Kate and Meghan’s raging ‘baby brain’ bust-up
THE Duchess of Sussex told Prince William to ‘get your finger out of my face’ after a family row descended into a shouting match, Prince Harry claims in his book.
According to the prince’s account in Spare, relations with his brother Prince William and his wife, the then Duchess of Cambridge, were riven by petty arguments.
Their differences reportedly came to a head in 2018, when Harry and Meghan made a social call to William’s home, ‘to clear the air’.
After just ten minutes the tea, biscuits, and small talk were forgotten as they shouted at each other about disagreements including the Sussexes’ failure to send Easter presents.
The blistering row saw Kate demand Meghan apologise for previously accusing her of having a dizzy ‘baby brain’.
Kate had given birth to Prince Louis, the youngest of her three children with William, in April that year, shortly before the Sussexes’ marriage that May.
The disastrous meeting came a month after the glittering wedding ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Harry and his new wife were apparently jealous of the splendour in which William lived, in contrast to their own ‘Ikea lamps’ and cut-price sofa.
The episode gives astonishing new detail on just how petty, and yet bitter, their differences could be. Harry recounts how ‘Willy and Kate invited us to tea. To clear the air’. They arrived in the afternoon, he says, and both were amazed at the lavishness of William’s newly renovated four- storey 20-room apartment at Kensington Palace – a contrast to their own accommodation in the grounds a few hundred yards away, in cosy Nottingham Cottage.
Harry claims to have been startled by the extent of his brother’s ‘magnificent’ home renovations, which were ‘like a museum’.
He claims that, as they walked in, Meghan repeatedly murmured ‘Wow’.
The prince says that when they congratulated William and Kate on the beauty of their renovated home, they were ‘thinking half-ashamedly of our Ikea lamps and the sofa we had recently bought on sale with Meg’s credit card on sofa.com’.
Harry then writes that, when the two couples met in the study, ‘Meg and I sat on a love seat at the end of the room’, while William and Kate sat in separate chairs opposite.
For ten minutes the former ‘Fab Four’ made small talk over tea and biscuits about the Sussexes’ recent honeymoon and the Cambridges’ children.
The mood reportedly changed after Meghan brought up the idea there was ‘tension between the
‘Small talk over tea and biscuits’
KATE TO MEGHAN
We are not close enough for you to talk about my hormones
WILLIAM TO MEGHAN These things are not done here
MEGHAN TO WILLIAM If you don’t mind, keep your finger out of my face
four of them’ and wondered whether it originated when she became part of the Royal Family.
Meghan apparently pointed out that she had not needed ‘fashion connections’ offered by Kate, as she ‘already had her own’.
The American actress then seemingly attempted to make light of the two royal wives’ infamous row over ‘those damned bridesmaid dresses’ before her wedding – Kate and William’s daughter Princess Charlotte was one of the flower girls and there are reported to have been disagreements over what she wore.
Harry writes that they were startled by Kate’s response, that he said he and Meghan had been unaware of. In what apparently
‘What’s the big deal?’
escalated into a ‘ shouting’ argument, they discovered ‘apparently, Willy and Kate had been annoyed’ the Sussexes had not given them an Easter gift.
Harry wondered ‘ What’s the big deal?’ over the lack of gift, noting Easter had been ‘ my father’s thing’, a sentiment not shared by William.
He wrote that he and Meghan were happy to apologise – but not without ‘ taking the opportunity’ to say they ‘weren’t thrilled either’ that William and Kate had ‘switched place cards’ at their wedding the previous month.
According to Harry, they had placed couples together ‘ following the American tradition’ for their wedding but William and Kate had wanted to sit apart. William was claimed to have said someone else must have switched the cards, and then added that Harry and Meghan had done the opposite at the wedding of Kate’s sister Pippa Middleton.
Harry duly denied that he had sat with Meghan at Pippa’s celebration, ‘ much as we wanted to with all our hearts’, saying they had been separated by a giant flower arrangement.
And he writes that Kate then stared into the garden and gripped her seat so hard ‘her fingers turned white’ as she told Meghan she was owed an apology ‘ because you offended me’.
Kate then recalled how when she admitted to Meghan on the phone that she had forgotten something, Meghan had responded by telling her it was ‘because she had just had a baby, because of the hormones’.
Kate said: ‘ We are not close enough for you to talk to me about my hormones.’
Harry says that when Meghan tried to insist that was simply how she spoke to her friends, William pointed at her and said: ‘Well, it’s rude, Meghan. That’s not how things are done here.’
Meghan retorted with: ‘If you don’t mind, get your finger out of my face.’
Harry says they then hugged – presumably extremely awkwardly – before he and Meghan ‘thought it would be best if we went home’.