There had been reports that Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton were making incremental strides in repairing their relationship. “Moves are being made to reconcile,” an insider told OK! in February. Unfortunately, those claims were not as promising as originally suspected. Royal expert Katie Nicholl clarified that while Meghan had reached out, the pair were not close to making amends. “I think those reports are slightly wide off the mark,” Nicholl told ET in March. Megan and Prince Harry had made an effort to learn more about Kate’s health, but they were still on the outs with both Kate and Prince William. “The relationship is very estranged now, you know, the brothers don’t talk and Kate and Meghan certainly don’t talk,” the royal expert added.
A day after that report was published, Harry and Meghan had an icy response to Kate’s cancer diagnosis. “We wish health and healing for Kate and the family, and hope they are able to do so privately and in peace,” the Sussexes said in a terse statement.
Tension between Meghan and Kate was evident long before the Princess of Wales had health issues, before Megan tried to undercut her sister-in-law’s public return at Trooping the Colour. In fact, the duo had an awkward exchange at the same event in 2018. After Kate asked for Megan’s thoughts on the parade, the former actor said “Colorful.” In his 2023 memoir “Spare,” Harry wrote that following the joke, “A yawning silence threatened to swallow us all whole” (via the Independent).
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