'Perhaps they can finally set the record straight about me': Meghan Markle's biographer Omid Scobie quotes email he claims she sent to Kensington Palace over flower girl row with Kate - so who showed him the message?

 The Duchess of Sussex's biographer has published an email in which she demands aides release a statement claiming Kate drove her to tears at a bridesmaid dress fitting.

Omid Scobie wrote yesterday that Harry and Meghan's exasperation with officials came to a head when Kensington Palace 'urgently requested' Harry join forces with them in co-signing a statement critical of a newspaper report.

He said the palace wanted him to deny an 'offensive' article in The Times in January 2020 which claimed that Prince William had 'constantly bullied' the Sussexes before they decided to quit royal duties.

He writes that a source revealed Meghan emailed an aide: 'Well, if we're just throwing any statement out there now, then perhaps KP can finally set the record straight about me [not making Kate cry].' He then says she asks why her side of the story was never considered important to anyone at the palace.

'But, as with many requests made by the couple, her suggestion was ignored,' he writes. 'The Duchess of Cambridge, she was told, should never be dragged into idle gossip.'