Princess Kate “gripped her chair so tightly her fingers went white” during a tense exchange with Meghan Markle as the pair looked to clear the air over simmering tensions.
The revelation came out of Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir, Spare, and was later elaborated on his interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby.
In Spare, Harry recounts several times that his wife seemed at loggerheads with his sister-in-law in the early days of their romance.
He said the two women had a disagreement about bridesmaids dresses in the lead up to the wedding and it had Meghan in tears. Princess Kate also “grimaced” when the duchess borrowed her lipgloss.
But after the Sussexs’ honeymoon, when the two couple attempted to clear the air, things got so heated that Kate’s fingers went white.
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Both couples aired their grievances including Kate, who asked for an apology from Meghan as she gripped a leather sofa so tightly her “fingers were white”, Harry wrote.
He said: “At one stage, Harry recounts a clear-the-air meeting involving him, William, Kate, and Meghan. It seems to have gone so badly wrong that he describes Kate as gripping the edges of the leather chair so tightly that her fingers were white.”
Kate allegedly wanted Meghan to apologise for making a comment about her hormones and having “baby brain” while she was pregnant.
Meghan apologised and explained that is how she speaks to her friends, the book recounted.
Things took a turn when Harry claims Prince William “pointed a finger at Meg”, then allegedly blasted: “Well, it’s rude, Meghan.
“These things are not done here.”
To which Meghan responded: “If you don’t mind, keep your finger out of my face.”
This comes after Meghan also slighted Princess Kate during her and Harry’s Netflix docuseries.
She said she was “surprised” by the behind-the-scenes formality of members of the royal family during their first meeting.
Speaking in episode two of the six-part Harry & Meghan docuseries, she said: “When Will and Kate came over, and I met her for the first time, they came over for dinner, I remember I was in ripped jeans and I was barefoot. I was a hugger.
“I’ve always been a hugger, I didn’t realise that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.
“I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside. There is a forward-facing way of being, and then you close the door and go ‘You can relax now’, but that formality carries over on both sides. And that was surprising to me.”
