Kate Middleton is shutting down rumors that she and Meghan Markle fought over bridesmaids’ tights before the royal wedding
by Mikhaila Friel
- The Duchess of Cambridge has denied a report that claimed she and the Duchess of Sussex had a “row” at the royal wedding rehearsal.
- A source who claims to be close to Kate Middleton told Tatler that the royal ladies had an argument over whether the bridesmaids would wear tights at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
- This comes after months of speculation over the pair’s relationship.
- A Kensington Palace spokesperson told Insider: “This story contains a swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentations which were not put to Kensington Palace prior to publication.”
- However, Tatler says that Kensington Palace was aware of the story before it was published.
- “Kensington Palace knew we were running the ‘Catherine the Great’ cover months ago and we asked them to work together on it. The fact they are denying they ever knew is categorically false,” a spokesperson for the publication told Insider.
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Kate Middleton has shut down a Tatler article that claims she and Meghan Markle had a fight over bridesmaids’ tights before the royal wedding.
The Duchess of Cambridge is featured on the cover of the magazine’s July/August issue, accompanied by interviews with royal sources and family friends.
One anonymous source, who the publication cites as a friend of the Cambridges’, told the publication: “Then there was an incident at the wedding rehearsal.
“It was a hot day and apparently there was a row over whether the bridesmaids should wear tights or not. Kate, following protocol, felt that they should. Meghan didn’t want them to,” they added.
“The photographs suggest that Meghan won,” wrote Tatler’s Anna Pasternak.
“Kate, who has impeccable manners, sought the opportunity to put Meghan in her place, reprimanding her for speaking imperiously to her Kensington Palace staff,” she added.
Markle’s bridesmaids included: Princess Charlotte (Middleton’s daughter), Florence van Cutsem (Prince Harry’s goddaughter), Remi Litt and Rylan Litt (Markle’s goddaughters), Ivy Mulroney (daughter of Markle’s friend Jessica Mulroney), and Zalie Warren (Prince Harry’s goddaughter).
In a statement obtained by Insider, a Kensington Palace spokesperson said: “This story contains a swathe of inaccuracies and false misrepresentations which were not put to Kensington Palace prior to publication.”
However, Tatler says that Kensington Palace was aware of the story before it was published.
A spokesperson for the publication told Insider: “Tatler’s Editor-in-Chief Richard Dennen stands behind the reporting of Anna Pasternak and her sources.
“Kensington Palace knew we were running the ‘Catherine the Great’ cover months ago and we asked them to work together on it. The fact they are denying they ever knew is categorically false,” they added.
Another family friend who spoke to the publication said that Markle and Harry were “selfish” to resign from their royal duties.
“Meghan and Harry have been so selfish. William and Catherine really wanted to be hands-on parents and the Sussexes have effectively thrown their three children under a bus. There goes their morning school runs as the responsibilities on them now are enormous,” they said.
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