{"id":121946,"date":"2025-05-22T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121946\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:33:08","slug":"princess-kate-debunks-meghan-markle-brutal-claim-about-royal-family-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/121946\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate debunks Meghan Markle brutal claim about Royal Family | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Kate<\/a> has debunked a claim once made by Meghan Markle<\/a> during her latest royal appearance at a Buckingham Palace garden party. The Princess of Wales, 43, stepped out in the gardens of the Palace on Tuesday<\/a> with her husband Prince William<\/a> and other royals by her side to meet people from all across the UK.<\/p>\n

While the princess caught the attention of royal fans with her sunshine yellow dress<\/a>, she also warmed the hearts of many by hugging members of the public. As sweet as this gesture was, it also debunked claims made by Meghan Markle<\/a> in 2022 that suggested Kate, and her husband, were not fans of hugging.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the 2022 Netflix<\/a> docuseries Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex spoke about the moment she first met the couple together, and made the suggestion that William, 42, and Kate, found hugging \u201cjarring\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

She said: \u201cWhen Will and Kate came over and I was meeting her (Kate) for the first time I remember, I was in ripped jeans, I was barefoot.<\/p>\n

“Like, I was a hugger, I have always been a hugger. I didn’t realize that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started to understand that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside.”<\/p>\n

However, Kate certainly didn\u2019t seem to find hugging \u201cjarring\u201d yesterday at the garden party, instead proving that quite the opposite was true.<\/p>\n

Like on most royal engagements she does, the princess could be seen putting people at ease, sharing laughs and giving hugs – something Kate has done time and time again over the years.<\/a> This was praised by royal fans online, with one even dubbing Kate \u201cthe Princess of hugs\u201d after a picture of Kate hugging Holocaust survivor Steven Frank at the garden party circulated online yesterday.<\/p>\n

One fan wrote on X: \u201cShe is a hugger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another said: \u201cAnd who said the royals didn\u2019t hug! This is pure joy at seeing someone..not something staged for the cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n

Someone else wrote: \u201cHow lovely to see this . He must be so happy to have his big hug from Catherine.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time the princess has been seen hugging the public, with Kate often showing affection to members of the public<\/a> on royal engagements over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Kate has debunked a claim once made by Meghan Markle during her latest royal appearance at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[8606,54298,54299,54300,54297,49739,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-121946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-princess-kate","9":"tag-princess-kate-garden-party","10":"tag-princess-kate-hugs","11":"tag-princess-kate-meghan-claims","12":"tag-princess-kate-meghan-markle","13":"tag-princess-kate-royal-family","14":"tag-royal","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114550328701542804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}