A new book is contending that Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle was enraged over a 2017 Vanity Fair cover that boasted “She’s Just Wild About Harry!” when she was dating the prince, claiming that featuring her face was somehow racist.
At issue is the Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney song “I’m Just Wild About Harry” that used blackface dancers in 1939 during a routine featured in the film “Babes in Arms,” according to the Daily Mail. That’s a stretch even for Markle considering the song was written eighteen years prior to that.
The claim comes from royal author Valentine Low’s new book, “Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown.”
The royal couple “tried to get it changed online, because [they thought] it had been racially motivated,” a source said in an excerpt obtained by The Daily Mail.
Meghan Markle raged at 'RACIST' Vanity Fair cover when she began dating Harry, new book claims https://t.co/zEYNCeUff4
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) September 30, 2022
— Lorena Guzman (@LorenaGuzman_) October 1, 2022
“She did not like the photographs. She thought the story was negative. She was upset that it was about Harry, not about her,” the author contended.
Markle was so offended by the headline that she allegedly wanted to fire her newly hired public relations advisor, Keleigh Thomas Morgan of Sunshine Sachs.
In the beginning, Markle was reportedly “ecstatic” to do the layout with Vanity Fair. But when the tabloid decided to focus on her new relationship with the Duke of Sussex instead of her acting career and philanthropic efforts she became irate.
Another excerpt from the book that was published in the Times of London claims that Markle had been under strict orders to avoid topics such as politics, race, and her relationship with the prince.
I wish I could marry a Prince and live in a castle so I too, can be oppressed like Meghan Markle.
— Isabella Maria DeLuca (@IsabellaMDeLuca) September 30, 2022
Markle told Prince Harry that the piece would focus on the celebration of the 100th episode of “Suits,” the TV show that she was filming in Toronto, where the interview took place.
Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner evidently had never heard of the TV show or the actress. The report contends that is why he quizzed her on her relationship with Prince Harry.
“We’re a couple. We’re in love,” she famously responded at the time. “It’s part of what makes it so special, that it’s just ours. But we’re happy. Personally, I love a great love story.”
“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 asserted in the article.
So Meghan Markle was responsible for all the bullshit from the get go. It is starting to make a whole lot of sense. She was just a crass opportunist who used racism as a target against the firm. What a lowlife! It is not going to stick for much longer. It is all coming together.
— Madame Anthony (@AnthonyMadame) October 1, 2022
The interview was “like a thunderclap,” wrote British journalist Tom Bower according to News.com.au.
Bower said it triggered sensational reactions, including Meghan using her relationship with Harry to promote herself.
“Wild about Harry” was written twenty years before being featured in the Judy Garland film Meghan calls racist. There are about seventy-five versions of it. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
— Honeythewitch (@honeythewitch) September 30, 2022
“For almost a year, rumors have flown about the romance between the 36-year-old actress and Britain’s 33-year-old Prince Harry—the redheaded hell-raiser, former army captain who had completed two tours of duty in Afghanistan, and all-around favorite royal. If Markle and Prince Harry are indeed headed to the altar, she will become the first American to marry into the royal family since Wallis Simpson famously wed King Edward VIII, forcing his abdication from the throne, almost 81 years ago,” Vanity Fair reported.
“Markle is the calm in the center of the media storm inspired by her year-long relationship with the prince. The couple met in London through friends in July 2016, Markle says. Since then, media coverage of their romance has been so intense—and much of it so unpleasant—that Prince Harry was moved to issue a statement asking the press and public, essentially, to back off,” the outlet continued.
The couple’s engagement was officially announced in November 2017.
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