Meghan secretly fumed over Vanity Fair cover story announcing Prince Harry relationship

Meghan Markle looked stunning on this glamorous Vanity Fair cover – but behind the scenes she was fuming, it’s now been claimed.

Meghan Markle’s excitement at being on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine turned to hysteria and rage after the magazine focused on her relationship with Prince Harry instead of her acting and philanthropy, according to a bombshell new book about the royal couple.

In “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors,” British journalist Tom Bower said Meghan was “ecstatic” when the magazine agreed to do a story about her, and put her on the cover of the September 2017 issue.

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Vanity Fair’s 2017 cover declared Meghan “wild about Harry!” Picture: Peter Lindbergh for Vanity Fair

But when the magazine used the headline “She’s Just Wild About Harry,” and did not focus on her work as an activist and philanthropist, Buckingham Palace baulked — and Meghan was furious with her US public relations company, Sunshine Sachs, according to excerpts from the book published by The Times of London Saturday.

According to Bower, Meghan had been under strict orders from Harry’s public relations team to steer clear of sensitive topics, including Donald Trump, race and her relationship with the prince.

Meghan had convinced Harry the article would focus on the celebration of the 100th episode of Suits, the TV show that the actress was filming in Toronto, where the interview was conducted.

“Sunshine Sachs had demanded that the magazine satisfy Meghan’s requirement that she be presented as a philanthropist and activist, without considering one problem: Vanity Fair’s scrupulous researchers could find no evidence of her global philanthropy and activism,” writes Bower.

Meghan had expected the article would focus on her work on the show Suits.

But when Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner, who confessed he had never heard of Meghan or “Suits,” asked Meghan about her relationship with Harry, she replied, “We’re a couple. We’re in love.”

‘I’m sure there will be a time when we will have to come forward and present ourselves and have stories to tell, but I hope what people will understand is that this is our time,” Markle said in the article.

The interview was “like a thunderclap,” writes Bower. “the interview triggered sensational reactions: Meghan had used her relationship with Harry to promote herself. The Hollywoodisation of the royal family had sealed Meghan’s fate as Harry’s fiancee.”

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