Meghan ended up sitting on the floor sobbing.

At least that's what we seem to know about the bridesmaid dress affair, which was more of a flower girl dress affair.

Prince Harry describes her quite extensively in his memoir "Reserve" ("Spare"), and at the time, in May 2018, when he married Meghan Markle, he did not consider it "a disaster", as he writes: "'Simply a misunderstanding ' I said to myself.' Especially since his sister-in-law Catherine stopped by the next morning with flowers and a card saying she was sorry.

Peter Philipp Schmitt

Editor in the department "Germany and the World".

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What happened?

It was four days before the wedding when Catherine got in touch with Meghan to say that daughter Charlotte had been crying because her dress - the three-year-old was one of the flower girls, Harry's book calls her a bridesmaid - for the wedding " too wide, too long, too bulky”.

The tailor, Meghan replied, is ready at Kensington Palace to change the clothes if necessary.

"No, the clothes all have to be made new," Catherine is said to have demanded.

It went back and forth like this for a while, and at the end Harry found his Meghan sobbing on the floor.

Originally there were reports that Catherine and not Meghan cried.

But Harry has since corrected that, and of course the palace is silent on the matter.

But now the tailor, who is immortalized by name in Harry's book and therefore felt the need to step forward, has commented on the incident for the first time.

He didn't notice the argument, but it's nothing unusual for brides to cry before the wedding, given all the stress, Ajay Mirpuri told the Daily Mail.

But he confirmed that all six of the flower girl dresses, which were made by Brit Clare Waight Keller, then head designer at Paris fashion house Givenchy, would not have fitted.

He and his staff worked around the clock for four days to save the situation.

"I'm a royalist," says the 45-year-old, "and I wanted to do everything I could with my small studio to please the royal family." Mirpuri regrets that the wedding was overshadowed by this affair.

"What should be talked about instead is that the six flower girls looked fabulous."