Sign of trouble to come?

It seems the world will have to stay calm and carry on without Prince Harry and Prince William ever getting close again, or their wives Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton posing for the girl photos at Wimbledon.

The brothers’ once inseparable bond was strained during the first two years of Harry’s marriage to Meghan Markle, and numerous reports say Meghan and Kate Middleton never got along, probably because they have very different personalities and approaches to public life. Observers now fear that the publication of a revealing book about Harry and Meghan’s struggles to break free from the royal family may have destroyed that bond forever.

“A lot of damage has been done,” Omid Scobie, co-author of “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and The Making of a Modern Royal Family,” said in an interview with People about the tensions between the two couples.

But it’s possible that the couples’ differences, and how these differences influenced their eventual disagreement, were apparent when the couples first met at Kensington Palace in early 2017. The differences between Meghan and Kate may have been as of yet. most evident in the gift of Meghan brought to that meeting as a friendship offering to her future sister-in-law.

The gift was a leather-bound Symthson journal, People reported. Meghan brought Kate the gift for her 35th birthday. Magazines from luxury retail brand Bond Street for $ 60 to $ 300.

But at the time, The Sun also reported that the notebook was specifically a “dream diary,” presumably for the Duchess of Cambridge to jot down her dreams upon awakening as a way to gain insight into her undreamed-of life. Observers questioned whether a dream journal was the most appropriate gift for Kate, and said it might have been something Meghan, then running her lifestyle blog The Tig, could have chosen for herself.

“Finding Freedom” also relates that first meeting of the future sisters-in-law. Overall, the book is packed with intimate details about situations where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex felt they were unfairly or falsely portrayed in UK tabloid reports. Several of those situations, already quoted in the Sunday Times, involve heir to the throne William and his wife Kate Middleton.

“Finding Freedom” largely confirms some of the most infamous incidents reported by tabloids, even when Meghan and Kate first met. And as “Finding Freedom” and The Sun reported, that first meeting seemed pleasant enough.

Harry had brought his then-girlfriend Meghan to meet Kate in her and William’s apartment at Kensington Palace. Meghan, then better known as an actress in the television legal drama “Suits,” had already met William a couple of months earlier.

The Sun reported that Kate “loved” the newspaper Meghan gave her. “Finding Freedom” confirms that Kate appreciated the diary and the way Meghan lavished attention on Princess Charlotte.

But “Finding Freedom” points out that there were already underlying tensions between couples. William had previously expressed concern to Harry about moving too quickly in his relationship with Meghan. It may be that the future King William knew that most people are not suited to the intense public demands of real life. But Harry was furious that William was being a “snob” about his girlfriend, a biracial divorcee who grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles and who had searched for Hollywood celebrities.

“Finding Freedom” also reported that Meghan had trouble bonding with Kate, who is an “extremely cautious person” and who maintains a close-knit group of friends. Kate also became known for taking the “never complain, never explain” approach to her royal duties.

But early in her romance with Harry, Meghan expected Kate, who also hailed from a non-aristocratic background, to come up to her and give her advice on how to deal with real life.

“That was not how things turned out,” the book said. Another source told Scobie and Durand that Kate felt that she and Meghan did not have much in common “other than the fact that they lived at Kensington Palace.”

But it seems that observers in 2017 predicted future tensions by seeing something outside of Meghan’s dream diary gift to Kate. For one, a dream journal comes loaded with high expectations about the recipient and expectations about how it will be used, observers said.

Vanity Fair writers Josh Duboff and Julie Miller, in a 2017 edition of their podcast “In the Limelight,” said the gift meant Kate would be concerned with reflecting on her dreams to better understand her emotions, ideas, aspirations and in general Mental well-being.

Duboff and Miller further said that the “bohemian” gift sounded like something Meghan would buy for her. At that time, Meghan filled her Instagram feed with self-actualizing aphorisms.

Meghan was also reluctant to take the “never complain, never explain” approach in real life. Before she and Harry announced in January that they were straying from real life, she said she was having trouble keeping her British “stiff upper lip.”