{"id":2237249,"date":"2026-01-16T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2237249"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:47:02","slug":"meghan-markle-didnt-extend-olive-branch-to-kate-middleton-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meghan-markle-didnt-extend-olive-branch-to-kate-middleton-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Didn&#8217;t Extend &#8216;Olive Branch&#8217; To Kate Middleton | Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n                <span class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\">By Molly Claire Goddard<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"time\" itemprop=\"datePublished dateModified\">1:32pm PST, Jan 15, 2026<\/span>\n            <\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery-slider-details\" data-value=\"1\" data-id=\"910846\" data-key=\"1\" data-title=\"\">\n<h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAccording to former royal butler <strong>Grant Harrold<\/strong>, Meghan Markle should&#8217;ve wished Kate Middleton a happy birthday on social media on January 9. &#8220;With Meghan returning to social media in recent months, this could be the opportunity for an olive branch,&#8221; he told <em>AceOdds<\/em> via <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2155455\/meghan-markle-princess-kate-birthday\">Daily Express<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;Now that there is a rumor that relations are improving and that things are on the mend, it is possible that they could do that. It would send a very, very loud message if she posted her birthday wishes online.&#8221;                <\/div>\n<p><h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA birthday greeting from Meghan Markle to Kate Middleton could have signaled a positive change for the family. &#8220;If they were to put something out publicly, everybody around the world would be saying, &#8216;Oh wow, they are speaking again.&#8217; At the moment, while whatever is going on is still happening behind closed doors, I think it is unlikely that we will see any kind of public message right now,&#8221; Grant Harrold said. <\/p>\n<p><h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWhile Meghan Markle didn&#8217;t send Kate Middleton public well wishes, Grant Harrold thinks there&#8217;s goodwill behind the scenes. &#8220;I absolutely believe that privately there will be birthday wishes \u2014 whether that is a phone call, a video call, birthday cards being sent, and possibly even gifts,&#8221; Grant Harrold said. <\/p>\n<p><h5 class=\"text-title\">_<\/h5>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tKate Middleton and Meghan Markle have never been particularly close. &#8220;Even when [Prince] William and Kate came over, and I met her for the first time, they came over for dinner, I remember I was in ripped\u00a0jeans, and I was barefoot,&#8221; the <em>Suits <\/em>actress recalled in their Netflix docuseries\u00a0<em>Harry &amp; Meghan<\/em>. &#8220;Like I was a hugger, I&#8217;ve always been a hugger. I didn&#8217;t realize that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wonderwall.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Molly Claire Goddard 1:32pm PST, Jan 15, 2026 _ According to former royal butler Grant Harrold, Meghan Markle should&#8217;ve wished Kate Middleton a happy birthday on social media on January 9. &#8220;With Meghan returning to social media in recent months, this could be the opportunity for an olive branch,&#8221; he told AceOdds via Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2237250,"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":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meghan-Markle-Didnt-Extend-Olive-Branch-To-Kate-Middleton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237249","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=2237249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237251,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237249\/revisions\/2237251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}