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."
Harry wrote that Kate used the same flowers in her wedding that a British tabloid claimed had put Princess Charlotte's life at risk during Meghan and Harry's 2018 nuptials.
Shortly after announcing their lawsuits against four British tabloids, Harry said he felt "energized by a ghastly story in The Express."
The October 2019 story claimed that the flower crowns Meghan's flower girls wore during her and Prince Harry's May 2018 wedding contained lilies of the valley. Harry noted that the flowers can be poisonous to children — if they eat them.
"Even then, the reaction would be discomfort, concerning to parents, but only in the rarest cases would such a thing be fatal," Harry wrote. "Never mind that an official florist put together these crowns. Never mind that it wasn't Meg who made this 'dangerous decision.' Never mind that previous royal brides, including Kate and my mother, had also used lilies of the valley."
"Never mind all that. The story of Meghan the Murderess was just too good," he continued. "An accompanying photo showed my poor little niece wearing her crown, face contorted in a paroxysm of agony, or a sneeze. Alongside this photo was a shot of Meg looking sublimely unconcerned about the imminent death of this angelic child."
Harry partially blames William and Kate for his poor decision to wear a Nazi costume
In Spare, Harry says that the dress code for the costume party (also attended by William and Kate) was a “native and colonial” theme, Us Weekly reports. As time ran out to search for a costume, he searched for something to wear in a place that goes unnamed in the leaked excerpts. “I went up and down the rows, sifting through the racks, seeing nothing I liked,” he writes. “With time running out I narrowed my options to two. A British pilot’s uniform. And a sand-colored Nazi uniform. With a swastika armband. And a flat cap.”
He goes on, “I phoned Willy and Kate, asked what they thought. Nazi uniform, they said. I rented it, plus a silly mustache, and went back to the house. I tried it all on. They both howled.”
This is not the first time it’s been reported that William may have had some involvement in Harry’s outfit choice. The author Robert Lacey wrote in his 2020 book Battle of Brothers that “Harry chose his costume in conjunction with his elder brother,” and that “Harry resented the fact that William got away so lightly.” Some have speculated that the incident, which Harry has never lived down, could be the root of some bitterness toward his brother and sister-in-law.
Prince Harry and Kate Middleton reunited at Prince Philip's funeral
For a good chunk of time, Prince Harry was always trailing Prince William and Kate Middleton — he was the third wheel, to put it bluntly, but all of that changed when Meghan Markle joined his side. So it was quite the sight when Harry, William, and Kate reunited for the first time since Harry's departure to the United States. The three joined each other during the funeral proceedings for Prince Philip, who passed away in April 2021, and it seemed to go better between them than anticipated.
According to Harper's Bazaar, William and Kate made a point of "chatting and walking" with Harry, and they all seemed to be in "good spirits for the reunion." The three even went to a private funeral wake held for Philip at Windsor Castle shortly after the public ceremony — what we wouldn't give to have overheard those conversations. Of course, Meghan didn't join Harry as she was expecting their second child, so it was just the original three who made the event. With so much having happened between them, it's a wonder what Kate and Harry said to one another.
Boda real de Harry y Meghan: tradición inglesa y expectación mediática
El príncipe Harry de Inglaterra, nieto de la reina Isabel II, y su prometida, la estadounidense Meghan Markle, se casarán el próximo 19 de mayo en la capilla de San Jorge del castillo de Windsor, la residencia de fin de semana de la soberana británica a las afueras de Londres.
El enlace viene marcado por el aura de pareja poco convencional que rodea el regio enlace: son famosas las salidas de tono del príncipe Harry, pero su paso por el ejército parece haber endurecido el carácter de un díscolo adolescente que perdió a su madre en un trágico accidente de coche.
Por su parte, Meghan Markle, actriz estadounidense de origen afroamericano, parecía que de entrada lo tenía más difícil que Kate Middleton, ya que tuvieron que pasar cinco años para que ésta entrara en el palacio de Buckingham -a pesar de que la duquesa de Cambridge estudió en la misma escuela de William y Harry y es británica- así que muchos pensaron que Meghan Markle, que afronta su segundo matrimonio, lo tendría peor.
Si quieres conocer en profundidad la vida del príncipe Harry justo antes del gran enlace, no te pierdas “Cuatro bodas y un funeral”, estreno el martes 15 de mayo a las 22:50 en National Geographic.