Soon after, according to Roland, their friendship took a turn.
“Meghan and Harry’s relationship became public,” Roland noted in his memoir. “Then the same team member who had sent the clothes for Meghan decided, in an honest attempt to be efficient, to call Kate’s stylist at the palace and ask for Meghan’s dresses to be returned.”
“Meghan was furious and called me. ‘You don’t realise what you’ve done! You’ve embarrassed me!’” Roland recalled her saying, to which he responded, “’No, Meghan, it was just a mistake by someone who didn’t know. My apologies. I know it’s not good for you and you want to do things privately.’”
She then told him she “can never wear your clothes again,” and while he “didn’t see the logic of that” he also “didn’t question it.”
“Meghan’s decision not to wear my clothes was hers, not the palace’s, not anybody else’s. I don’t think anyone else cared,” he mused. “But the following year, I saw a photo of her out in a cheap high street copy of one of my designs. I messaged her: ‘I can understand if you don’t wear my stuff, but if it’s to wear a cheap copy then that’s ridiculous. Come back.’”
