When photos of Prince Harry and Meghan Sussex briefly appeared on Kris Jenner’s Instagram after her 70th birthday party, they vanished within hours. That was all it took for parts of the media to declare a Hollywood snub, a tantrum, or a private feud. The story spread fast and stuck, despite lacking evidence. Now, Kim Kardashian has publicly explained what actually happened, and her account dismantles the narrative that tabloids rushed to sell.
What unfolded was timing, respect, and a decision made after the fact.
How a Birthday Photo Became a Tabloid Frenzy
The images showed Prince Harry and Meghan Sussex, at Kris Jenner’s James Bond-themed birthday party in Beverly Hills. Within minutes of the posts disappearing, headlines framed the removal as deliberate shade. Some outlets claimed Meghan demanded the photos be deleted. Others suggested the couple had broken social rules or embarrassed the host.
Those claims ignored basic context. The party took place during Remembrance weekend in the UK. Once the images went live, the hosts realised how it could look to British audiences. That awareness triggered a reassessment, not a confrontation. Yet tabloids ran with the most inflammatory version because it fit a familiar script.
The idea that Meghan and Harry were unwelcome spread because it always does. Deleted posts get treated as a confession rather than a caution. In this case, speculation arrived long before facts.
Kim Kardashian Explains What Really Happened
On her podcast, Kim Kardashian addressed the situation directly. She said the photos were shared with permission. She also made clear that her family never posts images without consent. That point alone undercuts months of reporting.
Kim explained that once they realised the timing clashed with Remembrance Day, the posts came down out of respect. No one was upset. No one made demands. The decision reflected awareness, not tension. She added that Harry and Meghan had attended a charity event earlier that same day, which made the contrast sharper once party images circulated.
Her frustration focused on how quickly an innocent moment became something else. She described the backlash as crazy and unnecessary. She even joked that they should have leaned into the absurdity because the reaction bore no relation to reality.
This was a clear explanation from someone who was there.
“We never post without permission. That’s not who we are. We were told it was totally fine to post the photo. After it went up, we realised it was Remembrance Day, and they didn’t want to be seen at a party. So we took it down out of respect. It was innocent, and it was turned into something crazy and ridiculous that didn’t have to be.” – Kim Kardashian
Why Meghan Always Gets the Blame
The speed with which blame landed on Meghan followed a pattern. Critics accuse Meghan of control when posts vanish. Her decision not to respond then gets framed as guilt. Support from powerful women is twisted into calculation.
Kris Jenner has never behaved like someone nursing resentment. Kris Jenner has liked and reshared Meghan’s Harper’s Bazaar content. She has also promoted Meghan’s Netflix work. That public warmth has remained consistent and unqualified. Those actions matter more than anonymous quotes ever could.
The reaction also exposed the selective outrage critics had by attacking Harry for attending a birthday party during Remembrance weekend, while ignoring similar absences by other royals at commemorations. That inconsistency highlights how judgment shifts depending on the subject.
What unsettles critics is not etiquette. It is access. Meghan moves comfortably among women who control global brands and cultural reach. The Kardashian-Jenner family understands power because they built it. Meghan understands it because she reclaimed it.
This episode did not reveal conflict. It revealed how quickly the media reaches for the same story when given half a chance.
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Final Thoughts
Kim Kardashian’s account shows that the original reporting was wrong. The photos were shared with permission. They were removed for timing, not drama. There was no feud, no fit, and no snub between the Kardashians and the Sussexes. The facts may have arrived late; however, the explanation came straight from the source, and it leaves little room for doubt.
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My question is, why did it take anyone from the K family so incredibly long to set the record straight??
I’m sorry but I don’t think this a good end to the situation? The media had tired itself outself blaming Meghan or saying there was a falling out and Kim has revived this corpse and given them new negative angles. The media were only ever being opportunistic by implying that Meghan was ‘in the wrong’ for falling out with Jenner because generally the tabloid audience dislike them both? It really wasn’t a big thing for Meghan to have to prove them wrong about almost 3 months later? Being Kris’ friend and being her enemy are both ‘bad’ I’m afraid to say. Incidentally the same is true for Jessica Mulroney but I do count the recent clarification about that, handled how this should have been handled (confirmed they get on and nothing else), as a win because we won’t get the endless baiting about Mulroney dragging Meghan in public.
The Sussexes made mistake(s) which Kim has stuck a lampshade on when nobody was thinking about them. She did it first and foremost so her sister’s show had content and second, because it’s apparently incredibly hard for people to judge the right path to chart when dealing with the Chinese fingertrap of hostile British media (where radical honestly and sincerity draw you further in and are used against you and for the profit of others).
All Kim would have said, had she been a better acquaintance, or better at this, was “It was all a misunderstanding and Meghan is good friends with Kris” instead, this is what she said
(A) They didn’t want anyone to know they went to a party on Remembrance “Weekend’*
(B) They made things worse by not doing what Kim would have advised which was to laugh the whole thing off
(A) is a problem because it confirms they are not living life ‘not playing the Prove It game’ but do in fact accept that they should not do things California Time which coincide with something UK Time even if is has zero significance outside the UK or royal circles. I really felt it reasonable for them not to have to take that into account but if now we are saying they should and do? They probably should try not to make mistakes with it and should remember that sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime. If you think you shouldn’t go to a party on a particular weekend then don’t go to a party? Don’t instead try to prevent the photos being published. That’s worse. Even worse if they still get published… even worse if after they get taken down there are pictures of you going into the party anyway from outside? The biggest story of Charles’ coronation was Meghan going for hike 3 days earlier– the British media will always try and juxtapose imagery and claim ‘overshadowing ‘, they would almost certainly had some other ‘frivolous ‘ pics to run even if there had been no party?
(B) is a problem because it still hints at friction – this time with Kim
The Sussexes are still the good guys here, that doesn’t change. Obviously it would just be better if things were not this way. As horrible as it is, and with mixed metaphors abounding, I hope the media circus will begin to move on now, not because they were defeated (although I hope the Sussexes beat the Mail again… I have a Byline Times Patreon sub purely to help fund their investigations into Associated so I’m quite invested in that) but because the bully got bored and found someone else (Nicola Peltz Beckham it seems) which from my memories of school is what usually ends bullying- not fighting back or showing that you don’t care. It’s like The Ring or It Follows – you can’t defeat the curse, you only get rid of it by passing it on. Certainly that is what Camilla and Kate did to Meghan…
(*)Lived in the UK most of my life and never heard of ‘Remembrance Weekend’. The 11th November and the Sunday that precede it- that’s what I am aware of? It’s very much a choice to say the solemnity must be observed the whole weekend, if anything observance should be winding down as WW2 passes out of living memory… if you think I’m wrong, ask any British person when the last time the observed the victory at Waterloo…What was actually commemorated that weekend, on the website of the UK’s biggest newspaper, were Kate, her kids and the other royals by which I mean to say its surviving as a Royal PR showcase not anything to do with recognition of military sacrifice…