Meghan Markle’s first maid of honour from wedding to Trevor Engelson revealed how she made a crucial decision that ended her lifelong friendship with the ‘very calculated’ royal

Meghan Markle has become somewhat known for ditching friends… Jessica Mulroney, David and Victoria Beckham and her Suits co-stars to name a few.

The Duchess of Sussex’s name has even been used in the Urban Dictionary – an online lexicon of slang – to describe ‘abandoning someone or something after they’ve contributed to your life in a meaningful way’, with the action cruelly labelled ‘Markled’.

Most famously ‘Markled’ has been her father Thomas, 79, after he sold paparazzi pictures of himself preparing for his daughter’s wedding.

Even stylist Jessica Mulroney, Meghan’s one-time ‘Best Friend Forever’, whose children were included in the Sussexes’ wedding party, has fallen by the wayside.

Ever since Jessica became embroiled in a racism row with a social media influencer in 2020, she has not been photographed in public with Meghan.

But she’s not the only BFF to have had a rift with the Duchess of Sussex; Prince Harry’s wife and her childhood best friend Ninaki Priddy reportedly fell out over Meghan’s treatment of her first husband Trevor Engelson.

Ninaki was maid of honour at Meghan’s first wedding in 2011 in Jamaica, and the two had been inseparable from their first days at Hollywood’s private Little Red School House, when aged two.

They then moved on together at 11 to the Immaculate Heart girls’ high school in Los Angeles, with their extraordinary sisterly bond eventually spanning 31 years.

But the pair decided to go their separate ways after Ninaki disapproved of the manner of Meghan’s break-up from Trevor.

The Duchess reportedly began dating dashing celebrity chef Cory Vitiello who also lives in Toronto, in 2014, a few months after her separation from Trevor.

‘I tried to get details from her, but she wouldn’t tell me,’ Ninaki told The Daily Mail in 2017. ‘What came to light after Trevor and I spoke ended my friendship with Meghan. I think everybody who knew them both was in shock.’

Ninaki explained how she’d chatted to Trevor a month after the divorce in 2013 and insisted he ‘would have walked the earth to make their marriage work’.

Meghan was based in Toronto filming the popular US legal drama Suits, while film producer Trevor lived in LA during their marriage.

‘I don’t believe she gave him enough of an opportunity. I think there was an element of “out of sight, out of mind” for Meghan,’ said Ninaki.

‘The way she handled it, Trevor definitely had the rug pulled out from under him. He was hurt.’

Ninaki shared how there was ‘Meghan Before Fame and Meghan After Fame’, with the then actress ‘turning down lunch with us because she said she’d be recognised’ after just two seasons of Suits.

She said: ‘Maybe she had started to change before then, but I was refusing to see it. The tone of her voice, her mannerisms, the way she laughed didn’t seem real to me any more.

‘… I felt if I questioned her behaviour, I’d be left on the outside. Sometimes the truth is not always what you want, is it?