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Richard Eden weighed in on a royal wedding item that proved to be a "source of some arguments" (Image: Aaron Chown/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
A row that allegedly erupted over a lavish wedding item "set a bad tone" for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's relationship with the Royal Family, an expert has claimed.
In a recent episode of Reading the Royals, the Daily Mail's royal expert, Richard Eden, weighed in on a tiara worn by Meghan, known as Queen Mary's Bandeau Tiara, which proved to be a "source of some arguments".
He claimed there had been "tensions" about which tiara Meghan would wear for the occasion, with arrangements for selecting one proving "quite difficult".
Richard explained that the late Queen Elizabeth's aide, Angela Kelly, was in charge of the jewellery, but there had ultimately been "some argument" over the headpiece.
He said:"But then in Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, he confirmed it all. He said there had been a big row and essentially, it was because they felt that Angela Kelly was getting too big for her boots."
Queen Mary's Bandeau Tiara is reportedly worth a whopping £2million (Image: Gareth Fuller/WPA/Getty Images)
Richard continued: "She was not turning up; she was not agreeing to dates when they thought Meghan could see them and it was a sign that...full of, sort of bitterness, really, that Harry felt that Meghan wasn't being treated as she should.
"That, you know, everyone should show her great respect and here was, you know, a servant, as he saw it, who was just being quite difficult and obstructive.
"And it was one of those things that really, sort of, set a bad tone for the marriage and their relationship with the Royal Family."
Queen Mary's Bandeau Tiara is reportedly worth a whopping £2million and set with large and small brilliant diamonds and features a brooch with ten brilliant diamonds, according to the Royal Collection Trust.
Richard claimed there had been "tensions" about which tiara Meghan would wear for the occasion (Image: Owen Humphreys/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Following their wedding in 2018, Harry and Meghan stepped back from their Royal duties and moved to Montecito, California, where they live with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
It was reported in August that Meghan had selected a different tiara for the wedding, the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik, but was apparently refused as nobody could trace its origin.
However, Princess Eugenie was wearing the £10 million item at her wedding to Jack Brooksbank later that year. The Queen is said to have initially prevented the wearing of the tiara due to a "controversy", according to Maxwell Stone from Steven Stone.
He said: "Thought to have come from Russia, the headpiece is said to have found its way into the collection through undefined channels."
Maxwell added that, according to reports, the tiara "isn’t the mystery that we once thought" and is believed to be the Greville Emerald Kokoshnik.
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