According to royal biographer Valentine Low, the Duchess of Sussex accused Vanity Fair of creating a “racially inspired” title after posing for its cover in 2017.
Meghan Markle first discussed her relationship with Prince Harry in the September 2017 issue of the magazine, which was penned by Sam Kashner and titled “Wild About Harry.”
“Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown,” Lou’s new book about the royal family, was released in the UK on Thursday. Lou wrote in his book that an unnamed source informed him that Meghan was furious news Because “it was about Harry, not him.”
According to Lou, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry considered the title discriminatory.
Meghan and Prince Harry were reportedly unhappy with the title and pointed to the similarity of the song “I’m Just Wild About Harry”, which Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney performed in blackface in the 1939 film “Babes in Arms” . On the cover of the magazine, the headline of the article read, “She Can’t Get Enough of Harry!”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will attend the 2019 Trooping the Colour.
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According to a source for Lou, the couple attempted to have Vanity Fair remove the title of the digital edition because they believed “it was racially motivated.” “Meghan Markle, Wild About Harry” is still the title online at the time of writing.
According to his profile on the newspaper’s website, Lou is a royal journalist for The Times of London, who has been covering the royal family since 2008. The author of “Courtiers” said in acknowledgment of the book that he had conducted nearly 100 interviews with informants who had worked in various royal houses from the 1960s to the present day.
Meghan and Harry have already discussed what they characterize as racist behavior by the British press. In 2016, Harry issued a formal statement criticizing the media for “racist undertones” in headlines about the then-actress.
A spokesman for Harry said at the time: “His girlfriend Meghan Markle has been the target of a wave of abuse and harassment.” The slander on the front page of a national newspaper, the racist undertones of the comments, and the outright sexism and racism of social-media trolls and web-article comments have all been very public.
The following year, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Harry and Meghan said racism in British tabloids directed at the Duchess played a “major” role in their choice to leave the United Kingdom the previous year.
A separate royal book claims Meghan broke off her friendship with the journalist who wrote the cover article for Vanity Fair.
In recent months, Lou is hardly the only writer to cover Meghan’s Vanity Fair story.
Bower said in her July-release book “Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors” that Meghan was upset that the author she interviewed did not include a story from the time she told Procter and Gamble was forced to remove his sexist dish. soap commercial.
Bower said in his book that Kashner omitted the item because Vanity Fair fact-checkers questioned its veracity.
According to the book, Meghan told Kashner, “I believed it would be a real friendship.” “I no longer believe it is possible.”
However, Kashner later denied several claims included in Bower’s book, including believing that Meghan was flirting with him when they first met and that she liked him because he stammered.
Kashner wrote in the July letters section of The Times of London that Bower did not express his “admiration and respect” for Meghan.
“I thought Ms Markle was very warm and cordial, and I appreciated her mind and extraordinary patience,” he said. Kashner expressed disappointment that Meghan’s narrative was abandoned because “I wanted to showcase the action of her life.”
Vanity Fair representatives Sam Kashner and the Duchess of Sussex did not immediately respond to Insider inquiries.