bitchy | Mail: Duchess Meghan ‘threw her toys out of the pram’ over British Vogue in 2022

I’m telling you, it’s incredibly curious to watch as this “Edward Enninful beefed with the Duchess of Sussex” story is being promoted everywhere in the British media. It’s extremely odd, and it feels like we’ll find out what this is really about in a few weeks or months. Like, Enninful will be put in charge of something to do with King Charles’s foundation and suddenly things will click into place. Sidenote: I still remember the “Meghan wants a Dior contract” storyline, which was hyped for weeks, only for Camilla to stagger outside in Dior and bam, everything made sense. Anyway, in the past week, we’ve heard that Enninful and Meghan fell out in 2022 when she “demanded” a British Vogue cover, only he refused to give her one, and then he was mad because she didn’t want a non-cover feature. There’s also been a weird amount of historical revisionism around Meghan’s British Vogue guest-editorship in 2019. As I said, curious all around. Well, the Mail’s royalist talk show had even more nasty things to say about Meghan re: her falling out with Enninful.

There have long been rumours amid fashion circles that [Enninful and the Duchess of Sussex] fell out over a planned feature in British Vogue about the Duke and Duchess’s charitable work in 2022. Now, the Mail’s team of unrivalled royal experts have delved into the truth behind Meghan and Edward’s friendship on the latest episode of Palace Confidential, questioning whether the style stalwart has become an ‘honorary member’ of the ‘Sussex Survivors’ Club’.

‘One of Meghan’s friends was the editor of British Vogue,’ Richard Eden, the Daily Mail’s Diary Editor, said. ‘Or he certainly used to be…The video was them wearing party hats, and they talked about their shared love of mint tea. Anyway, they were besties for a while these two. Then it clearly went badly wrong and they did that classic modern thing of unfollowing each other on social media but it was known that they were really not on speaking terms anymore.’

Pointing to a ‘very interesting’ article in the Mail on Sunday written by his colleague Charlotte Griffiths, Richard said it reveals ‘what actually went wrong’.

‘Meghan was hoping that Enninful would run in Vogue a big number on the [Sussexes’] charitable work,’ he explained. ‘This is going back to 2022 and she was hoping there would be a special that was to coincide with Meghan’s appearance at the One Young World Summit. I think she hoped for a cover of Vogue as well as a big spread online as well as the magazine. But it didn’t happen.’

Although the Duchess is said to have been relaxed with ‘no expectations’, her team supposedly had ‘high expectations for the piece’. A source told the MoS they were ‘expecting she might get a print cover or at least a digital cover out of it, but Enninful was not able to meet those expectations. ‘He already had a magazine cover in the bag for that month.’

Adding his own commentary on Palace Confidential, Richard said: ‘I think the problem was he had already designated a cover to the great former supermodel Linda Evangelista. It was a really striking cover and presumably they had been negotiating for ages.’

According to insiders, Meghan’s project needed a full production team including photographers, videographers, stylists and editors to shoot exclusive images and film an in-depth video feature with the royal couple. Shelving it is said to have caused irreparable damage to Meghan and Edward’s friendship.

‘Edward was furious to have lost the project, as were the powers that be at Conde Nast,’ a source told the MoS. The newspaper approached the Duchess of Sussex and Enninful for comment.

Richard added: ‘Meghan was so disappointed that it sounds like she threw her toys out of the pram and never spoke to Edward again.’

Turning back to her role as host, Jo turned to Rebecca and said: ‘On another note, the Sussexes do fall out with a lot of people, don’t they?’

‘I wonder if Edward Enninful has been given honorary membership of the Sussex Survivors Club?’ Rebecca said. ‘Oh, he may well have a t-shirt,’ Jo joked. ‘He could design the t-shirt.’

[From The Daily Mail]

None of this matters, but it’s driving me crazy that no one is worried that this story makes zero sense. Meghan wanted a cover, but really she didn’t have huge expectations, Enninful told her she wouldn’t get the cover, and it would have been really expensive to shoot a feature, but she turned down a feature and Enninful’s bosses were furious, no money was spent on the expensive feature which Meghan turned down, Meghan threw her toys out of the pram by turning down the feature, and Enninful and Meghan unfollowed each other on social media, even though she wasn’t on Instagram in 2022. Like, what are we doing here? And why all of the Enninful/Vogue stories in 2025? Something is going to happen to make this story click into place, I promise.

Enninful has been all over Cannes this week. Interesting.

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