Emma watson gave Meghan Markle cold-shoulder

• Meghan Markle has expressed support for Emma Watson’s HeForShe campaign.
• The Duchess attended a conference in London where Ms. Watson spoke.
• Meghan reportedly asked to meet her “hero and role model”.

The now Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle has often expressed her support for Emma Watson’s HeForShe project, a campaign that was started in 2014 to promote gender equality.

Meghan Markle attended a conference in London where Ms. Watson spoke on behalf of the cause while she was one of the stars of the TV show Suits.

Now, investigative journalist Tom Bower has alleged that Meghan had requested to meet the fellow actress after the event, but her request was denied, in a new biography focusing on the Duchess titled “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors.”

In a passage from his book that The Times published, Mr. Bower wrote:

“During a trip to London she went to a small meeting addressed by Emma Watson, her hero and role model.

“At the end, she asked to meet Watson.

“The actress rejected the request. The snub was mortifying.

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“Watson’s rebuff was not mentioned when Meghan described her UN role in The Tig.

“‘I was in London’, she wrote to her followers, ‘to support Emma Watson in her HeForShe Initiative for UN Women’.”

In a piece from The Tig that Mr. Bower cited, Meghan also discussed her work as the UN Women Advocate for Women’s Leadership & Political Participation and the impactful speech she gave in front of, among others, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The future Duchess had previously discussed Ms. Watson and her HeForShe campaign in a blog post from 2014, which is now outdated.

Meghan referred to attending the HeForShe inaugural ceremony at the UN headquarters as a “amazing honour” in her post.

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She was sitting “directly across from UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson, as she delivered an inimitable speech on feminism.” the woman recalled.

Meghan and Ms. Watson reconnected in October 2016 at the conference hosted by One Young World, a group dedicated to discovering, connecting, and supporting young leaders, in Ottawa, Canada.

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