Royal-watchers fear what Jessica Mulroney might say about Meghan Markle in potential tell-all

British newspapers are in a tizzy over the possibility that Jessica Mulroney may be writing a tell-all memoir, and that some of what she has to tell could be about her friend Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and wife of Prince Harry.

Mulroney is a fashion stylist, marketing consultant and the estranged wife of Ben Mulroney, son of the late prime minister Brian Mulroney. ( People magazine announced their split in July.)

Whether she remains close to Markle is one subject of speculation by the press. They no longer follow each other on social media, and seem to have had a falling-out in 2020, after Mulroney got into an online imbroglio with an influencer over issues around race.

The two are said to have met in 2011 when Markle was in Toronto filming the TV drama Suits. They bonded over shared interests — fashion, fitness and female empowerment. Mulroney even helped pick the wedding dress that Markle’s character, Rachel Zane, wore in her final episode of the legal show.

Fictional wedding bells turned to real ones in 2018 when Markle married Prince Harry and joined the British Royal Family. Mulroney was an attendant at the wedding, which included roles for her three children: Twins Brian and John were page boys while daughter Ivy served as a bridesmaid.

But friends (and even former friends) tend to have a lot of dirt on each other, which is what has royal-watchers in Britain concerned.

“Jessica knows where the bodies are buried. Meghan will be worried,” an insider told Britain’s Daily Mail this week. “She was once Meghan’s closest confidante and the keeper of her secrets. She knows everything.”

Whether she spills any beans, however, is contingent on whether she writes a book in the first place, and Mulroney has long denied that she any such plans.

SkyNews in Australia provided yet another denial this week when it quoted Mulroney as saying she would “never” pen a tell-all memoir on their friendship.

“Absolutely not,” she was quoted as saying when asked to comment on the speculation surrounding her might-be-damning, would-be autobiography.

Much of the conjecture should be taken with a grain of salt, given the nested nature of the information. National Post can report that Cosmopolitan has said that Britain’s Mirror has flagged (according to the Daily Mail) that “Jessica’s explosive story is the one publishers want to get their hands on.”

That information continues: “She could command up to a seven-figure dollar sum depending on what she is prepared to say. There’s huge interest in Jessica’s perspective and her time in the royal spotlight when friends with Meghan. People would rush to buy Jessica’s book to know what really happened between them. Hers is the real story royal watchers want to read and are asking for.”

That may be. But she’ll still have to write it first.

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