Meghan Markle Not on Speaking Terms With Another British Icon Amid Update to Kate Middleton Fallout
Meghan Markle’s relationship with her husband, Prince Harry, is still going strong. Even as there’s speculation about Prince William and Kate Middleton’s marriage and the state of Prince Harry’s relationship with his father, King Charles, and his brother, Prince William, that remains the one certainty about the British Royal Family. But Markle’s close relationships are not all as strong as the relationship with her husband seems to be.
Recent reports from the Daily Mail reveal that Markle’s friendship with former British Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful suffered irrevocable damage after he made the decision not to feature her in the magazine’s cover. The plan was originally to have Markle in the September 2022 cover of British Vogue, spotlighting her charitable work. However, disagreements on how she would be featured ended without a cover and with the friendship irrevocably broken.
“The duchess and her team had high expectations and were expecting she might get a print cover or at least a digital cover out of it, but Enninful was not able to meet those expectations,” a source told the outlet. “He already had a magazine cover in the bag for that month.”
Instead, Linda Evangelista graced the cover of British Vogue that month.
According to the outlet Markle and Enninful, who is no longer at British Vogue, are not on speaking terms at this moment. “Edward was furious to have lost the project, as were the powers that be at Condé Nast,” the source also said. “The whole process became very difficult. Edward could only promise her a big showy feature inside the magazine and online — but she turned it down,” they added.
However, the New York Post reports that communication between the two has “remained warm and respectful” over the years, and that the pair even exchanges birthday wishes in the past year.
This all comes as new reports about Meghan Markle’s relationship with Kate Middleton have surfaced. In a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Markle dispelled rumors that she had made Kate cry. “It was a really hard week of the wedding,” she explained. “And she was upset about something, but she owned it, and she apologized. And she brought me flowers and a note, apologizing. And she did what I would do if I knew that I hurt someone, right, to just take accountability for it.”
About the incident an anonymous Royal staffer told Tom Quinn for his book Yes, Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants that both parts were hurt by what happened. “Whenever this sort of thing happens in the royal family, traditionally no one says anything publicly about it, so it rarely reaches the media, but on this occasion, all sorts of other grievances meant that what was really nothing but a storm in a teacup reached the media and became a big issue. I can tell you that all the papers and commentators got this wrong, the truth is that as with many of these spats between sisters, brothers or even sisters-in-law, both sides were really upset.”
In his book, Spare, Prince Harry also referenced the moment, recounting, “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.’”
According to the royal insider, it was all blown out of proportion, “The other thing people forget is that when a private royal argument or row reaches the media, it gets subtly altered and usually made more significant than it really is.”
So, will the two reconcile? “I would love reconciliation with my family,” Harry said in a recent interview. There’s no point in continuing to fight anymore.”
Whether William—or Kate—want the same remains to be seen.
