Millie Mackintosh reveals brutal text she received from former friend Meghan Markle: ‘Snubbed’

Millie Mackintosh, who was once a close friend of Meghan Markle’s, claimed she “basically told me to f**k off” after news of her Harry romance broke.

Meghan Markle and Millie Mackintosh used to be friends.

British reality TV star Millie Mackintosh has exposed the brutal “abrupt” text she received from her former friend, Meghan Markle, after she started dating Prince Harry.

The 33-year-old, who found fame on hit series Made in Chelsea, spoke on her Mumlemmas podcast about how she’d become friends with the ex-Suits actress almost a decade ago, but had been left hurt after she was “snubbed” once news of her royal romance broke in 2016.

“Years ago, I’d say about eight years ago, I went to the opening of a hotel in Istanbul and I met Meghan Markle,” Mackintosh told co-host Charlie Boud.

“I was a fan, I watched Suits, and we met at the bar and we were both ordering a drink at the same time I started chatting. We got on really well, we got on like a house on fire, and just stayed in touch.

“Then we went to lunch, she didn’t know London very well, she’d never been to Chelsea, so I took her to The Ivy on Kings Road.

“She didn’t know anyone so I gave her the best places to get your nails done, basically my little black book. I gave her all my contacts.”

The reality star went on to explain that she and Meghan bonded over their marital troubles, with the actress having ended her marriage with Trevor Engelson, and Mackintosh experiencing issues with then-husband Professor Green.

“When we first met I was married, going through a bit of a turbulent time, and I got divorced, and she was divorced so we had quite a lot to talk about,” she said.

“That was quite bonding, and we were both into our wellness, she had her blog, we were both just into the same things.

“We hung out a handful of times, we weren’t best friends, but whenever she was in town she’d let me know and we would just hang out.

“Then the last time I saw her was down at a hotel in the Cotswolds, she was staying there, what I thought was going to be a day of yoga ended up being rosè and margaritas in the pool.

“It was a really fun afternoon, there were pictures taken of us riding around on the bikes. That was the last time I saw her.”

The pair shared a picture on Instagram of their Cotswolds weekend.

It was during that weekend away that Meghan first hinted at her relationship with Harry.

“When I was there, we were chatting and she told me about Harry and that they were messaging, and a friend had introduced them.

“I don’t know him, just to clarify, I’ve never met him. Me and Harry do not know each other I’ve never met him. I didn’t really ask too much about it.”

Mackintosh added that when news of her relationship hit the news a short time later, she’d reached out to offer support.

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

“It’s not like I messaged her asking if it was true, that was none of my business. What I read from that message was that she needed a bit of space, to cool off.

“I didn’t message her again, but I did expect that we would stay in touch. I thought she’d message back and say, ‘Sorry everything is a bit stressful right now.’

“I never heard from her again. I felt like she’d basically told me to f**k off in that message. So I did. And we haven’t spoken since.”

Meghan began dating Harry in 2016 and married into the royal family in 2018. Picture: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images

Before the news went public, she had been spending time with her UK pal, Millie Mackintosh. Picture: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

Mackintosh admitted she’d concluded that her former friend had decided she shouldn’t be associated with her anymore.

“My take on it is that, this is my instinct why it happened at the time, she thought right I’m gonna be royal now, I don’t need Millie in my life’,” she told her co-host.

“I was on a reality show at the time, she thought, ‘I can’t be associated with Made In Chelsea, I’m gonna be royal’.”

While Meghan has never spoken publicly about her friendship with Mackintosh or why it ended, she has previously hinted at having to make extreme adjustments to her social circle once she entered the royal family.

During her explosive 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, she revealed that she’d been discouraged from leaving the house for months at a time.

“I remember so often people within The Firm would say, ‘Well, you can’t do this because it’ll look like that. You can’t’. So, even, ‘Can I go and have lunch with my friends?’ ‘No, no, no, you’re oversaturated, you’re everywhere, it would be best for you to not go out to lunch with your friends’. I go, ‘Well, I haven’t left the house in months’,” she told Winfrey.

“I mean, there was a day that one of the members of the family, she came over, and she said, ‘Why don’t you just lay low for a little while, because you are everywhere right now’.

“And I said, ‘I’ve left the house twice in four months. I’m everywhere, but I am nowhere’.”

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