{"id":243210,"date":"2025-11-04T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243210\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:42:07","slug":"royal-family-live-meghan-markles-jaw-dropping-demands-to-charity-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243210\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Meghan Markle&#8217;s jaw-dropping demands to charity | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle once had a number of requests when taking part in a charity trip to Rwanda, it has been claimed. The Duchess of Sussex, before <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/life\/962015\/Harry-and-Meghan-wedding-pictures-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-wedding-day-photos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">marrying Prince Harry,<\/a> was an \u201cambassador\u201d for the Canadian part of the charity World Vision.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Meghan, 44, was still <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/2023934\/meghan-markle-confession-suits-co-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">working as an actress on the hit show Suits.<\/a> She was asked by the charity to do a high-profile visit to Rwanda to be part of a film about the charity&#8217;s work to build water wells. This visit took place in January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is believed Meghan had a list of demands before taking part, with the duchess reportedly insisting on first-class travel, a two-man entourage and several suitcases of outfits. Veteran royal biographer Tom Bower wrote in his 2023 book Revenge: &#8220;The actress insisted on flying to Rwanda first-class and be accompanied by Gabor Jurina, a Canadian fashion photographer. Michael Goyette, an American hair and makeup-stylist was also listed as travelling with Gabor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bower claimed that Meghan&#8217;s demands exceeded the budget for the trip, with the film&#8217;s producer Brenda Surminski reportedly forced to drop out as a result.<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. ALL UPDATES CAN BE FOUND BELOW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle once had a number of requests when taking part in a charity trip to Rwanda, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,102172,102174,102175,102173,223,14210,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-243210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-meghan-markle-charity","tag-meghan-markle-demands","tag-meghan-markle-rwanda","tag-meghan-markle-suits","tag-royal-family","tag-royal-family-live-meghan-markle","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}