Kate Middleton Upset With Meghan Markle For 'Losing Her Temper' With Staff, Author Claims

Meghan Markle allegedly left Kate Middleton upset after the Duchess of Sussex “slightly lost her temper” with one of the Duchess of Cambridge’s staff.

Tom Quinn, who wrote “Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle,” said he spoke with palace insiders about Markle and Middleton’s relationship and learned about an incident between the two duchesses that left the wife of Prince William upset.

Quinn reportedly claimed that the former “Suits” star didn’t feel that she was being treated the same way as the mom-of-three while she and Prince Harry were still living in the U.K. The author apparently told the Daily Star that the Sussexes lived in Nottingham Cottage, which he described as what “you genuinely really could say, is actually quite small.”

The biographer presumably believes that the residence reminded Markle that “she was, as it were, second place or as the runner-up.” Quinn further narrated to the publication how she seemingly lost it with Middleton’s staff.

“So when Harry and Will got together and sometimes Meghan and Kate as well, because there was this tension occasionally, famously Meghan slightly lost her temper with a member of Kate's staff in front of Kate,” Quinn learned from unnamed Kensington Palace sources.

Quinn claimed to have spoken to a person who was there when the incident allegedly happened and learned that the situation became uncomfortable. This unfortunate event reportedly made Markle feel that the staff didn’t give her the attention she deserved.

"It was almost as if in that one encounter, it encapsulated for Meghan the problem that she had, that she's a Princess and she's number two. She was very successful, coming into this alien environment where people behave towards you according to where you are in the status of who becomes King or Queen next, that's just alien to her,” Quinn claimed.

The incident began when Markle allegedly asked Middleton’s staff to do something for her, but the person declined, saying “I'm really sorry I can't do that because I work for Kate.” Quinn claimed that “the way it was described to me was, there were raised voices and foot-stamping.”

Quinn went on to say that Markle somehow felt she was put in her place. Middleton was allegedly “horrified” and “really upset” that the Duchess of Sussex had done that to a staff member whom she was so fond of.

"She's very sensitive about not being treated with the same respect that she feels Kate is, so can react badly and doesn't take it lying down,” Quinn said.

This is not the first time that rumors of tension between Middleton and Markle have surfaced.

In 2018, The Telegraph reported that Middleton and Markle had a fight while the royal family was preparing for the former actress' wedding to Prince Harry. Two separate sources claimed that the Duchess of Cambridge “left in tears following a bridesmaids dress fitting for Princess Charlotte.”

In May, Tatler released a follow-up to this story. Sources who spoke to the outlet reportedly said (via Daily Mail) that the argument had been over whether or not Princess Charlotte and the other bridesmaids should wear tights. Middleton apparently wanted to follow protocol and add tights to their outfits for the wedding, but the Duchess of Sussex disagreed.

“There was an incident at the wedding rehearsal,” a source said. “It was a hot day and apparently there was a row over whether the bridesmaids should wear tights or not. Kate, following protocol, felt that they should. Meghan didn’t want them to.”

Markle seems to have emerged as the winner here, considering the photos that came out from the big fat wedding at Windsor Castle that shows bare-legged bridesmaids.