The relationship between Meghan Markle<\/strong> and her sister-in-law Princess Kate <\/strong>has been ice cold for years now, and royal butler Paul Burrell\u00a0<\/strong>thinks he knows when the chill first set in. Burrell, 67, a former footman for Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong> and butler to Princess Diana<\/strong>, is telling all in his upcoming book\u00a0The Royal Insider<\/em>, and an excerpt published by the Daily Mail<\/a><\/em> digs into the rift between the former Suits\u00a0<\/em>star, 44, and the Princess of Wales, 43.<\/p>\n Burrell takes readers back to when Meghan and Prince Harry<\/strong> were newly engaged. \u201cMeghan seemed to have saved him,\u201d he writes. The California native had moved in with Harry at Nottingham Cottage, a small, 17th century, two bedroom house on the grounds of Kensington Palace. Nicknamed \u201cNott Cott,\u201d it is where Harry, 40, popped the question over roast chicken in 2017. (Post-Megxit, on their 2022 Netflix special Harry & Meghan<\/em>, the couple joked about the \u201creally low ceilings\u201d where Harry would hit his head.)<\/p>\n Prince William<\/strong> and Kate resided in Kensington Palace\u2019s apartment 1A at the time, and according to Burrell, though close in proximity, their digs were a world away. Meghan got wind of her in-laws newly renovated luxury apartment, complete with a ballroom, the first time she and Harry were invited over for dinner, writes Burrell, and, \u201cThis may be where the trouble began.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEGA; James Whatling The relationship between Meghan Markle and her sister-in-law Princess Kate has been ice cold for years now, and royal butler Paul Burrell\u00a0thinks he knows when the chill first set in. Burrell, 67, a former footman for Queen Elizabeth II and butler to Princess Diana, is telling all in his upcoming book\u00a0The Royal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2002512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Meghan-Markle-Became-Jealous-of-Princess-Kate-at-This-Moment.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/william_harry_MEGA894282_013.jpg_master-scaled.jpg\")