In Finding Freedom, the new biography of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, co-authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand revealed the specific moment that led to the downfall of Meghan and Kate. Although Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton “were not at war with each other,” they struggled “to move past extreme courtesy,” an excerpt published in Marie Claire UK has revealed.
However, according to the book, the Duchess of Sussex and the Duchess of Cambridge began dating in 2017, when Meghan and Harry were not yet married.
The beginning of that distant relationship was marked on a day when Meghan and Kate found out they were shopping on the same street.
While the couple could have left Kensington Palace together, Kate decided to drive the opposite way in her Range Rover, leaving Meghan behind.
According to Mr Scobie and Mrs Durand, Kate has not made any attempt to ‘bridge the gap’.
The authors have claimed that when the Duchess first met, Meghan tried to banish Kate by giving her a Smythson notebook, but the book describes the couple as “nothing in common”.
The Duchess of Sussex expected to establish another relationship with Kate, who she expected to give her advice on how to adapt to royal life.
The authors wrote: “But that was not how things turned out.
“Meghan was disappointed that she and Kate were not bound by the position they shared, but she did not lose sleep over it.”
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Ms Nicholl added: “I was sitting behind William and Kate and Meghan and Harry two rows back with other members of the press at that service and there was absolutely a tension between the two couples.
“While Kate turned around to talk to Edward and Sophie Wessex, she just did not recognize Meghan and Harry and that was very obvious.”
Ms Saayeng added: “Finding Freedom notes that Meghan ‘at that time could not fly directly to return to everything that was royal’.”
But the Duchesses were not the only ones who found themselves as the subjects of vicious rumors.
Their husbands, Prince Harry and Prince William, have apparently had a complicated relationship since Harry started dating Meghan seriously.
