Meghan Markle’s recollections of race discrimination and campaigning for female empowerment as she grew up, have been questioned in an explosive new book on the Sussexes by author Tom Bower.
Both Harry and Meghan have spoken regularly about social causes and the fight to eradicate discrimination since they moved to the United States a little over two years ago.
Often Meghan has used examples from her childhood to highlight the need for change and the way that she has had to fight against the system.
But now Mr Bower in his new book “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors” has reportedly suggested that Meghan may have embellished some of these accounts.
It follows the bombshell interview with the Sussexes by Oprah Winfrey where the American presenter was told by Meghan that she had received racist comments from a royal.
Buckingham Palace famously avoids responding to allegations but following the Oprah interview the Queen did comment where she stated that “some recollections may vary”.
Mr Bower in his unofficial biography has looked at several moments that have been brought up by Meghan of when she was an adolescent and claims the situations may not have been exactly how she portrayed it.
There were race riots in Los Angeles neighbourhoods in 1992 following the acquittal of police officers for beating Rodney King and Meghan has said that she remembers it all well.
She said she could recall the curfew and “rushing back home and on that drive home, seeing ash fall from the sky and smelling the smoke and seeing people run out of buildings carrying bags and looting."
Meghan said the memories “don’t go away” and in a Vanity Fair interview she recalled seeing ash which she thought at the time was snow.
Mr Bowers claims that Meghan wasn’t in Los Angeles when the riots took place as her father Thomas Markle had ensured she didn’t see it.
“During the afternoon the riots started he drove her to Palm Springs,” wrote Mr Bower, reported the Daily Mail.
"There are serious doubts that Meghan saw any violence, not even the minor looting near the ABC studio (where Thomas Markle worked). After five days the curfew was lifted and they returned to Los Angeles."
The new book also reportedly referred to another well-known account from Meghan Markle where she fought for female empowerment at an early age in a dispute with Procter & Gamble.
She wrote to the firm and the then First Lady Hillary Clinton over a washing-up liquid advert which said that “Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans”.
After a battle with the company the advert was changed.
Yet Mr Bower claims that Meghan never received a reply from Procter & Gamble or Ms Clinton and that her dad Thomas wrote follow-up letters seeking a response but nothing happened.
Mr Markle reportedly claims that the letters were ignored by the company and Ms Clinton.
This new book comes before Prince Harry ’s memoir is due to be released later this year which has the Royal Family worried that he may make fresh allegations against them.
