Prince Harry confided in Kate Middleton more than his step-mother
So it was Kate that Harry reportedly turned to in moments of need, and the two developed a "genuine friendship" while relying on one another for support. Kate was described as Harry's "trusted counsel," and while their time together didn't always consist of deep talks (they were known to watch Game of Thrones together), they had each other's backs.
But as you can imagine, things went downhill pretty quickly, and given the rift between Harry and Prince William, Harry's role as an uncle suffered. As noted by Express, royal authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand assessed in their book, Finding Freedom, that Harry's bond with Prince George and Princess Charlotte suffered as a result of the feud between the brothers. The authors also alleged that Kate was "fiercely loyal" to William, and that even during his feud with Harry, she did "little to diffuse the situation."
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En comparación, el matrimonio del rey Jorge V con la princesa María de Teck (más tarde reina María) hace 125 años en 1893 fue un asunto relativamente tranquilo. La pareja se casó en la Capilla Real en St James's Palace, que apenas tiene capacidad para 100 personas.
Si bien la participación pública y las celebraciones pueden haber cambiado a lo largo de los años, muchas de las tradiciones de las bodas reales han permanecido igual, aunque varían ligeramente de unas a otras.
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La pareja real junto a la primera ministra del Reino Unido, Theresa May.Harry said an "awkward moment" happened at the same event when Meghan asked Kate if she could borrow her lip gloss.
Harry said Meghan forgot her lip gloss for the forum, and while they waited backstage, she asked Kate if she could borrow some of hers.
"Kate, taken aback, when into her bag and reluctantly pulled out a small tube," Harry said. "Meg squeezed some onto her finger and applied it to her lips. Kate grimaced."
"Small clash of styles, maybe? Something we should've been able to laugh about soon after. But it left a little mark," he went on to say of the interaction. "And then the press sensed something was up and tried to turn it into something bigger."
Harry detailed the issue between Kate and Meghan over the flower girl dresses.
After Harry and Meghan's wedding, reports surfaced that Meghan made Kate cry over an issue regarding Princess Charlotte's flower girl dress. Then, during her 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan said Kate actually made her cry.
In "Spare," Harry gave greater insight into the argument, which he said occurred over the phone.
Four days before Harry and Meghan's wedding, Kate texted Meghan to let her know Charlotte's dress didn't fit. Meghan texted back to let her know the tailor was ready to help at Kensington Palace, but that "wasn't sufficient," so she and Kate then spoke on the phone, according to Harry's memoir.
Harry said Kate told Meghan that Charlotte "cried" when she tried on her dress because it was "too big, too long, too baggy." Meghan then asked Kate to come to the palace to have the dress altered.
"No, all the dresses need to be remade," Kate responded, adding that her wedding dress designer agreed with her, according to Harry.
Harry said Meghan then brought up the issues she was having with her father, Thomas Markle, ahead of the wedding, and Kate said she knew what Meghan was dealing with but that the dresses needed to be prioritized.
"Indeed the next morning Kate came by with flowers and a card that said she was sorry," Harry went on to say. "Simple misunderstanding, I told myself."
Harry said that when stories of the argument started to circulate in the press, he, Meghan, William, and Kate gathered to discuss it. During the conversation, he said, "Kate got things rolling straightaway by acknowledging that these stories in the papers about Meg making her cry were totally false. 'I know, Meghan, that I was the one who made you cry.'"
But when Meghan asked why Kate's office wasn't correcting the tabloids, Harry said Kate became "flustered" and "didn't answer."