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Magdalene Dalziel

Meghan Markle struggled in wedding dress 'after being rude' to aide, claims author

It's been claimed that Meghan Markle struggled with her wedding dress on her big day after the military escort she was allegedly rude to refused to help her.

Meghan had arrived at St George's Chapel in Windsor with just her two page boys after her dad pulled out of the event.

As she got out of the car, footage from the day showed the former Suits star's veil had become twisted in the vehicle - and another aide along with dress designer Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy rushed to assist her, as writes the Mirror.

But a military man who was responsible for opening the car door did not step up and offer to help out.

According to Tom Bower, author of Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, he refused to assist the actress due to something that happened the day before.

Speaking on an upcoming episode of the Mirror's Pod Save the Queen podcast, he claims: "A military man told me an extraordinary story about Meghan when she arrived at the wedding at Windsor Castle on that glorious day in 2018.

"You see her get out of the car unaccompanied and she has problems with the train of her dress and the army officer doesn't step forward to help her.

"And the reason is, is the day before in the rehearsal, she had been very rude to him so he thought 'well I'm not going to help you today'.

"I didn't get the story from him but a fellow officer of his, who explained what had happened."

Mr Bower also adds that Meghan and Harry wanted more prominent seats at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations but had to back down because of the Queen's orders.

The couple flew over to the UK from their home in California for the event last month but they only made one public appearance - at a service of thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral.

They arrived with other non-working royals including cousins Princess Beatrice and Eugenie and their husbands, but then walked through the church together hand-in-hand on their own.

They sat next to Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank, with the couple along with Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi having to awkwardly stand up to let the Sussexes past to reach their seats.

Mr Bower claimed: "I was told, unfortunately too late for the book, they were meant to turn up at Wellington Barracks to get on the coach which was set up for the minor royals to go to St Paul's for the Jubilee service.

"They arrived deliberately late so the bus had gone and they could make a grand entrance from a car so they could be seen on the steps, which Netflix obviously needed.

"And then as they walked down the aisle, they get to the seats in the row they are assigned and I'm told they then asked six other people sitting this side of the aisle could they move down so they could sit on the aisle itself.

"And the usher apparently said to them 'you can't, you're sitting in seats eight or nine' or whatever it was and Harry said 'why?'

"And the usher said 'that's what your grandmother ordered'. I'm told that from a military man."

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