Prince Harry: Kate admitted she made Meghan cry but wouldn’t publicly come clean

Prince Harry has revealed new details of a private “summit” in which Kate Middleton made a key confession to Meghan Markle.

Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton. Picture: Chris Jackson – WPA Pool/Getty

Dress-gate continues.

Prince Harry claims Kate Middleton privately admitted the tabloids got it wrong in reporting that Meghan Markle made her cry over Princess Charlotte’s flower girl dress in 2018.

“Kate got things rolling straightaway by acknowledging that these stories in the papers about Meg making her cry were totally false,” the Duke of Sussex writes in his just-released memoir, Spare, Page Six reports.

Recalling a “summit” he and Meghan had with William and Kate that December, Harry alleges Kate said: “‘I know, Meghan, that I was the one who made you cry.’”

Harry recalls feeling relieved.

“Meg appreciated the apology, but wanted to know why the paper had said this, and what was being done to correct them? In other words: ‘Why isn’t your office standing up for me?’”

Meghan (left) and Kate butted heads from the start. Picture: Chris Jackson – WPA Pool/Getty

The Duke of Sussex, 38, claims his sister-in-law became “flustered” and his brother “chimed in with some very supportive-sounding evasions”.

“But I already knew the truth,” he writes. “No one at the palace could phone the correspondent, because that would invite the inevitable retort: Well if the story’s wrong, what’s the real story?”

Harry says he realised that would not ever happen because the future queen could not be embarrassed by her less-than-gracious behaviour – plus, “the monarchy, always at all costs, had to be protected”.

Eventually, the four began trying to work out how the story had leaked, and William, now 40, eventually admitted that while Harry and Meghan were on their royal tour in Australia, he and Kate had gone to dinner at their father Charles’ home, according to Harry’s side of the story.

Spare has become an instant bestseller. Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP

Meghan ‘appreciated the apology’ from Kate. Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty

“He said sheepishly, he might have let it slip that there’d been strife between the two couples,” Harry writes, accusing his father, 74, of leaking the story to the press.

Meghan, 41, first told the world about the incorrect reporting during the couple’s explosive 2021 sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, explaining that she was the one brought to tears by her sister-in-law ahead of her wedding, and not the other way around.

The renegade royal goes into even greater detail in his book over the tiff.

He writes that Kate texted Meghan days before their nuptials about a “problem” with Charlotte’s dress.

When the former Suits actress replied that a tailor was waiting at the palace to perform alterations, Kate allegedly refused to go and instead wanted all six of the flower girl dresses remade four days before the wedding.

She eventually conceded to visit the tailor, but damage had been done.

Harry writes that he later found Meghan in tears “on the floor” following the text exchange. The following day, he alleges, Kate came over with a bouquet of flowers and cards as an apology.

Buckingham Palace has declined to comment on Spare, but royal author Tom Bower told Page Six exclusively that Kate, 41, is “outraged and hurt” by her brother-in-law’s book.

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission

Originally published as Prince Harry: Kate admitted she made Meghan cry but wouldn’t publicly come clean