Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have scored a huge win after their much-talked-about appearance in New York.
A renowned reporter has penned a lengthy letter denying a recently-published story about Markle.
This week, in a drip-drip manner, many extracts from Tom Bower‘s upcoming book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors, were published in the media.
In one of the excerpts via The Times of London, Bower revealed that journalist Sam Kashner claimed that he was “played” by Meghan Markle as they collaborated for the cover and interview in Vanity Fair in September 2017.
Telling the truth. Buried deep within the letters section of today's @thetimes is a note from journalist Sam Kashner, who denies biographer Tom Bower's negative account of his experience interviewing Meghan Markle for Vanity Fair in 2017. pic.twitter.com/Y58lPLDcvw
— Omid Scobie (@scobie) July 19, 2022
Kashner wrote a piece titled “Meghan Markle, Wild About Harry!” for the magazine. It was the first time Markle publicly admitted to being in a relationship with Prince Harry.
Markle stated: “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 people will understand 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 pair had been dating since July 2016. Tom Bower claimed that Prince Harry’s then-girlfriend “played” the reporter behind the scene by telling him: “You’re not like a typical journalist, and she liked him because of his stutter.”
Bower said in his new book: “Both knew that a lot was riding on the interview, and both understood that the critical issue of Harry had been vetoed. Meghan spoke, he realized, knowing that she had the winning ticket but avoiding giving an impression of triumphalism.”
Sam Kashner wrote in The Times of London that he was and is still found of Markle for the following reasons: “Sir, I’m afraid Tom Bower didn’t convey my admiration and respect for Meghan Markle in the excerpt of his new book in The Times on Saturday. I found Ms. Markle to be exceptionally warm and gracious and admired her intelligence and remarkable courage, as I still do.”
Kashner also revealed that he regretted not adding her story of writing to Procter & Gamble to change their sexist slogan or her claim that she received a letter from then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, who backed her in her fight.
The reporter said that he wished Markle’s stories were not edited out because “I’d wanted to highlight her lifelong activism.”
He concluded by: “One more thing, I do not have a stutter. I may hem and haw a bit, but a stammer is not a stutter, and as far as I know, Ms. Markle never said she liked me because of it!”
The British author also claimed that Meghan Markle was in hysterics when the cover came out, and it caused the Palace great anger.
Bower wrote: “She complained because she wasn’t presented in the way she wanted. She demanded the media do what she expected. I felt manipulated.”
Observers say this is an important win for the Duchess of Sussex.
