{"id":548982,"date":"2025-11-04T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/548982\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:21:12","slug":"royal-family-live-meghan-markles-jaw-dropping-demands-to-charity-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/548982\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan Markle&#8217;s jaw-dropping demands to charity | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle once had a number of requests when taking part in a charity trip to Rwanda, it has been claimed. The Duchess of Sussex, before <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/life\/962015\/Harry-and-Meghan-wedding-pictures-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-wedding-day-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marrying Prince Harry,<\/a> was an \u201cambassador\u201d for the Canadian part of the charity World Vision.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Meghan, 44, was still <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/2023934\/meghan-markle-confession-suits-co-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working as an actress on the hit show Suits.<\/a> She was asked by the charity to do a high-profile visit to Rwanda to be part of a film about the charity&#8217;s work to build water wells. This visit took place in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is believed Meghan had a list of demands before taking part, with the duchess reportedly insisting on first-class travel, a two-man entourage and several suitcases of outfits. Veteran royal biographer Tom Bower wrote in his 2023 book Revenge: &#8220;The actress insisted on flying to Rwanda first-class and be accompanied by Gabor Jurina, a Canadian fashion photographer. Michael Goyette, an American hair and makeup-stylist was also listed as travelling with Gabor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bower claimed that Meghan&#8217;s demands exceeded the budget for the trip, with the film&#8217;s producer Brenda Surminski reportedly forced to drop out as a result.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. ALL UPDATES CAN BE FOUND BELOW.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle once had a number of requests when taking part in a charity trip to Rwanda, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,176122,176123,176124,69727,519,47437,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-548982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-meghan-markle-charity","10":"tag-meghan-markle-demands","11":"tag-meghan-markle-rwanda","12":"tag-meghan-markle-suits","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royal-family-live-meghan-markle","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115492820498437428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548982","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=548982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}