Meghan Markle used to be suspected of having an affair with a pinnacle golfer after allegedly being caught “flirting”, a new book has claimed.
Meghan Markle flirted so challenging with Rory McIlroy that her boyfriend demanded to be aware of whether she had cheated on him with the champion golfer, a new book claims.
McIlroy, now 33, first met Markle, now 40, after he “unexpectedly” nominated her for the Ice Bucket Challenge — and she insisted he come to her friend’s condominium in New York City to dump the ice on her himself, Page Six reports.
The August 2014 encounter came simply weeks after the Northern Irishman, then 25, received the Open Championship in Britain, Tom Bower writes in his new book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, which used to be launched in the UK this week.
“McIlroy had just cut up from his blonde fiancee, Danish tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki, and used to be stated to be chasing brunettes,” Bower writes.





After McIlroy and Markle posted the Ice Bucket Challenge video, which raised cash for motor neurone ailment research, they enjoyed a drink at the Fitzpatrick Hotel, where the sportsman used to be staying.
They were noticed by means of the hotel’s owner, John Fitzpatrick, who invited them to be part of him at dinner with 20 friends at Cipriani that night.
“The following morning, McIlroy arrived [at Ridgewood Country Club] 30 miles away to play in a new competition. Worse for wear after a demanding night, he fell returned to 101st place,” Bower writes.
“Nevertheless, he refused to sleep as standard near the golf direction to be prepared the following day. Instead, he drove lower back to New York to see Meghan. His performance suffered.
“I wasn’t pretty on my game,” he confessed later. “I was playing myself.”
Back home in Toronto at the cease of the week with her boyfriend, chef Cory Vitiello, Markle gushed about the sports activities famous person on her now-defunct blog, “The Tig.”
“Ah yes. Rory McIlroy. THE Rory McIlroy. Whispered (and shouted) to be the main golfer in the world, loved by means of Tiger, respected with the aid of Palmer, and dumper of frigid water on to my lone head for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. That Rory McIlroy.



“He is a pressure who has the propensity to really work tough and play hard — relishing excessive practices to substantiate his title, embracing nights of sipping Opus One (his bold and surprising desire of wine) and indulging in crew dinners at Cipriani — for the balance, of course.
“And yet, beyond his work/play ethic, the most endearing pleasant of this man is his character – as real and honest as they come, appreciating a simple smile, in no way shunning a fan photo, enjoying a plate of pasta with veal ragu, and expressing a love for his parents that is hardly ever considered in guys his age. Or at any age, to be honest. He is not simply the real deal … he is real. And perhaps that is what makes him even greater cherished.”
Bower writes that Markle, then starring on Suits, was once “keen to use their shut relationship to promote herself,” adding: “She motivated the media to put up photos of McIlroy and herself. As she would later admit, she ‘occasionally set up a paparazzi image or let information slip out to the press.’”



Asked by means of Vitiello whether she used to be having a relationship with McIlroy, Markle insisted their time collectively was once innocent, Bower writes. “He believed her.”
That same year, Markle used connections to snag a speaking slot at the One Young World convention in Dublin, Bower writes.
“Excited about her trip, she posted a message to an Irish buddy of McIlroy: ‘Lock something down. I head out there October 14-17. Have a wonderful night X MM,’” Bower writes.



Markle and her boyfriend flew in from Toronto in a Netjet paid for by McIlroy, sources instructed Bower.
On October 17, Markle and McIlroy had dinner at swanky Dublin restaurant Fade Street Social. “She was spotted looking ‘smitten’, observing intently at McIlroy,” through a newspaper gossip columnist, and Vitiello was once annoyed.
“Again he challenged Meghan. ‘Had there been an affair?’” he asked angrily.
Emphatically, Meghan denied that she had betrayed him, Bower writes. She stated she and McIlroy were simply buddies and “once greater he believed her.”
Markle’s agent referred to as the newspaper for a correction and the following day, it printed a story about Markle and Vitiello, saying, “They’re madly in love … The two of them were sewn at the hip the complete time they spent in Ireland.”
Meghan was once “relieved,” Bower concludes. “The golfer was once not her future, and Cory used to be still her Toronto facilitator.”

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