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The night before Meghan Markle married Prince Harry, she arrived at her hotel in a navy Roland Mouret dress. The soon-to-be Duchess of Sussex and the designer had a long history; the two had been friends since Meghan’s Suits days.
Mouret and Meghan reported met in a hotel elevator in Istanbul, when Mouret struck up a conversation. “This man in a bathrobe said, ‘I’d love to dress you,’” Meghan said. “I thought ‘whaaat?’ Then he told me who he was and we’ve been friends ever since.” That friendship reportedly soured during her royal days, according to an excerpt from Mouret’s forthcoming memoir, I Am Roland Mouret: The Butcher’s Boy Who Dressed the World. According to Mouret, a member of his staff reached out to the then-Duchess of Cambridge’s office instead of Meghan’s over the return of a dress.
“Meghan was furious and called me. ‘You don’t realise what you’ve done! You’ve embarrassed me,’” he writes. Meghan then reportedly told him, “You know now I can never wear your clothes again.”
Mouret says, “Meghan’s decision not to wear my clothes was hers, not the palace’s, not anybody else’s. I don’t think anyone else cared. I didn’t see the logic of that but I didn’t question it.” Despite Mouret’s claim, Meghan has worn Mouret designs in recent years, including in a February 2026 promotional image for As Ever.
Meghan wore numerous Mouret designs in her time as a working royal, including a gown she wore to the premiere of a Cirque du Soleil show, a sleek gray dress during a royal visit to Dublin, and a white skirt to a private visit to the National Theatre. The Princess of Wales also frequently wears his clothing, including most recently to the Wimbledon women’s finals and to Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling’s wedding.
Emily Burack (she/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.