KATE& MEGHAN: No truce in 2024

We look at where it all went wrong between the sisters-in-law, and what's in store this year

It is fair to say, following last year's revelations from the Sussex camp, that Kate and Meghan are not destined to co-found a mutual appreciation society. They are both very strong-willed women cut from very different cloth and right from the very start of their relationship, it was an open secret that they were struggling to develop a close and easy-going friendship.

From the 'awkward' moment Kate 'grimaced' over Meghan borrowing her lip gloss to rows over baby brain hormones, in January 2023 Harry's blistering memoir, Spare, confirmed reports the pair never really hit it off 'from the get-go'.

Then in November, thanks to Omid Scobie's Endgame and one almighty printing 'error' in the Dutch translation of the book, the author blew the lid off the Royal Family's very own can of worms, exacerbating the sisters-in-law rift.

Kate 'shudders' at Meghan

Scobie reignited the race row - first referenced by Meghan in the couple's March 2021 bombshell Oprah interview - by naming Kate (alongside Charles) allegedly raising 'concerns' about the skin colour of Meghan's unborn baby, Archie.

Scobie refuted naming Kate and Charles, but soon made a U-turn admitting he did name them in an 'early' version of the book, printed in the Netherlands. The Dutch versions were immediately pulped but not before damage to Kate and Charles’s reputation was done. Elsewhere in the book, Kate is described as ‘cold’ and ‘a Stepford Wife’, and is said to ‘shudder’ whenever Meghan’s name is mentioned.