Prince Harry claims palace ‘approved’ Meghan Markle’s polarizing ripped jeans
When Meghan Markle made her first appearance on the royal scene in a pair of ripped jeans and a white button-up shirt, she made plenty of headlines — but not all for the right reasons.
In his new bombshell memoir, “Spare,” Prince Harry alleges that his then-girlfriend’s outfit at the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto — consisting of Mother’s “Looker” frayed jeans ($174, originally $248), a white “Husband” shirt ($255) by her friend Misha Nonoo and Sarah Flint “Natalie” flats ($450) — was “approved” by the palace.
But after negative press and online trolls claimed that Markle wasn’t dressed appropriately for a royal girlfriend, the prince thought something more could’ve been done.
“A single declaration in defense of Meg would have been enough to make a tremendous difference,” he wrote, referring to the online hate Markle had received at the time.
While Buckingham Palace has never made a habit of commenting on, let alone defending, a family member’s choice of attire, Harry wrote that “no one” at the palace stood up for the “Suits” actress.
Writing about the Invictus experience — which he called “the perfect occasion” for their debut due to the games being held in Toronto, where Markle lived at the time — Harry said the couple focused their attention “on the game and the good cause” versus “the clicking of cameras.”
Although both of them were “nervous” about officially going public as a couple, the duke said the pair had “hidden from the world for too long.”
In other style-related revelations in “Spare,” the Duke of Sussex details his wife’s infamous tiara incident before the royal wedding, how Camilla Parker Bowles turned his bedroom into her private dressing room after he moved out and an “awkward moment” involving Markle asking Kate Middleton to borrow her lip gloss (which may or may not have been the royal’s $28 Clarins Lip Perfector).
The palace told Page Six it would not be commenting on any allegations in the book.
