Meghan Markle played a huge role in Prince William and Prince Harry's feud. There was also a time when the Duchess of Sussex and the Prince of Wales had a verbal row.
Meghan Markle Fires Back After Prince William Points A Finger At Her
In Prince Harry's memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex shared multiple not-so-flattering encounters between him, his wife, and his family. According to her, Markle commented on Kate Middleton having a "baby brain" ahead of her royal wedding to Prince Harry in 2018.
It reportedly resulted in a verbal row between Markle and Prince William, who immediately defended his wife.
Prince William allegedly "pointed a finger at Meghan" and told her, "Well, it's rude, Meghan. These things are not done here." Marke reportedly didn't sit back and instead clapped back, telling her brother-in-law, "If you don't mind, keep your finger out of my face," Animated Times reported.
Prince Harry also detailed in his book a physical fight with his big brother Prince William. According to him, the heir to the throne visited him at his and Markle's home, and Prince William was coming for his wife.
"It was at a time where he was being told certain things by people within his office. And at the same time, he was consuming a lot of the tabloid press, a lot of the stories. And he had a few issues which were based not on reality. And I was defending my wife. And he was coming for my wife — she wasn't there at the time but through the things that he was saying. I was defending myself," he told Anderson Cooper during their interview for 60 Minutes, People reported.
"And we moved from one room into the kitchen. And his frustrations were growing and growing and growing. He was shouting at me. I was shouting back at him. It wasn't nice. It wasn't pleasant at all. And he snapped. And he pushed me to the floor."
Prince Harry's Spare Absolves Meghan Markle From His Row With Prince William
In his memoir and recent interviews, Prince Harry repeatedly said that he and Prince William grew apart after Princess Diana's death. He added that sibling rivalry played a part.
In the same interview with Cooper, he explained that he didn't want to hurt his family but chose to share intimate details about his family because it "does give a full picture of the situation as we were growing up and also squashes this idea that somehow my wife was the one that destroyed the relationship between these two brothers."
Royal historian Gareth Russell also said that the Duke of Sussex's revelations in his book absolves Meghan Markle from the rift between the two brothers.
"She said, 'I feel like in many ways this exonerates Megan from the accusation that she stirred up all this trouble between them,'" Russell told Us Weekly Wednesday. "It's very clear, if you read the book, that Prince Harry has been keeping score in his head for decades before he met the future Duchess of Sussex."
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