Kate Middleton has unveiled a list of her favorite children’s books, but did not include Meghan Markle‘s story The Bench—missing an opportunity to extend an olive branch to her sister-in-law.
The Duchess of Cambridge picked five titles for the Reading Room, a literacy project set up by her husband’s stepmother, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Kate’s choices included Charlotte’s Web—which she described as “loved in our house for obvious reasons” in an apparent reference to her and Prince William‘s daughter Princess Charlotte—but not Meghan’s story, which was inspired by Prince Harry‘s relationship with their son Archie.
Although there is no reason that Kate would be obliged to pick her sister-in-law’s book, had she done so it would have been a significant overture of friendship following the rift between the Sussexes and the Cambridges.
The announcement of the future queen’s choices comes almost one year after the broadcast of Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which Meghan said she had been wrongly accused of making Kate cry during a bridesmaid’s dress fitting before her wedding in May 2018.
Meghan told Oprah: “The reverse happened. And I don’t say that to be disparaging to anyone, because it was a really hard week of the wedding. And she was upset about something, but she owned it, and she apologized. And she brought me flowers and a note, apologizing.
“She did what I would do if I knew that I hurt someone, right, to just take accountability for it.”
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