Meghan tell Oprah: ‘Kate brought me flowers after making me cry over flower girl dress days before wedding’

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Reports circulated that ahead of the Sussexes’ nuptials, Meghan left Kate in tears at Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress fitting
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The Duchess of Sussex today claimed in her interview with Oprah Winfrey that Kate made her cry before her wedding.

Reports circulated that ahead of the Sussexes’ nuptials, Meghan left Kate in tears at Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress fitting — but Meghan told Winfrey “the reverse” happened. She described the reports, which emerged months after the May 2018 marriage, as “hard to get over”.

Meghan said she was not sharing the information to be “disparaging” — and described Kate as a “good person” — but added it was “really important for people to understand the truth”.

The claim came when Winfrey asked her: “Was there a situation where she [Kate] might have cried? Or she could have cried?”

The duchess replied: “No, no. The reverse happened. And I don’t say that to be disparaging to anyone, because it was a really hard week of the wedding. And she was upset about something, but she owned it, and she apologised.

“And she brought me flowers and a note, apologising. And she did what I would do if I knew that I hurt someone, right, to just take accountability for it.”

But she added: “What was shocking was that six or seven months after our wedding that the reverse of that would be out in the world.”

Meghan said of her sister-in-law: “A few days before the wedding, she was upset about something pertaining — yes, the issue was correct — about flower girl dresses, and it made me cry, and it really hurt my feelings.

“And I thought, in the context of everything else that was going on in those days leading to the wedding, that it didn’t make sense to not be just doing whatever everyone else was doing, which was trying to be supportive, knowing what was going on with my dad and whatnot.”

Meghan added: “It wasn’t a confrontation, and ... I don’t think it’s fair to her to get into the details of that, because she apologised. What was hard to get over was being blamed for something that not only I didn’t do, but that happened to me.”

Meghan also admitted she was “naive” and unprepared for life in the royal family, revealing that she was taught how to curtsy by Sarah Ferguson moments before meeting the Queen at The Royal Lodge in Windsor.

She recalled: “Right in front of the house we practised and ran in. Fergie ran out and said, ‘Do you know how to curtsy?’ Apparently I did a very deep curtsy, I don’t remember it, and then we sat there and we chatted.”

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