 'I know it didn't happen. product. I don't have to say what really happened. ” The Duchess of Sussex clarified that "everyone within" the institution "knew the truth", and that she hoped that Kate Middleton "would have liked it to be rectified". Taking care, all the same, to add that the Duchess of Cambridge "is a good person".
An impossible reconciliation?
Oprah Winfrey then asked Meghan Markle about the tennis match which the two women attended, at Wimbledon, in July 2019. The duchesses appeared there smiling, in the company of Pippa Middleton, discussing quietly between two sets. Responding to the host who asked her if these images reflected their complicity, and a desire of Kate Middleton to help her sister-in-law to "adjust" to family protocols, Meghan Markle did not wish to enter into the details. And replied sibylline: "What I have understood from the last four years is that nothing is really what it looks." What shed new light on all the times, where, from the balcony of Buckingham Palace to the famous procession of discord just a year ago, the two women appeared together. And spoil the image, so far exemplary, of the Duchess of Cambridge.
