Meghan Markle is painted as explosive, unpredictable and manipulative in a scathing new biography about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Tom Bower, author of Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors, claims the Duchess of Sussex ‘reduced people to tears with her passive aggressive tone’ and demanded first-class flights and luxury accommodation for business trips prior to meeting Prince Harry.
The author, who has admitted his sources were people who ‘don’t like’ Meghan, quotes one business associate who described the then actress as ‘one of the most unpleasant people he had ever dealt with’. Bower has admitted he has sourced much of his information for the book from people who don’t like Meghan because she had warned the people closest to her not to speak to him.
He told Good Morning Britain on Thursday: ‘She made it pretty clear to all her friends and people who work for her not to talk to me, so it was quite an uphill struggle but I got enough people to speak to me, more than enough, I got about 80 people.’ Asked how the book can be considered an unbiased account if the people interviewed already don’t like Meghan, the author replied: ‘Because I sifted through, I never put in stuff that isn’t true and can’t be checked.’
Revenge, published today, recounts a visit to London in 2016 in which Meghan allegedly ‘went ballistic’ after being booked into a five-star hotel with a caged parrot on display. Meghan, then an actress on US legal drama Suits, was in the city to discuss a new book based on her popular lifestyle blog The Tig. It was said that her talent agency had arranged ‘with difficulty’ free accommodation for Meghan in a five-star hotel, in exchange for an appearance in the hotel’s magazine and social media posts.
But en route to her room, the book claims Meghan passed a parrot in a cage and refused to stay. Meghan checked out of the hotel and the agency made a new reservation at the Soho Hotel. Shortly afterwards Meghan is said to have joined her literary agent for a lunch meeting about proposed The Tig book, titled Think Beautiful. Pictured: Meghan in the show Suits.
Bower writes: ‘Over the previous months, many at the agency had become wary of their client. They thought Meghan’s mood was unpredictable. Regularly she called the agency to demand they make reservations at restaurants or events in anticipation of her arrival in London. Inevitably, she would cancel or change her requirements.’
Bower writes that Meghan proceeded to ‘direct her venom’ at the agent because she was unhappy with his decision to include a chapter about sexual attraction in her book. ‘She seemed to delight in humiliating people,’ the book continues. The literary agent reportedly described Meghan as ‘one of the most unpleasant people we’ve ever dealt with’. A separate anecdote claims the then actress demanded first class flights and luxury accommodation after being booked on a film shoot in London in 2015. One of her co-stars on the film described Meghan as ‘high-maintenance’.
