Meghan Markle and the Princess of Wales aren't on good terms, and there have been plenty of reports about how the pair interacted with one another while Meghan was a working member of the royal family.
The most famous is the claim that, in 2018, Meghan made her sister-in-law, the then-Duchess of Cambridge, cry over an argument about the flower girl dresses for her wedding to Prince Harry.
However, in her infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, the Duchess of Sussex contradicted the reports. "Did you make Kate cry?" Oprah asked, to which Meghan said after a pause: "No, no, the reverse happened. And I don't say that to be disparaging to anyone."
She continued: "It was a really hard week of the wedding and she was upset about something but she owned it and she apologised and she bought me flowers, and a note apologising. She did what I would do if I knew that I hurt someone."
"She's a good person," Meghan added. She went on to say that she wanted to "protect" her sister-in-law from the truth coming out, but was "shocked" when six or seven months after her and Harry's royal wedding, there were reports that she had upset Catherine.
What else did Meghan claim in the interview?
In the sit-down interview, Meghan also claimed that she and Harry actually tied the knot in secret three days before the Windsor wedding.However, a month after the interview, a source close to the Sussexes backtracked on the claims, saying the couple only "exchanged personal vows".
Stephen Borton, the former chief clerk at the Faculty Office, told The Sun at the time that Meghan was "obviously confused and misinformed". He continued: "What I suspect they did was exchange some simple vows they had perhaps written themselves, and which is fashionable, and said that in front of the Archbishop or, and more likely, it was a simple rehearsal."
© Getty ImagesHowever, one of the most explosive claims from the interview came when Meghan alleged that a member of the royal family raised "concerns and conversations about how dark [Archie's] skin might be when he's born".
Asked whether there were concerns that her child would be "too brown" and that would be a problem, Meghan said: "If that is the assumption you are making, that is a pretty safe one." Pushed by Oprah on who had those conversations, Meghan refused to say, adding: "I think that would be very damaging to them."
© Getty ImagesIt has never been revealed who the royal who made the alleged claims is. However, in 2023, the Dutch translation of Omid Scobie's book, Endgame, claimed that King Charles and Princess Catherine had a conversation about Archie's skin colour. Omid later backtracked and claimed that he had "never submitted a book that had their names in it".
