The Truth About Their Feud

PALACE PLOT! THE REAL STORY BEHIND PRINCESS KATE AND MEGHAN MARKLE'S SEVEN-YEAR WAR

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They were pitted against each other almost from the start. Not long after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their engagement, the British press stepped up its racially tinged coverage of the American actress by comparing her to the last “commoner” to join the royal family: Prince William’s wife, Kate. Multiple headlines attacked Meghan over supposed egregious breaches of protocol — from eating avocados to wearing wedge heels — for which Kate had once been applauded. Then, in November 2018, the press got wind of an actual feud. After The Sun reported, “Meghan Made Kate Cry,” on its cover, the Fab Four had a crisis meeting. “Kate got things rolling straightaway by acknowledging that the stories in the papers about Meg making her cry were totally false,” Harry wrote in Spare, noting that the opposite was true. “We shifted from what to do about the story to where it came from. Who could have planted such a thing? Who could have leaked it to the press in the first place?” Finally, he wrote, William “conceded” that “he and Kate had gone to dinner with Pa and Camilla...and alas, he said sheepishly, he might've let it slip.... So now we knew.”

It was far from the first time Harry had suspected his father — and to a greater extent, his stepmother — of pulling strings to sway public opinion. “Camilla is always looking out for herself first,” says an insider, revealing shocking new details behind the queen's “twisted” plots against her perceived rivals.

“Kate and Meghan made good targets. Quite simply, if the princesses were constantly at war, then anything negative out there about her and Charles would be of limited interest,” adds the insider. “Kate and Meghan never had a chance.”

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