Meghan Markle brought a
‘suitcases of clothes’ and ‘insisted’ she could bring a Canadian photographer
with her to Rwanda, an explosive biography has claimed.
Writing in his new book
Revenge, Tom Bower detailed how the Duchess of Sussex, 40, was invited on
the trip in January 2016 by World Vision Canada to be part of a film
to promote the charity’s work building water wells in the African country.
However, Bower claims Meghan
flew to Rwanda first class, was accompanied by fashion photographer
Gabor Jurina and had her own hair and makeup artist.
Brenda Surminski, a producer
who had been due to film the trip, could no longer travel to Rwanda and a
Canadian camera man joined the group instead.
However, Bower, who admits to
speaking to people who were not close to Meghan for his book, claims that after
filming with the children playing with a water tap, Meghan ‘disappeared’ with
Jurina to take photographs with some of the youngsters.
He penned: ‘At the end,
Surminski was puzzled. Celebrities using a desolate African village as the
backdrop for a fashion shoot was ‘mind-blowing.’
The Duchess of Sussex hasn’t
commented on the claims in the book.
According to Bower, the
connection between the Duchess and the charity came through advertising agency
KBS, after Matt Hassell, the creative director in Toronto, suggested she would
be ‘ideal’ to promote WVC.
He wrote that Surminski only
spoke to Meghan for ’30 minutes’ before the actress agreed to promote the
project building water wells in destitute villages.
