Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle aren’t exactly the best of friends.
The two had what was described as a great relationship once the former Suits star entered the royal family. However, things turned sour quite fast, and today, Kate and Meghan don’t speak at all.Meghan Markle took on a whole different job when she entered the royal family. The former Suits star was very popular at first, but when she and Harry left, her popularity, not strangely, plummeted.
At the time Meghan began her royal duties, Prince William and Kate Middleton were the most popular between the two couples. However, it turned out that the public had an overwhelmingly positive reaction to her – and according to a royal expert, William and Kate didn’t like it.
When Meghan Markle entered the royal family, everything changed. Prince Harry had hoped that his girlfriend and later wife would become best friends with his sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, and at first, it appeared like it could have been a match made in heaven.
Meghan Markle – relationship with Kate Middleton
Authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand claim in their book Finding Freedom that the two were not exactly feuding at the start. According to them, the two royals just didn’t know each other well enough.
“Meghan would agree with the assessment that the duchesses were not the best of friends,” they wrote. “Their relationship hadn’t progressed much since [Markle] was Harry’s girlfriend.”
Moreover, Durand and Scobie added that Kate didn’t make a significant effort to welcome Markle into the family, at least not in the way people might have expected.
Meghan had hoped that Kate would take her under her wing and guide her through all the new things that someone coming from “outside to the Firm” should know. But the authors claim that never happened.
“Meghan was disappointed that she and Kate hadn’t bonded over the position they shared, but she wasn’t losing sleep over it,” Durand and Scobie wrote in Finding Freedom, adding that “Meghan would far rather have had Kate check in on her during the most difficult times with the press.”
“That was surprising to me”
In their Netflix show, Meghan Markle recalled her first meeting with Kate Middleton — and it wasn’t the most successful.
“When Will and Kate came over, and I met her for the first time, they came over for dinner, I remember I was in ripped jeans, and I was barefoot,” Meghan recalled.
“I was a hugger. I’ve always been a hugger, I didn’t realize that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.”
She continued, “I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside. There is a forward-facing way of being, and then you close the door and go ‘You can relax now’, but that formality carries over on both sides. And that was surprising to me.”
Before Harry and Meghan’s wedding, things heated up between Kate and Meghan. She stated that Kate Middleton had made her cry over the flower girl dresses on her wedding day, which directly contradicted earlier claims made by the tabloids.
“It really hurt my feelings. It was a really hard week of the wedding. And she was upset about something, but she owned it, and she apologized. And she brought me flowers and a note, apologizing,” Meghan said.
