Meghan Markle's tailor who fitted her bridesmaids' dress - which became the subject of a tense fight between the Duchess and her sister-in-law Kate - admitted he was "not surprised" that the argument ended in tears.
After sitting on his side of the story in for four years, luxury suit and dressmaker Ajay Mirpuri has now broken his silence on the intense row that began when Princess Charlotte burst into tears, reports the Express. Ajay said that while he was not a witness to the argument, he offered an unsettling glimpse into what caused the now-famous row between Kate and Meghan.
Ajay told the Daily Mail that he and three staff were forced to work around the clock for four days at Kensington Palace and Windsor Castle before the Royal Wedding in 2018.
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The initial reports of an argument between the two Royal wives suggested that Kate was the one left in tears. However, Meghan later disputed this 'fact' in a 2021 interview with her husband and Oprah Winfrey - as she said it was herself that had been left "sobbing".
Prince Harry also noted the argument in his new memoir, Spare, claiming that his wife was left "on the floor sobbing" following the argument.
Mr Mirpuri, 45, who has a showroom in London's West End, said he could understand "why anybody would be upset" at the disruption to such monumental plans.
Ajay said: "If anything happened in the background, it didn't happen in front of me.
"But yes, weddings are stressful at the best of times – and especially one at this high level; you've got to respect that. They were faced with a problem like anyone gets at a wedding, with last-minute hitches. I can understand why anybody would be upset if the dresses weren't fitting – it's nerve-wracking.
"I feel for them all, because you wouldn't want the children to go out on a big stage in an ill-fitting dress – and that's what they were.
"All six bridesmaids' dresses had to be fixed, and we did it. I'm a royalist and I wanted to do whatever I could with my small business to serve the Royal Family."
In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry also provided a different perspective to the argument. The Duke claimed that four days before the big wedding, Kate sent Meghan a text about her daughter Princess Charlotte crying because her dress was "too big, too long, too baggy".
A tense discussion followed in which, according to Harry, Meghan told Kate she had a tailor, named Ajay, "waiting all day" at Kensington Palace in order to make adjustments and urged Kate to bring Charlotte there to have the dress altered.
Kate allegedly responded: "No, all the dresses need to be remade."
Meghan repeated that Charlotte should see the designer, to which Kate is said to have replied: "Fine."
The gowns were created by British designer Clare Waight Keller, artistic director of Givenchy, who also made the wedding dress.
Ajay added: "I've no idea what measurements Givenchy had received, but with our experience and knowledge we could see straight away that all six bridesmaids' dresses had to be fixed, as they weren't going to fit."
The other bridesmaids included Harry's goddaughter Florence van Cutsem; Rylan and Remi Litt, the daughters of close friends of Meghan; Ivy Mulroney, daughter of Canadian stylist Jessica Mulroney, the unofficial maid of honour; and Zalie Warren, another of Harry's goddaughters and the youngest of the group - who was two years old at the time.
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