Meghan Markle’s former girlfriend claims the Duchess left her while she was dating Prince Harry
Megan Markle has been repeatedly accused of pushing people out of her life after she began seriously dating Prince Harry.
One of those people, British reality TV star Millie Mackintosh, has opened up about her experience with Markle for the first time.
Speaking on her Mumlemmas & More podcast, Mackintosh explained that she’s been asked multiple times about her friendship with the Duchess of Sussex media companies around the worldbut she wanted to wait until she was comfortable telling her story and had a platform to speak directly without fear of being edited or her words misinterpreted.
Mackintosh said she met Markle about eight years ago while attending a hotel opening in Istanbul. She admitted she was a fan because Markle’s show “Suits” was still broadcast at the time. They met while ordering drinks at the bar and struck up a conversation.
Millie Mackintosh and Meghan Markle were friends before the Duchess of Sussex started seriously dating Prince Harry. (Joe Maher/BAFTA/WPA Pool)
“We hit it off really well,” Mackintosh said. “We hit it off like a house on fire and spent the night partying and having fun, and we kept in touch.”
When Markle later went to London, Mackintosh said the former actress really didn’t know anything about the city, nor did she know anyone there.
“So we hung out together. We went to brunch, we went to yoga, we went for a walk… I took her to my favorite places,” Mackintosh recalled.
At the time, Mackintosh was going through a difficult period in her marriage, which eventually led to divorce. Since Markle was divorced from his first husband a few years ago Trevor Engelson At that point, they had “quite a lot to talk about” and the talks had been “connected.”
Several people have spoken out about how Meghan Markle suddenly banned her from her life when she started dating Prince Harry. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
“I’m definitely not saying we were best friends,” Mackintosh clarified, “but when she was in town, she’d let me know. And sometimes we hung out together.”
Mackintosh said the last time they saw each other was when Markle was staying at a hotel and invited her to stop by. They spent a “really fun afternoon” having “rosé and margaritas in the pool.”
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Millie Mackintosh starred in British reality show Made in Chelsea. (Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images)
At some point during the day, Markle revealed to her that she had been casually speaking to Prince Harry, and while Mackintosh thought it was “great,” she “didn’t think too much about it at the time.”
“If only I had known,” she laughed.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been together since 2016. (Angela Weiss)
Mackintosh couldn’t remember exactly how long had elapsed between this conversation and the public disclosure Harry and Markle’s relationship. But after the message “blew up,” she tried to get in touch with her old friend.
“So I texted her and just said, ‘Hey, I hope you’re okay, I’m thinking of you,’ and she just sent me this really abrupt message that was really different from all of her communications before,” she said she reveals.
“It wasn’t like I asked her if it was true,” she continued, “I didn’t care. It was none of my business. I just asked ‘Are you okay?’ And what I gleaned from that message was that maybe she needed some space, that she needed to cool down, that she was angry, that maybe she was under a lot of pressure.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the parents of Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. (Chris Jackson)
“I didn’t text her again. I wanted to keep it going, but I was expecting we’d keep in touch “It’s kind of stressful right now,” anything.
Instead, Mackintosh “never heard from her again. I also stopped texting because I felt like in that text she was basically just telling me to go away.”
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“Meghan Markle ghosted me baby,” Mackintosh joked.
She said her instincts at the time told her Markle essentially believed, “Right, I’m going to be royal now, I don’t need Millie in my life.”
Meghan Markle’s family also says she has cut ties with them. (Max Mumby/Indigo)
“What could I offer her at this point?” Mackintosh asked. “She had met her prince, you know. I was on a reality show.”
Mackintosh later added what hurt her “most” was that the media assumed they were close friends because she had posted a photo with Markle before all of this, suggesting Mackintosh was the one who introduced Markle and Harry. Mackintosh said several times over the course of the podcast that she had never met him.
Mackintosh felt she’d been trashed with speculation about why she hadn’t been “invited to the royal wedding,” even though Markle had “ghosted” her long before that.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry left England as they retired from active service with the Royals. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, file)
Lizzie Cundy, a British model and television presenter, spoke to Fox News Digital Earlier this month and told a similar story.
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She even recalled that during their friendship, Markle had told her that she wanted to be on Made in Chelsea, the reality show starring Mackintosh.
Meghan Markle skipped King Charles’ coronation to stay home with her kids. (AP)
Cundy said she too was “spooked”, explaining: “I get it. I was a little sad because I thought we hit it off very well and there was no one happier than I that she was meeting Harry. I mean, look.” , she won the lottery.
“He was the most popular king. We all loved Harry and were so lucky that he met the love of his life. Everyone in England hugged her and loved her.”
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“And I soon saw that she [did] “That’s true for a lot of people,” Cundy added. “Looking back, I think people had a purpose in their lives.” When you had fulfilled your purpose, she moved on to the next. I believe she is. Meghan gets what Meghan wants.
Fox News Digital’s Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this report.