The alleged rift between Megan Markle and former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful goes deeper than him reportedly being unable to accommodate her for a cover in 2022, we hear.
The former royal gave the style maven an impossible listing of demands, and even tried to additionally enchantment to US Vogue’s Anna Wintour, a supply tells Page Six.
The Daily Mail reported this week that Markle and Enniful had plans for a UK Vogue September 2022 situation that would come with Markle’s keynote look on the One Young World Summit in Manchester, and “involved extensive features across the magazine and its digital editions.”
The outlet reported that Markle needed the cover, however Enniful already had a star, Linda Evangelista, booked — causing Markle to pull the plug and causing a falling out between the previous pals.
But we hear scheduling wasn’t the one purpose the cover by no means materialized.
A supply tells us Markle needed a “global cover,” showing on the covers of UK and US Vogue concurrently, together with an inventory of demands.
“Meghan asked for control over [the] photographer, writer, final edit, photos, cover lines, and wanted a global issue,” says a supply.
We hear there was no approach any editor would agree.
“Nobody gets that. Not even Beyoncé,” says the supply.
We hear Markle even arrange a private Zoom name with Wintour with the intention to try to pitch her on the concept.
“Anna wasn’t interested,” says the supply, including the magazine already had its personal cover star, Serena Williams.
While Markle was not within the operating, the supply tells us: “Meghan asked for a Zoom with her to reconsider, and Anna did it to be polite.”
Adele is the one celeb to seem on each US and UK covers concurrently for the November 2021 points.
However, one other supply insisted that Markle by no means sought a cover from Vogue, and that the magazine had truly approached her a number of instances after her wedding ceremony to Prince Harry.
Enninful had beforehand requested Markle to be on the cover of British Vogue’s 2019 “Forces for Change” situation, however she selected to visitor edit as an alternative, the supply stated.
Markle did wind up getting a September 2022 cover, on the time she was selling her now failed “Archetypes” podcast.
She appeared on the digital cover of New York journal’s the Cut, which additionally featured one other digital cover with Megan Thee Stallion.
She was additionally slated to seem on the cover of Variety that month, but it surely was held a month after Queen Elizabeth II handed away.
Sources instructed Daily Mail that Markle and Enninful — who give up British Vogue in February — are not on talking phrases.
“The duchess and her team had high expectations and 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,” an insider stated.
“Edward was furious to have lost the project, as were the powers that be at Condé Nast,” stated the supply.
“The whole process became very difficult. Edward could only promise her a big showy feature inside the magazine and online — but she turned it down,” they added.
Despite the claims, Page Six has additionally heard that the relationship between Markle and Enninful has “remained warm and respectful” through the years, with the pair exchanging birthday needs and flowers.
