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| The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their wedding day, May 2018 (Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty Images) |
All right, everybody. I think it's finally time to delve into a topic that has been requested consistently for almost two years: the reported conflict that cropped up between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and palace staff over Meghan's wedding tiara. I've avoided writing about the subject in the past for a couple of reasons. For one, the jewelry-centric details of the story just don't totally make sense. And for another, this isn't a website devoted to gossip about the royals. But as more and more versions of the story have been published, I think that a website devoted to facts and history about royal jewels may be the perfect place to straighten out what we know—and what we don't know—about the story that some in the press have begun calling "tiaragate."
So far, we've essentially heard three different versions of the story. All have one thing in common: in February 2018, Harry and Meghan went to Buckingham Palace to choose Meghan's wedding tiara. Afterward, some sort of conflict ensued. Exactly when that conflict happened, and with whom, and for what reason, are the big differences between the three accounts.
