Is Kate Middleton Pushing Aid on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Claims She’s Now not a Hugger?

Kate Middleton is on a hugging spree.

The Princess of Wales, 41, became once fleet to embody some acquainted faces throughout royal engagements this week. While congratulating Captain Preet Chandi on her file-breaking expedition in Antarctica throughout a college talk over with on Wednesday, Kate greeted the explorer with a huge hug. But every other candy 2nd got here on Thursday throughout Princess Kate and Prince William’s talk over with to Cornwall, when she reunited with one of her passe lecturers.

Though Meghan Markle said within the Netflix point to Harry & Meghan, which premiered in December, that she became once stunned by Kate and Prince William’s formality at the motivate of closed doorways, a buddy of the Princess of Wales currently told PEOPLE that the royal is extremely affectionate.

“Kate’s a huge hugger,” the buddy said. “She is heat and friendly and greets all people with a huge hug and kiss. It comes naturally to her to be cherish that.”

Recalling the first time that Meghan met Kate, the Duchess of Sussex said on Netflix point to that she became once “in ripped jeans and barefoot” when Prince William and Kate got here over for dinner.

“Love I became once a hugger, constantly been a hugger,” Meghan, 41, said. “I did no longer realize that that is in actuality jarring for more than a couple of Brits.”

“I guess I could perchance well well originate to achieve very rapidly that the formality on the out of doorways, carried thru on the inner,” she added. “There is a forward-facing come of being and then you end the door and also you level-headed down now. But that formality carries over on either facet. And that became once frightening to me.”

Princess Kate and the remainder of the royal family like publicly kept easy within the wake of Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, despite the jarring allegations made, from Prince William’s alleged bodily assault on his younger brother to detrimental press leaks inner the family. The Duke of Sussex, 38, portrayed his sister-in-legislation as cool in the direction of him and his essential other within the book and surrounding interviews.

In a chat with ITV’s Tom Bradby, Prince Harry recalled how Prince William, 40, and Kate reacted to his relationship with Meghan, 41 — an American actress who became once divorced and biracial.

“About a of the issues that my brother and sister-in-legislation — one of the most important come that they were appearing or behaving positively felt to me as if, unfortunately, that stereotyping became once causing rather of a barrier to them in actuality kind of, , introducing or welcoming her in,” Harry said.

A family buddy tells PEOPLE on this week’s conceal narrative that Kate is “no disquieted violet” despite staying restful referring to the claims.

“She is a tough lady. It’s beautiful that William has Kate by his facet to rely on, as she is an exact stalwart thru this,” the buddy says.

But every other buddy tells PEOPLE, “So powerful has been said that at this stage, I contemplate they correct favor to switch on. The general field is extraordinarily sad, nonetheless or no longer it’s industry as fashioned, and he or she’s getting on with the job because that’s what she does.”

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Royal correspondent Valentine Low, author of Courtiers, says there is a handy reason the royals are no longer commenting on Harry’s book.

“They did no longer favor to maneuver up the rift and the dispute,” says Low. “They know that the relaxation said in a press release or a briefing would lengthen it. They wanted it to cool down as quickly as conceivable. The longer it goes on, the much less hope there is for reconciliation.”