14-05-2025
Both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle 'Were Crying Their Eyes Out' in Infamous 2018 Argument
Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle's infamous argument over the tailoring of Princess Charlotte's bridesmaid dress for Meghan's 2018 wedding to Prince Harry is back in the news again via a new royal book.
Originally, reports indicated that Meghan made Kate cry, but then Meghan said in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey that the reverse was true.
Tom Quinn's latest book, Yes Ma'am, cites a royal staffer that shared that both women were crying their eyes out over the infamous bridesmaid dress row between Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle is back in the news again, as it is further explained in a new book by a veteran royal biographer.
In Tom Quinn's book Yes Ma'am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants, Quinn wrote that both women cried their eyes out during the disagreement, which centered around the tailoring of Princess Charlotte's bridesmaid dress for Meghan's May 19, 2018 wedding to Prince Harry. Originally, reports were that Meghan made Kate cry; Meghan cleared up in her 2021 interview alongside Harry with Oprah Winfrey that it was Kate that made her cry. Now, it seems, both women were shaken up by the incident, per a royal staffer's account of the dispute in Quinn's new book.
'I can tell you that all the papers and commentators got this wrong,' the staffer said (via Newsweek). 'The truth is that, as with many of these spats between sisters, brothers, or even sisters-in-law, both sides were really upset.'
'The truth is that during the discussions about the bridesmaid's dress, Meghan said a few things she regretted and Kate said a few things she later regretted, but it was all in the heat of the moment,' the staff member added. 'Both women were crying their eyes out!'
The Telegraph reported that 'Kate had only just given birth to Prince Louis and was feeling quite emotional.' (Harry and Meghan married on May 19, less than one month after Louis' birth on April 23.) Meghan said herself while speaking with Winfrey that Kate was 'upset about something,' but later 'owned it' and 'apologized, and she brought me flowers and a note apologizing,' Meghan said. 'I actually think it's—I don't think it's fair to her to get into the details of that, because she apologized, and I've forgiven her.'
'It was a really hard week of the wedding,' Meghan added.
Harry wrote about the moment in his 2023 memoir Spare, sharing that Kate texted Meghan four days before the wedding, telling her, 'Charlotte's dress is too big, too long, too baggy. She cried when she tried it on at home.' Meghan then told Kate to see the tailor, who was 'standing by' at Kensington Palace—their shared home at the time—but Kate said that 'all the dresses need to be remade.'
'A short time later, I arrived home and found Meg on the floor. Sobbing,' Harry wrote. 'I was horrified to see her so upset, but didn't think it was a catastrophe.'
In his 2023 book Endgame, royal biographer Omid Scobie wrote that Kate and Meghan didn't have much in common, and their bond was further eschewed by a growing rift between their husbands Prince William and Prince Harry.
'Still, for Meghan, who found much of her time as a working royal a lonely and isolated experience, there was a hope that Kate would be someone she could at least turn to for an encouraging word during her lowest points,' Scobie wrote. 'They were once both outsiders, middle-class women brought into the House of Windsor for unimaginably different lives. Kate, however, was uninterested in forming this kind of bond with Meghan.'
Harry and Meghan stepped back as working members of the royal family in 2020, and Kate and Meghan have reportedly interacted very little since, save for a joint appearance with their husbands two days after Queen Elizabeth died in September 2022, where they greeted mourners assembled at Windsor Castle.
Read the original article on InStyle
