I'm ashamed of myself for reading this tripe but oh, it's so much fun to hate on her

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Daily Mail: In 2016, while she was still a struggling B-List actress, Meghan Markle turned an African charity jaunt into a fashion shoot.

  • Meghan Markle, 40, travelled to Rwanda in 2016 with World Vision Canada

  • Biography claims she 'insisted' on going with fashion photographer Gabor Jurina

  • Duchess also took a hair and makeup artist and 'several suitcases of clothes'

  • Tom Bower claims Meghan 'disappeared with Jurina' to take photos with kids

  • Said Jurina 'spent hours photographing the perfectly coiffured actress'

  • Film producer Brenda Surminski was 'puzzled', with Bower writing: 'Celebs using a desolate African village as the backdrop for a fashion shoot was 'mind-blowing'

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.

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. 

Bower claims Meghan flew to Rwanda first class, was accompanied by fashion photographer Gabor Jurina and had her own hair and makeup artist.

Bower wrote that after filming with the children playing with clean water, Meghan 'disappeared' with the fashion photographer. 

'For hours, Jurina photographed the perfectly coiffuered actress hugging, squeezing and smiling at village children.'

Jurina  would later post the fashion photographs on his website, with Bower noting how eight months later, they would be 'more valuable.' 

Writing on her website The Tig at the time, she discussed her time in Rwanda where she volunteered at a refugee camp.

“My life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist.

'I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches – I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works. And this type of work is what feeds my soul, and fuels my purpose.' 

Is any of this true? Who cares? I read this crap for the fun of it. But it certainly sounds like the pseudo-princess we’ve come to know and despise.