Meghan Markle became "hysterical" after a Vanity Fair cover story focused mainly on her relationship, a new book claims.
The Duchess of Sussex landed the interview for the September 2017 edition of the popular magazine, the Mirror reports. However, she called her PR team panicking because the piece - headlined Wild About Harry - angered Buckingham Palace.
It failed to focus enough on her activism and philanthropy, according to 'Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors.' Published by investigative author Tom Bower, the book says that she and her LA publicists Sunshine Sachs were "ecstatic."
It notes that the reaction came after "years of struggle to get Meghan noticed" but it soon turned into disappointment. Buckingham Palace received pre-publication copies of the magazine in early September, Bower claims in his book.
The Vanity Fair edition featured a photograph of the duchess alongside the headline "She's Just Wild About Harry."
Prince Harry had been wary of interviews after mum Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson had caused controversy in the past. He was apparently keen for Meghan to avoid sensitive topics like Donald Trump, race, their relationship and particularly himself.
Vanity Fair's long-serving contributing editor Sam Kashner asked Meghan about him but hadn't expected an answer from her. It states he was "quietly elated" when Meghan, who at this point was secretly engaged to the Harry, responded: "We’re a couple. We’re in love.
"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.
"This is for us. 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."
The interview sparked sensational reactions across the world. In his book, which has been serialised in The Sun and The Times, Bower says that Buckingham Palace was taken by surprise by "Meghan's unprecedented brazenness."
The book says also notes that "within hours," Meghan had called her PR firm's bosses demanding answers.
He writes: "Hysterically, she described Buckingham Palace's fury at 'Wild About Harry'. Sunshine Sachs, said Meghan, should have ensured that her comments about Harry were removed.
"Why wasn't the focus on her philanthropy and activism? Ken Sunshine feared that Meghan would fire his agency.
"Puzzled why Buckingham Palace was angry, he called the magazine's editor to deliver what he imagined to be the ultimate threat. '
"You're going to have to deal with the Queen on this,' he said.
"The furious monarch, he imagined, like Trump, would pick up the phone and berate the editor. The editor was bemused."
Bowers says that the PR chief was told Meghan secured the interview because of who she was likely to marry and not based on her feminism.
Meghan's PR team had reportedly told the magazine before agreeing to the interview that, while she would be delighted to speak to them, the piece would need to represent her as a major actor and highlight her activism and philanthropy.
Bower claims that Meghan had also talked about her "speech to the United Nations" during the interview.
He says she told Kashner how, as an 11-year-old, she wrote to the chairman of consumer goods firm Procter & Gamble and then first lady Hillary Clinton in protest about an advertising slogan for washing up liquid stating that "Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans".
Meghan said she had called for the word "women" to be replaced with "people", something that the company eventually changed.
Bower noted that, after the story was published, Meghan had told Kashner by text that she was "gutted and deflated" and later called to tell him she was "disappointed" in him.
He writes that Meghan was particularly upset that her Procter & Gamble anecdote was not included in the article.
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors by Tom Bower, will be published by Blink Publishing on July 21.
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