Meghan ghosted me after she met her prince, says reality TV star

A BRITISH reality television star has claimed the Duchess of Sussex “abruptly” ended their friendship after news broke of her relationship with Prince Harry.

Millie Mackintosh, who starred on Made in Chelsea, said she met the Duchess around eight years ago when they attended the opening of a hotel in Istanbul and “got on like a house on fire”.

She said they stayed in touch and that she went on to give the Duchess, then an actress in Suits, a US legal drama, “all of her contacts” when she moved to London.

However, she claimed she had been “ghosted” after Meghan’s relationship with the Duke of Sussex became public knowledge. Ms Mackintosh said she had contacted the former actress when her romance was exposed.

“I messaged her and said, ‘Hey I hope you’re OK, thinking of you,’ and she just sent me this really abrupt message, that was really unlike any of our communications before,” she told the Mumlemmas podcast.

“It wasn’t like I’d messaged her asking if it was true – that was none of my business, I didn’t care.

“What I read from that message was that she maybe needed a bit of space, she needed to cool off, she was angry, she was maybe under a lot of pressure.”

She added: “I didn’t message her again, but I did expect that we would stay in touch. I thought she’d message back and say, ‘Look, sorry everything is a bit stressful right now.’ She cut me dead. I never heard from her again. I felt like she’d basically told me to f--- off in that message. We haven’t spoken since.”

Ms Mackintosh was pictured alongside the Duchess the last time she saw her, during a girls’ weekend at Soho Farmhouse, Oxfordshire, in September 2016. She said a day of yoga had turned into a “really fun afternoon” involving rosè and margaritas in the pool. She added: “She had met her prince. I was on a reality show, so she obv was like, ‘I can’t be associated with Made in Chelsea, I’m gonna be royal.”

It has been previously been alleged that Meghan was “spooked” because she suspected Ms Mackintosh was leaking details of their friendship to the media.