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<p>It was <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-prince-william-and-kate-middleton-are-raising-the-new-royal-superstars">Kate Middleton</a> who insisted that the famous phrase “recollections may vary” was left in Buckingham Palace’s official response to claims of racial insensitivity made by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-have-finally-moved-out-of-frogmore-cottage">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle</a> in their interview with Oprah Winfrey, it was claimed Friday.</p>
<p>“Steely” Kate’s involvement in pressing “home” the case for using the phrase is revealed in a new chapter of the paperback version of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/meghan-did-desperately-unhappy-harry-the-greatest-kindness-by-getting-him-out-of-royal-life">Valentine Low’s</a> bestselling book <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/courtiers/valentine-low/9781472290922">Courtiers</a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kate-harry-meghan-valentine-low-courtiers-30wsms50q?t=ie">excerpted Friday in the London Times</a>. Low is also the royal correspondent for the Times.</p>
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It was Kate Middleton who insisted that the famous phrase “recollections may vary” was left in Buckingham Palace’s official response to claims of racial insensitivity made by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in their interview with Oprah Winfrey, it was claimed Friday.
“Steely” Kate’s involvement in pressing “home” the case for using the phrase is revealed in a new chapter of the paperback version of Valentine Low’s bestselling book Courtiers, excerpted Friday in the London Times. Low is also the royal correspondent for the Times.
