Meghan’s friendship with designer soured over returned loaned dresses, memoir says

Roland Mouret’s forthcoming memoir claims his friendship with Meghan Markle soured after his fashion house asked for dresses it had lent her to be returned. He says a staff member mistakenly contacted the Princess of Wales’s office at Kensington Palace, leaving Meghan feeling embarrassed and saying she could no longer wear his designs.

Mouret says he had offered Meghan clothes for public engagements after she told him she was in a relationship with Prince Harry. They had met in Turkey in 2015 and become close friends; she later wore his dresses, including at an event in Dublin in 2018. He recalls that she eventually wore a high-street copy of one design, and says he told her she was being “ridiculous”; the memoir is due out next week.