The smart set’s talking about . . . Mary Fellowes
DURING her post- engagement television interview, Meghan Markle told the BBC’s Mishal Husain that she ‘didn’t know much’ about Prince Harry before they met on a ‘blind date’.
Now, however, one of Harry’s cousins has set tongues wagging by revealing that Meghan befriended her in 2015.
Fashionista Mary Fellowes, 39, whose aunt, Lady Jane, was Princess Diana’s sister, tells me: ‘I styled Meghan three years ago for a magazine photoshoot and I interviewed her, too.’
The Suits star, 36, was introduced to Harry by an unnamed mutual pal the following year.
Mary ( pictured) explains: ‘ We arranged the shoot after I met her through mutual friends in London.
‘We became friends and then I just thought she was so incredible I had to interview her.’
The stylist, whose uncle, Sir Robert Fellowes, was the Queen’s private secretary, gushes of Meghan: ‘ She was incredibly impressive because she described how her activism and social conscience had started at a very young age.
‘She had a lot of conviction and cared about those causes.’
Mary, who has worked for Vogue and dressed U.S. actresses Liv Tyler, Claire Danes and Amy Adams, is not only a useful friend to Meghan. She is also helpful to Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who reportedly turned to her for style tips after they were pilloried for their fashion gaffes.