Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton Congratulated Princess Beatrice on Her Wedding in Completely Different Ways

Finding Freedom is still about a week away, and yet royal fans have already enjoyed a veritable feast of inside Sussex knowledge courtesy of authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.

Meghan Markle is said to have gifted Kate Middleton with a Smythson notebook when the pair first met in January 2017. According to the new bombshell royal biography Finding Freedom, which details Harry and Meghan’s decision to step back from the royal family, the Duchess off Sussex surprised Kate with the special gift.

Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton are now an ocean apart from one another, but even when the two duchesses lived in the same palace, their relationship was a complicated one. In the new tell-all,, royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand share new insight into the relationship between the wives of Prince Harry and Prince William. «I was always told that there was never a catfight as such, between the two girls.

A new tell-all book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s exit from the British royal family claims that Markle and Kate Middleton have had plenty of “awkward moments” during their relationship. However, the sisters-in-law have never been “at war with each other” like some UK tabloids have claimed.

Meghan Markle was hoping for Kate Middleton to reach out, according to a new book.

Prince Harry and Prince William's rumored rift in recent years, and an upcoming book,, attempts to offer insight.

a new excerpt from a forthcoming book written by royal reporters Omid Scobie and ELLE.com royal contributor Carolyn Durand reveals the sisters-in-law "struggled to move past the distant politeness of when they first met." The passage from Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family, published today by the U.K.

Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton’s relationship was strained from the start.

Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton's relationship "struggled to move past the distant politeness of when they first met."Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand's new book, Finding Freedom, details what familial relations between the Cambridges and Sussexes were really like.Meghan and Kate are described as having a "cordial but distant rapport." Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family amazon.com $27.99 $19.59 (30% off) READ NOW BAZAAR's Royal Editor at Large, Omid Scobie,

Princess Beatrice allegedly made a "last minute request" to borrow her grandmother the Queen's dress for her surprise wedding.The 31 year old wore a Sir Norman Hartnell diamanté encrusted taffeta gown from Her Majesty to marry Italian property developer Edoard Mapelli Mozzi, 36, in Windsor on Friday, 17 July.The Queen wore the same gown to the royal premiere of Lawrence of Arabia at London's Leicester Square back in December 1962.

Following the latest royal wedding, royal experts have since weighed in on how Princess Beatrice’s wedding was similar to Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton’s—and apparently, it’s all thanks to one important yet easy-to-miss tradition. That is, unless you’ve ever been a bride. For anyone else who’s gone through the headache and joy of wedding planning, you’d know that this particular item in question can be *just* as important as the dress.