Bombshell biography claims Meghan Markle used charity trip to Rwanda as backdrop for fashion shoot

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may be on fire over the buzz surrounding Tom Bower's new biography Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors published July 21 in the UK, which has caused its fair share of controversy. 

In his new book, Bower details that the Duchess of Sussex, 40, was invited on a trip to Rwanda in January 2016 by World Vision Canada in which she would be part of a short film to promote the nonprofit's work building water wells in the African country.

According to Bower, Markle "used the charity trip to Rwanda as a backdrop for a fashion shoot" after bringing "suitcases of clothes" and "insisting" she could take a Canadian photographer with her, the explosive biography claims.

Bower claims that the producer who was supposed to shoot the trip, Brenda Surminski, was unable to travel to Rwanda and that Meghan, who flew to the African country first class, insisted on being accompanied by fashion photographer Gabor Jurina and her own hairdresser and makeup artist. 

According to Bower, Meghan "disappeared" with Jurina to take photos with some youngsters after filming the children playing with a tap. However, the biographer admits to having spoken to people who were not close to Markel in his book, as summarized by the Daily Mail. 

"For hours, Jurina photographed the perfectly coiffured actress hugging, squeezing, and smiling at village children," the author explained, adding that Surminksi felt the Duchess was "on a path with visions of something good happening at the end, but her destination was unknown." 

Jurina would later post the fashion photographs on her website, while Markle, on her website, The Tig, spoke of her time in Rwanda, where she volunteered at a refugee camp.

"At the end, Surminski was puzzled," Bower wrote. "Celebrities using a desolate African village as the backdrop for a fashion shoot was 'mind-blowing,” he added.

According to the Daily Mail, Markle later described her trip to Rwanda in an emotional blog post saying she, "volunteered in a camp" while explaining how she divided her time "between Hollywood and 'humanitarian work.’” 

“My life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets. I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist,” Markle wrote in The Tig, according to Daily Mail. 

“Guiding my heart though the swinging pendulum from excess to lack of access is sometimes challenging,” she also wrote on the Tig at the time. 

In the book, Bower describes Meghan as a "woke" killjoy socially and “overly demanding” in her work, while Harry is described as having “contempt” for Prince Willian and Kate Middleton, according to Newsweek.