Despite what seemed to be their disdain for her while she was alive—or, at minimum, a lack of understanding of her—Omid Scobie writes in his new book Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival that the Palace pushed both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle to dress like their late mother-in-law, Princess Diana.
We’ve certainly seen both Kate and Meghan’s sartorial tributes to the former Princess of Wales over the years but assumed that it was because they wanted to pay homage, and not because they were being cajoled to by the so-called powers that be. Kate and Meghan felt “gentle pushes” to replicate Diana’s style, and that decisions to dress Kate and Meghan like Diana were “always discussed” with their respective husbands, Prince William and Prince Harry. (Which is odd in and of itself.)
